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Colonialism-Defending Professor Settles Tweet Suit With U of Oregon

A professor who’s long been controversial for defending colonialism has settled the lawsuit he filed more than two years ago...
The U.C. Berkeley campus sits empty on July 22, 2020, in Berkeley, Calif.

DOJ Admissions Probe Targets California Colleges

The Trump administration is investigating four California universities for allegedly considering race in admissions, three decades after the state banned affirmative action at public institutions.

Protesters hold up signs, including one that reads "DEI = yes! DOGE = no! Deport Musk"

A Historical View of Trump’s Anti-DEI Crusade

Historian Robert Cohen, whose most recent book focuses on integration at the University of Georgia, explains what we stand to lose now that anti-DEI attacks extend to the classroom.

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Colleges Flag Words Like ‘Women’ to Comply With DEI Bans

Following the example of federal agencies, some campuses are coming up with lists of keywords to purge their webpages and courses of DEI content.

Holding a magnifying glass over Arizona State University, Cornell University, University of Wisconsin at Madison and Ithaca College.

Education Department Investigates Dozens of Colleges for Discrimination

The Trump administration is following through on its threat to crack down on colleges’ race-based programs, beginning with a small postgraduate recruitment partnership.

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Native Students Are Undercounted in Higher Education, but ED Could Help

A new report urges the Department of Education to implement standards that improve data collection for American Indian and Alaska Native students. The Trump administration may derail this work.

ADL, Other Pro-Israel Groups Condemn AAUP Webinar on Palestine

The Anti-Defamation League and four other pro-Israel groups accused the American Association of University Professors of “demonizing Israel” in its...
The acronym "DEI" in large black 3-D letters next to a judge's gavel.
Opinion

Anti-DEI Rhetoric Does Not Equal Legal Reality

The anti-DEI movement sounds like a row of cannons, but its legal attack is a rifle shot based on one provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Dan Currell writes.