Despite years of government desegregation efforts and the proven benefits of integrated schools, our recently published research shows that U.S. school segregation is higher than it has been in decades, even if there are no longer overt laws requiring racially segregated schools. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Monday accused the Israel boycott movement BDS of anti-Semitism.By Andrew Kreighbaum. A brief released Monday in the journal Education Researcher finds that racial differences in student borrowing have diverged over the past two decades. Since 2000, Hispanic students have been less likely and black students more likely to borrow than white students, the brief finds. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. A new analysis from Pew Research Center says that while racial and ethnic diversity has increased among U.S. college faculty over the past two decades, professors are still much more likely than their students to be white. In 2017, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics and looked at by Pew, 76 percent of all college and university faculty members were white, compared to 55 percent of undergraduates. By ethnic group, just 5 percent of faculty members were Hispanic, compared to 20 percent of students. Six percent of professors were black, compared to 14 percent of their students. Asians were the exception, making up 11 percent of professors and 7 percent of students. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Johns Hopkins fires professor over clash with student protesters, but he says he has no remorse for either the attack or being a "white male." More...By Colleen Flaherty. Members of the Society for the Study of Social Problems introduced a resolution calling for the boycott of “complicit Israeli academic institutions” at its annual meeting in New York this month. The resolution, which ultimately failed, sought to “foster support for our Palestinian academic colleagues, whose basic human rights, including the right to education and academic freedom, have been denied for decades under Israel’s military occupation and racist policies,” supporters said in a statement. More...
By Nick Hazelrigg. Questionnaires that made fascist and white supremacist references were found inside a book about the history of fascism in the Northeastern University library. According to a report from The Boston Globe, the pamphlet was titled "Northeastern University European Resistance" and asked applicants to indicate areas of interest that included topics such as "international Jewry" and "white genocide." One questionnaire with answers filled in featured the word "infiltrated" next to mentions of on-campus LGBTQ and leftist groups. More...
By Nick Hazelrigg. The University of California, Santa Cruz has removed a bell that once marked the 18th century Roman Catholic missions in the area after Native American said the bell represented racism, according to a report from The Associated Press. More...
By Nick Hazelrigg. Twenty-eight state legislators in Idaho have signed a letter urging Boise State University to abandon certain diversity and inclusion initiatives on campus. According to the Idaho Statesman,the letter, signed by only Republicans, said that certain programs divided and segregated students and racked up high costs for the university. Specific programs pointed to in the letter included graduation events for black and LGBT students. More...
By Nick Hazelrigg. A Michigan State University professor who was sued by students over what they said were abusive labor practices has filed a lawsuit of his own saying the university discriminated against him because he has epilepsy and is Iranian. More...
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