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Paulette Granberry Russell, a Black woman with short dark hair, wearing a white turtleneck under a patterned jacket, speaks at a podium.

Diversity

A Tumultuous 5 Years Leading the Nation’s Diversity Officers

Paulette Granberry Russell ran the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education through high highs and low lows. She says diversity work isn’t dead—it’s evolving.

A Black engineering teacher shows a Black student a model.

Diversity Race & Ethnicity

Closing Equity Gaps in Career and Technical Education

A recent research brief explores how to improve career and technical education for Black students. Experts say the programs’ federal funding and data collection practices could be improved.

Quick Takes

Ed Dept. Calls Civil Rights Workers It’s Trying to Ax Back to Work

The Education Department is calling Office for Civil Rights employees who were fired earlier this year back to work. The...

Edward Blum leaves the U.S. Supreme Court after oral arguments in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina. He is a white man with gray hair wearing a business suit, walking down the white marble stairs of the Supreme Court building.

Students Financial Aid

Lawsuit Accuses Hispanic Scholarship Fund of Discrimination

A group created by the founder of Students for Fair Admissions argues a large nonprofit aid program is illegally restricted to Latinos. At issue are “contracts.”

An illustration of a person building a makeshift red bridge over a cliff gap, with two people behind him carrying supplies.

Opinion

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In Praise of Being First-Gen

We should not retire the label; we should reclaim and revere it.

By Ed Smith-Lewis

President Harry S. Truman in front of a picture of the U.S. Capitol building and two groups of people. One group is arranging food and the other is picking up trash on a beach.

Students Financial Aid

House GOP Accuses Truman Scholarship of Liberal Bias as Dems Talk College Costs

Republicans held a hearing airing accusations that the prestigious program heavily favors left-leaning candidates. No one from the scholarship foundation was invited.

Denny Chimes and the University of Alabama's quadrangle is seen from the steps of the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Students Free Speech

Citing Anti-DEI DOJ Memo, Alabama Ends Black-, Women-Focused Student Magazines

The university pointed to a July Department of Justice memo that warned against “unlawful proxies” for race or sex. It’s another example of administrators restricting student media.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in front of campus shots of Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University and University of Southern California.

Diversity

Universities May Lose State Dept. Partnership Due to Trump’s Anti-DEI Crusade

An unfinalized list shows 38 institutions would be kicked out of a State Department program over alleged diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices, The Guardian reported. The department won’t elaborate beyond saying it’s following the “President’s agenda.”