By Eboo Patel. I first heard the word "privilege" as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois in the early-mid 1990s. As a student of color on campus who had grown up with a fair amount of racism, I quite enjoyed telling white students to "check their race privilege." More...
By Ashley A. Smith. Community colleges typically enroll a broad range of students, but many are doubling down on efforts to promote diversity and inclusion even as they face resistance -- sometimes from within their own ranks. More...
By Rick Seltzer. The paper, published Friday in the journal Research in Higher Education, builds on the long-established idea that increases in tuition can depress overall college enrollment. Its findings represent a new challenge for public institutions that argue financial aid offsets the negative impacts of tuition hikes. More...
Last year, I wrote "Getting Up to Speed on Diversity" to share strategies on how graduate students could posit, develop and articulate their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI. More...
Despite all our professed support of the concept, Clara M. Lovett asks, how much do we truly value it?
In 1978, when the Supreme Court heard the landmark Bakke case that permitted race to be considered as one of several factors in higher education admissions, several colleges and universities filed amicus briefs in support of the University of California’s race-conscious policies. More...
We must change hiring practices to produce racially and ethnically diverse faculties, argues Estela Mara Bensimon. More...
College admissions season is here. In the coming weeks, millions of high school seniors will receive letters of acceptance or rejection. They will then have a few more weeks to choose which school to attend. More...
Just when it seemed that the Chicano Movement exhibit at El Pueblo History Museum had no future, another door opened. More...
The first-ever African American has been named to oversee Mississippi's eight public universities. More...
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