Diversity

Richey positioned herself as prepared to continue the Trump administration’s crusades against trans women athletes and campus antisemitism—but provided little insight into how she plans to do so with OCR’s skeleton crew staff.

Catherine Lhamon joined the American Council on Education’s president and a student in criticizing the current federal administration’s targeting of universities over diversity, equity and inclusion.

Multiple college presidents struck deals with pro-Palestinian student protesters last year to end their encampments. Most appear to have honored those agreements.

Colleges have scrapped affinity graduation celebrations as Trump targets DEI and state bans take effect, but new traditions may be starting.

A recent report by the Campaign for College Opportunity encourages systemic measures to close equity gaps in Black student completion.

Harvard University is rethinking its admissions, curriculum and more and investing in Jewish and Palestinian studies as it reckons with the fallout of pro-Palestinian protests.

The state attorney general’s office says it is investigating “multi-jurisdictional acts of vandalism,” but further details are sparse. The grad workers’ union claims “repression.”

The program was planning to expand to other universities. Instead, it won’t even be able to accept students for the coming academic year.