Newly mandated UCLA diversity training tells students not to say ‘lame,’ ‘insane’
A campus-wide training module was sent out to share “key definitions and ideas."
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Will Sino-Australian academic ties weather the political storm?
Australia’s teaching and research relationships with China are becoming increasingly overshadowed by rising geopolitical tensions.
At ‘Undoing Racism’ workshop, participants told ‘all white people are racist’
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond’s “Undoing Racism” workshop, hosted on various college campuses and other community locations across the nation, works to end systemic racism and institutional oppression.
Diversity and the curriculum
Syracuse grapples with how to meaningfully educate students about equity and inclusion.
More states address apprenticeship policies
State lawmakers are turning more toward apprenticeships as a strategy to tackle the skills gap, according to an annual report on states’ career and technical education policies.
Gender Gap in Grade-Change Requests
Are male college students more likely than female students to ask for a grade change, and do they do so more frequently when they receive a grade they don’t like?
College admits rejected applicants if they pay five times the fee
Saskatchewan veterinary college says move has been forced on it by limits on public funding
New Arizona bill seeks to mandate ideological diversity on campus
Could represent ‘new wave of state-level legislation directed toward reforming public universities’
Better pay and conditions finally in New Jersey for adjuncts
Adjunct college instructors in New Jersey, as elsewhere in the country, have become critical to universities’ teaching models, in some cases representing about half the faculty.
Art school’s merger with Christian university stokes uproar
Students at Watkins College of Art in Nashville describe it as an oasis in the Bible Belt, a small supportive campus welcoming to all and committed to free expression.
