Diversity

Cardona cites cultural deficit in lamenting that billions in equity-oriented aid is failing to make a significant difference

University hopes to build more diverse faculty by enriching PhD process with skills typically acquired in prolonged postdoc slog

The academic and civil rights crusader talks about a mother who showed her how to stand up for herself and for others

Just 20 years after their very existence was uncertain, LGBTQ campus leaders now writing the book on how to learn from their personal schools of hard knocks

As loss in Harvard and UNC cases seems likely, dozens of top corporations argue in filings that they do better with diverse workforces

California continues trailblazing push with major publishers but sees fundamental cost problem still unresolved

Answering lawsuit, Biden administration agrees – for now – that native speakers can get full credit for foreign language mastery

Swinburne v-c lambasts sector for following English model, but Monash head puts international education on par with key resource exports

Difficulties defining who has indigenous heritage complicates efforts to stop some profiting from made-up affiliations

Spate of new senior roles created as universities seek answers on addressing sustainability, diversity and social responsibility

Disproportionate impact must be considered by universities when assessing performance of staff, study finds

Decades or centuries needed if progress continues at its current pace, consultancy firm concludes

Measures on student outcomes, high-quality provision and impartiality could all be wolves in sheep’s clothing, says Jennifer Hastings

While sector welcomes significant funding injection, future shape of national centre is clouded, as is much of its past efforts

Leading US public institution, six months after firing Schlissel over affair claims, gets top academic voice on equity from UBC

With SAT and ACT already losing acceptance because of inequities, GAO details cost-related struggle of students to gain needed accommodations

‘The current court has clearly shown its willingness to directly overturn past precedents in order to achieve conservative policy goals, and I don’t see why this case would be different,’ says sociologist

Having a name that takes longer to pronounce also associated with employment at a lower-ranked institution

Letter urges Baroness Hale and Lord Reed to step back from Law Quarterly Review and Criminal Law Review until diversity improved

As Pride Month draws to a close, Nick Braisby reflects on what it means to him 

Female scholars grossly under-represented on editorial boards of public health and environmental science publications, says Cambridge-led study

Shift prestigious institutions to ‘greater potential’ of education for excluded adults, says FT columnist

Australian research highlights need for more than a front-end focus on boosting diversity

Olivier-nominated actress Josette Bushell-Mingo wants to keep pushing hard questions about role of arts in society as leader of London institution

In fight to keep cities safe, some academics seen as harming urban poor by prioritising police and donors over community needs

Australia’s oldest university library adopts new protocols for acknowledgement, representation and access to indigenous material

The Princeton University president discusses the oversimplification of the free speech debate and his personal journey of discovery kicked off by his son’s school project 

Eye-popping results from Australian study warrant complete overhaul of how teaching subsidies are distributed, researchers say

Caste-focused policies spark disagreement on ‘difficult to pin down’ problem

Joshua Katz dismissed after renewed probe of sexual misconduct case

Members asked to back motion opposing ‘gender critics’ and ‘transphobes’

The vice-chancellor of McGill University reflects on her nine years leading one of Canada’s top universities as she prepares to step down

Pentagon fell short on promises to help HBCUs compete for research grants, though institutions see new motivation from foreign tensions

Olivette Otele criticises employer’s reliance on her research, saying overwork and back-stabbing led her to burnout

Minority public medical school enrolment seen down by more than third in five years in US states that banned racial considerations in admissions

University follows Cambridge in offering gifted state school students chance to take fully funded introductory year

Naviance, available to nearly half of nation’s high school students, admits years of Caucasian filtering for campuses building candidate lists

Three-year review details racism permeating history of top US institution, but some raise concern at too meagre a response

Conservative thinktank calls for creation of new study centre to address failure of universities to study radical ideologies

The president of Harvey Mudd College discusses smashing glass ceilings and how to get more women into STEM subjects 

Student body president concedes academic value, for most black students, outweighs the problems causing many faculty to leave, but calls for stronger leadership

Amid election-year debate on college costs, Biden extends pause on federal loan repayments and wipes away records of past defaults

Leading recruiter claims firms can assist universities in looking ‘beyond the obvious’

After fighting off attempt to expel them, academics resign from learned academy over ‘untoward political focus’

As debut film portrays academia as racist to the core, Mariama Diallo talks of love for her Yale experience but even tougher realities than she could show

Science committee hears evidence of ‘shocking’ levels of under-representation of ethnic minority experts at research council meetings

Reflecting nation’s angry partisan tone, admissions advisers’ association mutes online exchange, and sister group weighs shunning Texas

IRU’s pre-election manifesto for university sector also recommends adoption of the UK’s Haldane principle

Academics who did not disclose sexual orientation more likely to produce fewer papers, according to surveys

Move by historically black Paul Quinn College aims to break generational persistence of poverty

Canadian universities must also provide the resources to support students through their studies with more scholarships and bursaries, says Opiyo Oloya

No group should have exclusive ‘authority to speak’, New Zealand forum hears

The president of Northwestern University discusses the conflict between being a higher education economist and a university leader and changing career 

Annual survey of 720 campuses pegs average stockpile at $1.1 billion, up 35 per cent in year, with student aid benefiting

Todd Huston, while senior vice-president at SAT creator, led Indiana lawmakers in trying to restrict classroom teaching

The shares of female students and academics at global universities have barely changed in five years, according to THE data

The president of The New School in New York says universities are often underprepared for their first black leader

Amid support for policy shift, some professors question why South Asians are being singled out

Professor counts Asian Americans as winning 3 per cent of nation’s major biomedical prizes, prompting promises to do better

Report calls for measures on ‘ignored’ issue like more black staff working in halls of residence and other blocks