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New Study at CNU Aims to Identify Barriers for Women in STEM

Insight Into Diversity

Researchers at Christopher Newport University (CNU) have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to explore how gender, race/ethnicity, and social identity impact STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) faculty experiences.

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US: anti-DEI rules spark “exodus” from Florida

The PIE News

Last month, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a mandate into law prohibiting public colleges from spending money on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives for students, faculty or staff. The post US: anti-DEI rules spark “exodus” from Florida appeared first on The PIE News.

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Focus on DEI in Higher Education: Highlighting Your Work for 50 Years

Insight Into Diversity

During the past 50 years, INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, formerly the Affirmative Action Register (AAR), has reported on the abundance of programs, policies, best practices, and other efforts implemented to advance DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) in higher education and beyond.

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Faculty members oppose trustees' plan to review DEI language

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Faculty members at Lakeland Community College in Ohio are voicing opposition to a motion passed by the Board of Trustees to create a special committee of trustees to “review equity, diversity, and inclusion language in Lakeland Community College’s plans and policies.” The strategic plan was kept as is.

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For seven years, she helped serve the needs of senior faculty and intrepid students. Diversity matters in education are not foreign to López either. For four years, she served as program coordinator for University of Colorado Boulder’s Colorado Diversity Initiative in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

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Center students in the diversity statement debate (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

These days it is becoming more common for academic institutions to request diversity statements with job application materials. Today’s college students are demographically, ideologically, neurologically and culturally diverse, and diversity statements are seen as a way to recruit faculty and staff who will serve these students well.

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Caste discrimination is “grey area” at UK universities

The PIE News

At the time, Sylvia Carey-Butler, Brown’s vice president for institutional equity and diversity, said as the South Asian population in the US increases, caste discrimination is a growing issue on college and university campuses across the country. The University of Oxford did not respond to requests for comment.