Race & Ethnicity

Journalists and scholars regularly mischaracterize legislation against critical race theory, wrongly implying that discomfort-creating lessons are illegal, Peter Minowitz writes.

Study finds large advantages for Black and Latinx applicants to Harvard and University of North Carolina. Is it valid? Will this sway the Supreme Court?

New study suggests that top colleges perhaps used to discriminate against Asian Americans, but they may have abandoned the practice.

Plans to restructure the Office of Equity and Inclusion created confusion at Point Park University. Rather than close the office, officials say they plan to reshape it to better meet student needs.

Saint Vincent College adopts new rules after many found speaker’s remarks at conference sponsored by college to be racist.

Kerri Shook shares lessons from her research into student perceptions of institutional efforts to recruit racially and ethnically diverse students.

California State University, Fullerton, sought to make students feel less defeated about being placed on academic probation, so administrators banished “probation” from the institution’s official lexicon.

Coalitions of companies, colleges and research groups, funded by Gates, will develop digital courses especially aimed at improving learning outcomes for underrepresented students in gateway statistics and chemistry courses.