Misplaced fear of racial and sexual threats, plus the need to provide a ¡®feeling¡¯ of security, cited as reasons universities are reluctant to limit armed officers
Her long career as a psychologist and a college president has shown Beverly Daniel Tatum how crucial racial identity formation is and how overriding negative stereotypes about minority students¡¯ performance can be like ¡®water in a parched land¡¯. Matthew Reisz hears why
¡®The first Black woman on the tenure track in theoretical cosmology¡¯ tells Matthew Reisz about her struggles to reconcile a pristine childhood image of science with the reality she confronts by using selective citation to marginalise racist or sexist scientists
The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities added to the scepticism but, done properly, training makes a difference, say Jules Holroyd and Jennifer Saul
Efforts to improve access and promote diversity are often undermined by assumptions that they are at odds with ¡®excellence¡¯ and academic freedom. Drawing on her experiences all the way from Iran to California, Pardis Mahdavi explains how we can and must do better
Significant share of students say they would be more likely to get vaccine if they could do so on campus, but research reveals wide differences by ethnicity