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Faculty Issues Diversity & Equity

Faculty Gender Pay Disparities Persist, Even at Vassar

Men have historically made more than women in academe—and for full professors, the gap has widened in recent years. The issue has spawned litigation at a Seven Sisters institution.

Graduates at Claflin University sit with hands raised in their graduation gowns and hats.
Institutions Minority-Serving Institutions

A Massive Investment in HBCUs’ Future

A coalition of historically Black university advocacy groups is receiving $124 million from philanthropists to dole out to institutions.

Four students, some in Coppin State University T-shirts, walk on campus.
Institutions Minority-Serving Institutions

In-State Tuition for Out-of-State HBCU Aspirants

Students who want to attend a historically Black college but have no options in their home states can attend two Maryland HBCUs and pay in-state prices starting next fall.

Quick Takes

2 Universities Claim Johns Hopkins Program Is Duplicative

University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, a historically Black university, and the University of Maryland Baltimore are contesting a proposal by...
Quick Takes

Senate Democrats Question Idaho Plan to Buy University of Phoenix

The University of Idaho should think twice about acquiring the University of Phoenix, a group of U.S. Senate Democrats warned...
Student walks in front of student services center at East Los Angeles College
Institutions Community Colleges

In California, New Debate Over an Old Funding Law

The Fifty Percent Law, enacted more than 50 years ago, requires community colleges in the state to spend at least half their budget on instruction.

A brick gateway reads "Fisk University" in large, gold letters.
Institutions Minority-Serving Institutions

‘Pay Up or Leave,’ a University Tells Students

A new policy at historically Black Fisk University requires students to pay off debts of more than $1,500, get on a payment plan or leave. Students are pushing back.

West Virginia University students protesting proposed faculty member layoffs and academic program cuts. One student holds a stick above the crowd, and another has a sign reading "Gee + BOG Need to GO."
Faculty Issues Shared Governance

WVU Faculty Overwhelmingly Votes No Confidence in Gee, Calls for Freeze in Cuts

West Virginia faculty members approved two resolutions Wednesday, condemning the university’s president along with the layoffs and cuts to academic programs that he has backed.