Diversity

OCR issues new guidance that clear way for investigating some cases of transgender bias, but advocates for transgender students say the document is inadequate.

To distress of advocates, Education Department tells civil rights investigators to focus on individual complaints -- and not automatically go beyond them -- in looking for history of discrimination at institutions.

A dispute about a sociology test question on slave families ended in a lecturer's termination this spring at the University of Tennessee.

Colorado chancellor suspended 10 days for not telling authorities of allegations of domestic violence by assistant coach. Athletics director, head coach ordered to each pay $100,000.

A student at SMU said she was unfairly suspended for putting up fliers to respond to racist posters on campus.

Many find her claim about “unsettled law” to be dubious and an abdication of her agency's civil rights responsibilities.

Many experts on admissions and campus race relations say the university did the right thing.

New study of faculty members with mental health issues finds they disclose conditions selectively to trusted colleagues but are less trusting of and have worse reactions from staff members whose job it is to help them.