Diversity

Barring an appeal to Ohio’s Supreme Court, Oberlin College will have to pay out $31 million for supporting false claims that a local bakery discriminated against students of color.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will soon require diversity-contribution statements from all faculty members for tenure and promotion.

Twenty-eight percent of academic women surveyed by Gallup say they’ve been passed over for promotion or advancement opportunities due to their gender. That’s a bigger share than female workers in the U.S. in general.

After a year of contentious discussions and debates, University of Richmond leaders decided to remove the names of controversial figures from six campus buildings.

Russia’s war against Ukraine has created financial uncertainty for students from both countries. Colleges are scrambling to help, while donors are more sympathetic to the Ukrainians.

State anti-LGBTQ+ bills mostly target K-12 students, but the hate they engender seeps into campus life, creating stress and anxiety for LGBTQ+ students—and spurring them and their allies into action.

NACAC releases report that asks why admissions remains largely white.

An Indigenous scholar alleges that she suffered her supervisor’s abuse for years, only to face retaliation from both him and the institution after she reported him. Little has changed since the Nassar case, she says.