Diversity

Public institutions vow to tackle inequality at conference

Parties must wait for a ruling on affirmative action policies, with a Supreme Court judgment likely years away

Scientific excellence must mean more than ‘how good someone is with a round-bottom flask’, conference hears

Academics should not be afraid to challenge the wisdom of requiring institutions to make financial amends for their past links to slavery, says Robert Dingwall

If he had chosen to pursue the biggest factor in Harvard’s admissions discrimination – preferences for the white and wealthy – Michael Wang would have faced obstacles from alumni and the law alike

Win or lose, Harvard may need to ask whether pursuing its affirmative action case all the way to the Supreme Court is in the best overall interest of US higher education

Lawsuit by an Asian-American student challenging rejection reveals white students, not black applicants, to be the advantaged party

Royal Historical Society report warns dynamism of discipline risks being stifled by lack of diversity

Claims that the UK’s counterterrorism strategy targets Muslims and harms free speech are ‘nonsense’, says Prevent coordinator Chris Sybenga

Report says non-white students will represent 73 per cent of undergraduates by end of next decade

Senior leaders must lead the charge in changing higher education’s structural disadvantages for black and minority ethnic staff and students, say Kalwant Bhopal and Sally Hunt

Conservative anger at initiatives to make campuses more inclusive to minority students is misplaced, say Kevin Singer, Laura Dahl, Matthew J. Mayhew and Alyssa N. Rockenbach

‘People who have been around at a university for a while assume they know everything…but actually they need to be educated themselves,’ says project leader

Results of Social Mobility Employer Index suggests dominance of Russell Group is being slowly eroded

Experts see shift towards international approach in granting of greater autonomy to handful of leading universities

Removal of guidelines on affirmative action and retirement of Supreme Court justice could ‘set the stage for future challenges’ to university admission policies

Independent study will examine why more institutions have not joined initiative

Open prejudice against his sexuality has seen the career of one academic slowly wither

The former gay porn star turned academic on what lecturers can learn from the adult entertainment industry

Schemes asking us to transform our workplaces in the name of equality, diversity and inclusivity are failing. It’s time to hold our institutions to account, says Rebecca Harrison

Women and their clothing are scrutinised more closely because men are seen as the norm in academia. Emma Rees considers the codes at play in what is supposedly a radical space

The ‘leaky pipeline’ metaphor for the lack of women at senior levels of academia can demotivate those whose professional paths meander, says Aileen Fyfe

Elizabeth Cannon on why Canada's HE sector still has some work to do to achieve true diversity, and how universities are approaching this problem

Universities must go well beyond boilerplate statements about being a 'welcoming environment' if they really want to treat all their students equally, says Sarah Kollat

To mark International Women’s Day, academics and administrators reflect on leadership challenges

Duke University’s Valerie Ashby says institutions must be more ‘intentional’ about finding ethnic minority PhD candidates

Rachel Moss on why academic women might find maternity leave a sometimes challenging experience

By some measures, universities are wonderfully accommodating workplaces for gays and lesbians. Six academics give us their perspective

Kieran Fenby-Hulse asks whether being gay limits opportunities for researchers