By Andrew Kreighbaum. Trump promised best effort ever for HBCUs but has left top position at key advocacy office unfilled for longer than any previous administration did. And his pledge to move office to White House remains unfulfilled. More...
By Ashley A. Smith. An increasing number of minority students are pursuing associate degrees in humanities and liberal arts at community colleges. More...
By Ashley A. Smith. Graduate student enrollment is declining at for-profit institutions, but the sector continues to resonate with one particular demographic -- black women. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Has the push for faculty diversity in the sciences led to real gains? A new study of tenure attainment, faculty retention and time to promotion to full professor across four large land-grant institutions analyzed personnel records for assistant and associate professors from 1992 to 2015. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Pearson vows to remove material amid uproar over advice on how nursing students should evaluate people by their racial, ethnic or religious backgrounds. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Cornell's Black Students United group has pulled back from a controversial policy position -- part of a series of demands made to the New York private university's administration -- about the admission of black students. More...
Diversity, Justice, and Democratization in Open Education and #opened17
George Veletsianos, 2017/08/07
The ripples from OpenEd17 continue to spread. This post looks at some controversy surrounding the opening keynote as the organization associated with the keynote is opposed to gays and lesbians (LGBTQ) as noted here. It raises the question of what 'open' in 'open education' means. More...
What We Learned from Improving Diversity Rates at Pinterest
Candice Morgan, Harvard Business Review, 2017/07/11
This is an interesting article. It shows you can't just set goals for diversity, you have to work at it, and constantly reinforce the reasons why you're doing it. It also shows that the steps taken to ensure diversity also help ensure a proper hiring process overall - for example, casting a wide net instead of relying mainly on referrals (because people tend to refer people who are like themselves - something I've seen firsthand). More...
Feeling out of place. Too big, too short, too wise, too ignorant – these are all situations Gulliver experiences in Jonathan Swift’s classic of English literature. Gulliver’s Travels give us an idea of how important our environment is when it comes to defining ourselves. It also gives us a 19th century look into the very modern concept of diversity. More...
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