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We’ve documented actions taken to alter or eliminate jobs, offices, hiring practices, and programs amid pressure to end identity-conscious recruitment and retention of minority staff and students.
Legislators want to get rid of diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, end diversity trainings, banish diversity statements, and censor how professors talk about race, gender, and sexuality in mandatory courses.
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In the first of a three-part series, Larry Van Dyne reported on the troubles facing the City University of New York in the 1970s.
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Shuttering the program, which had been expected to lend out about $19 billion annually over the next decade, could make graduate education very costly or unattainable, warns the Council of Graduate Schools.
A look at changes in average annual percentages of full-time instructors who were members of specific racial and ethnic groups in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, by degree-granting college.
Explore this searchable, sortable table showing the race, ethnicity, and gender of full-time faculty members at 3,300 colleges and universities since 2018.
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Dos and don’ts of asking gen AI to help you explore career options and create job documents.
Two pillars of teaching — structure and evidence — are also the keys to writing more effectively for the public.
Be prepared for executive searches to take longer and for candidates to require more convincing.
Lessons for current and future department heads on how to succeed in this vital yet idiosyncratic role.
Your institution might not be able to love you, but it can certainly prioritize your well-being on the job.
Our graduate-school enterprise exists today in a state of anxiety and reactive tension. Here’s how we’re managing.