Diversity

Professors seek a united faculty voice against legislative incursions into the curriculum with respect to the teaching of race.

Tens of thousands of legal restrictions limit job options for formerly incarcerated students who got college degrees and certificates in hopes of gaining a new lease on life.

The national initiative will aim to make sweeping changes to higher education over the next decade by improving credential completion and social mobility and reducing student loan debt.

University of North Carolina will create an internal unit to build and manage online programs from the system’s 17 campuses for learners largely ignored by many universities.

New federal policies will probably create challenges for everyone—students, employees and higher ed institutions alike—but institutions should take particular notice, Howard Pashman writes.

The faculty can be a major success factor in how a college deals with financial stress and should play an integral role in any decision-making process, Mark Podgainy and Kristine Southard write.

Study documents key ways that white (and sometimes Asian) students have an advantage in admissions over Black and Latinx students.

Annual Survey of Earned Doctorates shows drop in number of Ph.D.s awarded in 2020. It’s still too early to tell how COVID-19 impacted Ph.D. attainment, however.