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Disciplinary ‘Redlining’ Is Not Decolonization

A white professor of BIPOC history reflects on a disturbing development—a refusal to grant credit to scholars whose phenotype matches that of historical oppressors.

USC Faces Investigation Over Alleged Student Harassment

The Office for Civil Rights will investigate whether USC failed to protect a Jewish student from discrimination and harassment because of her support for Israel.

Harvard and UNC Cases to Be Heard Separately

The Supreme Court, which had combined the cases of affirmative action, separates them. Justice Jackson can now participate in UNC case.

A University’s Attempt to Give Back Meets Local Resistance

Fairfield University’s Bellarmine College, designed to give low-income students in neighboring Bridgeport an affordable education, faces pushback from some residents.
Opinion

The Meaning of Juneteenth for Higher Ed

Following on his university’s first Juneteenth celebration, Thomas A. Parham reflects on how higher education can make substantive change to support Black excellence.

Parallel Journeys, Lasting Legacies

Gary May, Darryll Pines and Reggie DesRoches first met at the UC Berkeley College of Engineering in the 1980s. Now they all head up large research universities—and remain close friends.
Opinion

Let’s Talk About Race and Academic Integrity

Race has been missing from conversations around academic integrity even though the issue is racialized through and through, Antar A. Tichavakunda writes.

A ‘Period of Collective Racial Trauma’

Asian students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison are calling for more protection after an international student from China was beaten in downtown Madison.