Diversity

As a metaphor, the cartoon character provides perhaps rather surprising insight into how underrepresented students can experience college, writes Denise Anthony.

By Denise Anthony

A trend that started in high schools -- using the candidate's name to insult groups of students -- has spread to higher education. Experts expect the national political divisiveness to extend to campuses.

Losing a faculty member always hurts, but many administrators believe they have little control over whether professors move on. A new effort seeks to provide meaningful data.

U of North Florida will pay $1.25 million to a former women's basketball coach who said the university discriminated against female athletes and coaches.

Students are demanding that colleges provide tampons and other menstruation products at no cost, and some institutions are starting to listen.

Study finds students are more likely to use certain words of praise when describing professors who are men or who are in fields with few female and black scholars.

Overspending or chronically underfunded? Students and faculty at San Francisco State's College of Ethnic Studies say it already struggles to pay basic bills, but the university wants it to rein in spending.