Diversity

Brandeis has added caste identity as "a recognized and protected characteristic" in the institution's antidiscrimination policy. The move was made to address caste distinctions among students and faculty members of South Asian descent.

Alicia M. Reyes-Barriéntez shares five things she wishes she'd known when she left home to attend a predominantly white institution.

By Alicia M. Reyes-Barriéntez

Class-action lawsuits filed on behalf of women under Title IX have been part and parcel of the legal world for decades, write James Moore and Kursat Christoff Pekgoz, and now it's men's turn to band together.

By James Moore and Kursat Christoff Pekgoz

Men frame their research findings more positively than do women, finds a new study. Why does that matter, and how should science respond?

Stanford graduate students say it's unacceptable that dependent health-care premiums have increased 80 percent in a few years. Many are pushing for free health care for their kids.

A conservative Catholic college in Wyoming educates students in great books, horsemanship and other outdoors skills and bans cellphones on campus. It also turned down federal funding.

Students demand more transparency about University of Texas at Austin practices and policies on sexual misconduct by professors. At the same time, others question the continued employment of a professor not accused of or disciplined for misconduct but whose scholarship is based on controversial theories about pedophilia.

Federal appeals court ruling sets narrow standard for what institutions are expected to do when students commit sexual misconduct.