Higher Ed Equity in the News

News Articles Featured in Monthly Newsletters

2025

January Newsletter

• Effectiveness of a Bystander Intervention Training Program to Interrupt Gender and Race Bias Among U.S and Foreign Faculty
• Biden’s Title IX Rule Is Now Blocked Nationwide. Here’s What That Means
• Medical School Enrollment Shows Mixed Trends as Diversity Numbers Decline

February Newsletter

• AAUP Warns Universities Against “Anticipatory Obedience”
• Low Online Degree Completion Rates Raise Concerns over Equity for Vulnerable Students
• Gender Gaps on Boards Persist

March Newsletter

• Department of Education Reverts to Trump’s Title IX Rule
• After Sweeping AntiDEI Guidance, What Should Colleges Do?
• AAUP Joins Lawsuit to Block Anti-DEI Orders
• Higher Education is Exhausted
• What Keeps StressedOut Faculty Going? Their Students

April Newsletter

• College Application Surge: Underrepresented Students Lead Growth in 2024-25 Admissions Cycle
• New Higher Ed Study: The Toxic (but Respectful) Workplace
• Demographic Disparities in STEMM Persistence

May Newsletter

• Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work
• Can Universities Still Diversify Faculty Hiring?
• Some DEI Programs are Vulnerable, Not Illegal
• New Carnegie Classification Identifies “Opportunity Colleges and Universities”

2024

January Newsletter

• 5 Ways to Instill More Joy in Higher Ed Workplaces

February Newsletter

• Bias in External Review Letters
• Excellence Not Colorblind or Gender Neutral
• Increased Use of Contingent Faculty Has Negative Equity Impact
• Much Sexism "Ambiguous"

March Newsletter

• Many of World’s Happiest Countries are Most Gender Equal
• The Economist’s Glass Ceiling Index

April Newsletter

• I forgot that you existed: Role of memory accessibility in the gender citation gap
• External promotion and tenure review letters at research-intensive institutions: A critical communication analysis of external review practices
• Black Scholars Face Anonymous Accusations in Anti-DEI Crusade

May Newsletter

• The Triumph of Equity over Equality
• Is Inclusion Possible on Campuses Today?

June Newsletter

• A Primer for Prepping for Tenure Review
• The Benefits of Being a Selfish Teacher-Scholar
• How Deans Can Help End Service Slacking
• Women Make Global Gains as Researchers, but Gaps Persist

July Newsletter

• Hiring Couples May Help Diversify Faculty Ranks, Tenure Pipeline
• University Partner Hire Scorecard
• Why Summer is So Important
• Mexico Elects Climate Scientist as First Woman President

August Newsletter

• Race, Ethnicity, and Gender of Full-Time Faculty Members at 3,300 Institutions
• Survey Shows Faculty Inclusion Declines
• Claims of “Overspending” on University DEI are Challengedt
• AAUP Faculty Compensation Survey
• Academics versus Athletics: The Protection and Prioritization of College Athletics in an Era of Neoliberal Austerity

September Newsletter

• Women, People of Color Underrepresented in Higher Ed’s Top Professional Staff Positions
• Two Factors Challenging Faculty’s Sense of Inclusion
• Disability Ruling for California College is “Wake-up Call” for Others
• Faculty Members are Burned Out—and Technology is Partly to Blame

October Newsletter

• Teaching Evaluations are Racist, Sexist, and Often Useless
• Women in the Workplace Report
• AAUP Statement on DEI Criteria for Faculty Evaluation

November Newsletter

• What’s Behind Academic Program Cuts
• Colleges are Still Failing their Employees
• Racial Bias Can Taint the Academic Tenure Process—at One Particular Point
• Underrepresented Minority Faculty in the USA Face a Double Standard in T&P Decisions

2023

September Newsletter

• Why are colleges offering up more DEI degrees? Demand for diversity expertise is growing
• Harnessing Demographic Shifts for Racial Justice in Illinois Higher Education (AAUP)
• Professors Sue Vassar College Over Gender Pay Gap (WAMC Public Radio)
• 5 Lessons for Higher Ed's Least Powerful Administrators (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Microaggressions, Interrupted: The Experience and Effects of Gender Microaggressions for Women in STEM (Journal of Business Ethics)

October Newsletter

• Why Higher Ed’s Glass Ceiling Hasn’t Cracked
• Goldin Wins Nobel Prize in Economics for Ground-breaking Research on Gender Pay Gap
• Are Programs to Address the Gender Gap Anti-Male Discrimination?

November Newsletter

• New Report Finds Disparities for Black STEM PhDs (Inside Higher Ed)
• Workplace Climate Pushing Women Out of Professoriate (Inside Higher Ed)
• Promotion Rejected? Your Record May Not Be the Problem (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Adjunct Professors Struggle to Make Ends Meet (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

December Newsletter

• Underrepresented Students in STEM Classes Results in Higher Grades for All Students
• Women and Marginalized Faculty Subjected to More Abusive Comments on Teaching Evaluations
• From Diplomas to Doctorates: The Success of Black Women in Higher Education and its Implications for Equal Educational Opportunities for All
• Heteroprofessionalism in the Academy: The Surveillance and Regulation of Queer Faculty in Higher Education

Additional News Articles

• Report: Faculty of Color in Psychology Face Structural Hurdles in America
• Survey: Voluntary Turnover in Higher Ed Workforce Increasing
• Even Women with Tenure are More Likely to Leave Higher Ed
• Women Pushed Out of Academia by Sexism and Harassment
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Faculty Diversification Must Accelerate, Report Says
• UMaine study explores diversity and equity practices in higher education faculty searches
• Migrating Bias Through Rubrics
• Ask the Chair: Are Great Chairs Born or Made?