Collegiate Voices
Texas A&M interim dean resigns after Kathleen McElroy’s botched hiring. By William Melhado and Alejandro Serrano / Texas Tribune
Public Universities That Accept More Than 50% Of Students Who Apply. Shaun Harper / Forbes
Campus Diversity Will Be a Struggle Without Race-Based Admissions, History Shows. By Elaine S. Povich / Yahoo News
Harvard and other ‘Ivy Plus’ colleges are failing low-income students, Goldman Sachs says—but underfunded HBCUs don’t. By Paolo Confino / Fortune and Yahoo News
Medical schools will be even less diverse after affirmative action ruling, experts say. By Char Adams / NBC News
HBCUs With More Black Students Than All 8 Ivy League Schools Combined. By Shaun Harper / Forbes
Harvard legacy admissions lawsuit follows affirmative action Supreme Court ruling. By Collin Bindley / AP and Fortune.
Benjamin E. Mays – Champions of Civil and Human Rights in South Carolina. A Digital Exhibition by the Department of Oral History at the University of South Carolina
Supreme Court affirmative action ruling could widen college racial gap. By Meredith Kolodner / USA Today
The fight for Asian American studies in colleges gains ground. By Meena Venkataramanan / Wash Post
Hampton University Establishes School of Religion. By Arrman Kyaw / Diverse Issues In Higher Ed.
UDC names scientist and HBCU leader as its new president. By Susan Svrluga / Wash Post
The Problem With Wealth-Based Affirmative Action. By Richard Rothstein / The Atlantic
Most Americans say colleges should be able to use affirmative action in admissions, but race should play a small role, new poll shows. By Collin Binkley, Emily Swanson and The AP / Fortune
Why philanthropic funding strongly favors white colleges over HBCUs. By Marc Ramirez / USA Today
“Education Leads to Liberation”: Nikole Hannah-Jones on The 1619 Project & Teaching Black History. Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
America’s strength is learning through history — not rewriting it. By Ken Chenault and Ken Frazier / Wash Post
Black lawmakers in Texas criticize bill that seeks to ban DEI offices in higher education. By Nicole Chavez / CNN
Fewer Black, Latino and male students want to go to college, survey shows. By Edwin Flores / NBC News
How Affirmative Action Was Derailed by Diversity. By Richard Thompson Ford / Chronicle of Higher Ed
College-going gap between Black and white Americans is getting worse. By Jon Marcus / USA Today
Attacks on ‘segregated’ graduation ceremonies overlook the history of racism on campus. By Crystal Garcia and Antonio Duran
DeSantis signs bill to defund DEI programs at Florida’s public colleges. By Jack Stripling / Wash Post
As Politicians Target Higher Ed’s Diversity Efforts, HBCU Students Worry About Their Campuses. By Kyla Hubbard / Chronicle of Higher Ed
Report: 600,000 Fewer Black Students Enrolled in US Colleges vs 20 Years Ago. By Brett Peveto / Public News Service
Statehouses’ Targeting of Diversity and Tenure Is Starting to Scare Away Faculty Job Candidates. By Megan Zalneis / Chronicle of Higher Ed
