Diversity

Women are taking more spots on deans' councils. At U. of Richmond, 4 of 5 deans are women. Will they change academic leadership?

Study finds students are more likely to see gay and lesbian professors as biased than they are straight professors -- based on the same syllabus.

Women from Pakistan, Canada and the United States consider the implications of the brutal attack on a graduate student from Bangladesh -- and the reactions to it.

The "model minority" myth notwithstanding, many Asian students need help succeeding in college. A new association wants to make sure they get it.

The authors of Academically Adrift may be letting black students off the hook, to the students' own detriment, writes Roy L. Beasley.

Looking for savings, Tennessee State eliminates "low-producing" majors, including physics and Africana studies. Critics ask why a black college would cut such offerings.

U.S. Education Department expands on edict to colleges about not shutting out disabled students with technology.

Association's penalties for athletes' poor classroom performance particularly affect college sports' "have-nots" — especially black institutions.