A federal judge ordered the University of Iowa (UI) to pay $1.9 million in fees and damages after two student groups won a series of religious discrimination lawsuits against the university. Read more

Few teachers are aware that equalities legislation applies to their school’s policies on hair, despite high-profile court cases affecting black students who have been penalised or excluded for their hairstyles, a survey has found. Read more

UT Austin lost a pregnancy- and sex-bias case against a professor who said the university held her motherhood against her in her tenure bid. Now the university owes her $3 million. Read more

Germany's cyber-security authority has warned against using anti-virus software from Russian headquartered company Kaspersky. Read more

Cornell University is working to hire a “Critical Pedagogy and Equity Librarian” for Mann Library, which is focused on life sciences, agriculture, applied social sciences and human ecology. Read more

The dispute comes as California’s public universities receive a surge of applications, now two years removed from the start of the pandemic. Read more

On Friday, the University of Oklahoma wrapped up “DEI Week,” a full five days dedicated to increasing diversity, equity and inclusion on campus. Read more

Enrollment in community colleges has lagged, bringing new tech-focused efforts into focus. Read more

While all US states exempt non-profit organisations, communities under financial stress renew push for campuses to contribute voluntarily Read more

A system that searches a database of billions of facial images could help Ukraine uncover Russian infiltrators, fight misinformation and identify the dead, a company has said. Read more