Diversity

Court ruling is likely headed to Supreme Court, which may reconsider past approvals

Debra Humphris discusses experiencing prejudice and learning from it, and why the University Alliance's voice on the future of work and higher education matters

Percentage of BAME and female professors has gone up but ‘there is still a long way to go’, Advance HE report shows

Poll finds university leadership supports diversity schemes but limited buy-in from rank and file

Weeks after Trump vow to strengthen HBCUs, key Republican senator causes row by tying funding to wider HE legislation

University study centre ‘positive’ on Islam but not Christianity, objects senior Department of Education official

France’s president responded to the gilets jaunes movement with a surprise plan to abolish the grande école ENA, reigniting debate about the country’s intensely hierarchical higher education system. John Morgan explores what lies behind the proposal and what it says about the role of exclusive institutions in a populist, anti-elitist age

Failure to improve diversity risks ‘marginalising the impact and credibility of universities in an increasingly diverse world’, Leru warns

Contrition helps actress who paid to get answers changed on her daughter's SAT

ETH rector says academia should focus on ‘excellent performances’, not quantity of research

Universities also warned that lack of diversity in AI is leading to missed opportunities to solve important problems

Other universities could face protests if they do not address racial disparities, says campaigner

Wealthier institutions urged to take lead on improving minority representation

Critical thinking is not enough. Students must be taught dynamics of social media, say Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren

Universities must re-examine their efforts to atone for slavery by listening to those affected by racial injustice, says Linda Mann

Former UCL students complain about ‘Eurocentric’ curriculum

A lecturer describes how her university failed to act when she was racially victimised by a student receiving mental health support

Consultation options look to reduce administrative burden of flagship scheme

As in the UK and the US, universities face questions about whether their curricula feature enough non-white voices

Updated settlement ties racial and gender distribution to national shares of population

Decades of racial division hindering academia’s ability to alleviate poverty

Law dean calls Amy Wax’s views ‘repugnant’ but does not answer demands for her removal

New campus after seven years of CMU operations in Rwanda raises hopes, questions of sustainability

Minority institutions wary of big candidate promises to lavish them with support

Provision of teacher residencies and mentoring by universities seen as key to long-term science improvement

Widespread talk of free college may give way to tougher institutional measures, conference hears

FBI views academic collaboration with Chinese institutions as ‘sharing with the enemy’, says attorney for sacked geneticists

The coach, Peter Brand, had accepted high home purchase price from applicant’s father

Only a quarter of biology conferences set rules on attendee behaviour and penalties for misconduct are even rarer, study finds

Daughter of academic immigrants has plenty of history on higher education policies

Solutions from the UK and the US on how to improve diversity in leadership roles

Indiana Seresin accuses universities of focusing on gender equality at expense of racial justice

Survey finds that almost a fifth of LGBT+ researchers in the physical sciences have personally experienced harassment or other exclusionary behaviour

University leaders more likely to have attended Oxford or Cambridge compared with five years ago, but also to have gone to a comprehensive school

Oberlin ordered to pay $44 million (£35 million) after leading discredited boycott

Pretoria’s new vice-chancellor says ‘co-creating’ institutional cultures was critical for a diverse academy

Identical CVs with different names on them sent to 250 academics in experiment

Impact of massive gifts may be limited if high dropout rates among disadvantaged students cannot be reined in

King’s College London moves opens debate over role of such knowledge in countries without significant Aboriginal populations

Report highlights ‘fear and unease’ among some staff and students who were asked to talk openly about race

Report warns that racism persists in South Africa’s leading university, but it has attracted criticism

Student action shows US colleges far from accepting their slavery-related debts

Ford administration is blind to incompatibility of statistical metrics and quality teaching, academics warn

Experts warn much more left to do to reduce inequality, as male advantage grows at 46 institutions

King’s College London and Aberdeen say they are reviewing honours over new law making gay sex punishable by death

Historically black universities are learning from the success of an institution which did not admit a black student until 1962

For most competitive class ever, Asian Americans claim more than a quarter of seats

New association will seek to tackle class-based barriers prevalent in academia, says chair

Leadership barriers facing graduates suggest need for change, including in university curricula

The winner of this year’s Holberg Prize, worth over £500,000, on career setbacks, changing attitudes and decolonising the curriculum

The Palestinian law professor talks about the overlap with his other job: as a stand-up comedian travelling the world talking about the Arab American experience

Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, Selina Sutton explains what universities are doing wrong (and right) when supporting PhD candidates during pregnancy and beyond

Hundreds of students voted against creation of Jewish society on campus

Many presidents have pursued their careers just at one institution, raising questions about management skills, report finds

Admissions officers wrote of favouring ‘brown babies’, campaign group reveals

Television historian on his failed attempt to ‘escape’ being a historian, Churchill’s ‘mixed’ legacy and why we need more black professors

Race-based student performance gap doubles when professors admit doubts about innate abilities

Gradings influenced more by sex and ethnicity than teachers’ experience

Papers with females as senior authors significantly more likely to take account of sex

Unsupportive senior staff and ‘unjust’ promotion practices are major problems reported by black female professors, says equity researcher