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Our news, opinion and advice about issues of race in higher education, answer your questions like:


  • How are colleges responding to state laws banning to diversity, equity, and inclusion?
  • What are colleges doing to recruit and retain students of various races?
  • How are colleges recruiting and retaining scholars from various racial backgrounds?
Threatened Funding
By Camila Gomez June 30, 2025
The group that helped derail race-conscious admissions policies has a new lawsuit taking aim at federal funding for minority-serving institutions.
Research Disrupted
By Jasper Smith June 25, 2025
HBCUs’ mission-driven effort to serve Black communities could now result in severe budget cuts under Trump’s crusade against DEI. It’s all a big misunderstanding, advocates say.
Data
By Jacquelyn Elias June 25, 2025
National trends don’t tell the story of what is happening in individual states and institutions.
The Review | Essay
By Richard Amesbury June 5, 2025
The Trump administration’s assault on diversity reflects its vision of a racially tiered society.
Data
June 2, 2025
Explore this searchable, sortable table showing the race, ethnicity, and gender of full-time faculty members at 3,300 colleges and universities since 2018.
'Trickle-Down Carnage'
By Katherine Mangan May 29, 2025
Scotched in the midst of a DEI purge, the scholarship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham was meant ultimately to reduce racial disparities in health.
The Review | Conversation
By Evan Goldstein, Len Gutkin May 22, 2025
Four scholars with very different opinions debate antisemitism on college campuses.
The Review | Essay
By Hollis Robbins May 22, 2025
How misbegotten ideals tanked California’s “Public Ivy.”
The Review | Opinion
By Noliwe M. Rooks May 12, 2025
The pendulum has swung away from social justice.
'Now deemed illegal'
By Megan Zahneis May 7, 2025
The PhD Project once had “no enemies.” Now, it’s lost nearly a third of its university partners.