Diversity

Women and minority administrators are paid less than others and disproportionately occupy lower-level roles, a new report finds. Experts are divided over whether the current pandemic will close the gaps or throw them open wider.

Study finds that when states ban affirmative action, their numbers of underrepresented minority students go down, for the long run.

Students with disabilities and their advocates say access to equitable education has been abandoned in the scramble to move classes online.

Scholars with expertise in Asian American studies, public health and other fields have a new urgent agenda for their teaching, research and outreach: confronting coronavirus-related racism.

The coronavirus pandemic is presenting barriers to conducting "prompt and equitable" investigations of sexual misconduct on college campuses, as required by law. College administrators weigh whether to continue investigations or put things on hold.

They now face the challenge of teaching via modes and methods that they have largely spurned, Douglas A. Hicks writes.

We need support to manage this transition, writes Vicki L. Baker, who offers institutions some suggestions for how to begin.