Such diversity-focused faculty hiring projects have, until recently, been a longstanding NSF priority. Wichita State ...

A recent lawsuit brought by the Pacific Legal Foundation against the University of California at San Diego could deal a ...

The University of California (UC) has become the latest high-profile school to drop diversity statements from its hiring practices. On Wednesday, the university’s provost Katherine S. Newman ...

The Justice Department has launched a Title VII investigation into the University of California over alleged race and sex-based discrimination in faculty hiring across its campuses.

When Fisher v.University of Texas, the landmark case that upheld affirmative action, returned to the Supreme Court in July 2016, Justice Kennedy wrote, “Student body diversity promotes learning ...

The University of California will no longer allow diversity statements to be used for faculty hiring, the system announced this week – abandoning a controversial practice that UC spearheaded for ...

(BCN) — The University of California will no longer require diversity statements for faculty applicants, university leaders announced. The change comes as the Trump administration has threatened ...

The University of California has been requiring prospective faculty members to affirm that they support diversity. This was Orwellian in its own right—reminiscent of the university system's ...

The University of California system's board of regents has now put an end to the use of such diversity statements at those schools. This is a truly remarkable development.

Gregory Washington, the first Black president of George Mason University, is under fire for his promotion of campus diversity ...

As the Supreme Court weighs affirmative action, the University of California's struggle with diversity since a 1996 ban offers lessons.

The University of California will no longer require diversity statements for faculty applicants, university leaders announced. The announcement comes as the Trump administration has threatened to ...