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Blacks’ fight for tenure roils Emerson In its 129-year history, Emerson College has granted tenure to just three black professors.
Prejudice in Paradise Hawaii Has a Racism Problem
Prisoners of Belief Supreme Court Ruling Boosts Odinist Inmates
Race Still Matters Does race matter? As rhetorical as it seems, this question continues to emerge as a topic worthy of debate.
Gender, Majors and Money These are great days for female undergraduates, who with their greater numbers are excelling in higher education, leaving their male counterparts in the dust.
Learning to Tolerate Intolerance It is always edifying to see how New Yorkers deal with opinions that they despise.
Fixing the Economy? It's Women's Work. While the pinstripe crowd fixates on troubled assets, a stalled stimulus and mortgage remedies, it turns out that a more sure-fire financial fix is within our grasp -- and has been for years. New research says a healthy dose of estrogen may be the key not only to our fiscal recovery, but also to economic strength worldwide.
The Ariel/Hewitt study: 401(k) Plans in Living Color Groundbreaking Study Reveals African-Americans and Hispanics Significantly Less Prepared for Retirement Than Their White and Asian Counterparts
Rights for Some People Should someone who teaches human rights back human rights for all people?
All for Wearing a Hijab Slma Shelbayah always wanted to be a Middle East television analyst. Now the former Georgia State University doctoral student and visiting instructor at the university's Middle East Institute is finding herself in the media for a different reason -- discrimination against her because of her Middle Eastern background.
Perceptions: A Customer Bias in Favor of White Men A new study suggests that people give higher customer satisfaction ratings to white men than to women and members of minorities, even when their performance is the same.
Even Now, There’s Risk in ‘Driving While Black’The experience of being mistaken for a criminal is almost a rite of passage for African-American men.
Dogs Understand Fairness, Get Jealous, Study Finds Dogs have an intuitive understanding of fair play and become resentful if they feel that another dog is getting a better deal, a new study has found.
'Faring Well' or Disappearing? While women are underrepresented on the science faculties of research universities, they are more likely than men to be interviewed for tenure-track jobs and to receive job offers, and if they are hired and stay, they are at least as likely as men to receive tenure.
Culture, Not Biology, Underpins Math Gender Gap For more than a century, the notion that females are innately less capable than males at doing mathematics, especially at the highest levels, has persisted in even the loftiest circles.
'White African-American' Suing N.J. Med School for Discrimination Can a white guy be African-American? Paulo Serodio says he is.
Health Insurers Agree to End Higher Premiums for Women Insurance companies offered Tuesday to end the practice of charging higher premiums to women than to men for the same coverage.
Legislators urge look at Indians Group alleges racism in tribes.
National Mock Trial Competition Encounters a Real Legal Challenge Earlier this spring, the Maimonides School, an Orthodox Jewish day school in Brookline, Mass., won the state mock trial championship — and with it a coveted spot in the prestigious national competition in Atlanta this weekend. But the finals of the tournament fall on Saturday, and the students do not compete on the Sabbath.
'Standing Still' as Associate Profs English and foreign language departments promote male associate professors to full professors on average at least a year -- and in some cases, depending on type of institutions, several years -- more speedily than they promote women, according to a study being released today by the Modern Language Association.
Crossing a Line Everyone involved in the dispute over William I. Robinson talks about lines being crossed. A tenured professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Robinson said that his critics have crossed lines of fairness by equating his criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, and that the faculty judicial system is crossing lines that are supposed to protect academic freedom by investigating him.
Tribal voters approve North Dakota nicknameThe Spirit Lake Sioux tribe voted Tuesday to approve the University of North Dakota’s current nickname – a condition under terms of the settlement of the North Dakota Board of Higher Education’s 2006 lawsuit against the NCAA for North Dakota’s use of the name and related imagery in the Association’s championships.
Roberts court to hear arguments in its first major racial discrimination caseFrank Ricci fights fires, saves lives and lends his name to the most closely watched racial discrimination case now facing the Supreme Court.
Landmark college football-hiring bill altered to cover all sportsThe proposed bill that would require Oregon's state universities to interview a minority candidate before hiring a head football coach expanded Friday to include athletic directors and head coaches in all sports.
Student Sports Fans and Bigoted Attitudes Higher education has an image of being among the more tolerant and progressive parts of American society with regard to gender and sexual orientation. Colleges pledge to combat sexism and homophobia -- and take pride in a variety of polices and programs that reflect this commitment. Big-time athletics may be a little different.
Landmark college football-hiring bill altered to cover all sports...The proposed bill that would require Oregon's state universities to interview a minority candidate before hiring a head football coach expanded Friday to include athletic directors and head coaches in all sports.
Roberts court to hear arguments in its first major racial discrimination case...Frank Ricci fights fires, saves lives and lends his name to the most closely watched racial discrimination case now facing the Supreme Court.
How Your National Origin Can Impact Your Performance.... I've talked in the past about how I was raised. I was lucky enough to be raised by some great parents who gave me everything I needed to be successful, and were patient when I acted like a punk.
Trans-Ition Andre Wilson considers himself one of the luckier ones. When he decided to undergo sexual reassignment surgery as a graduate student at the University of Michigan, Wilson had the financial and emotional support of his family.
Win for Anti-Bias Rules A federal appeals court on Tuesday gave a major win to public universities and advocates for gay rights who have wanted to preserve in full the institutional anti-bias policies that bar discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Black (Immigrant) Admissions Edge The election of Barack Obama -- African American because of his African father, distinguishing him from how the phrase is commonly used -- has brought unprecedented attention to the diversity of backgrounds of those covered by the term.
EEOC REPORTS JOB BIAS CHARGES HIT RECORD HIGH OF OVER 95,000 IN FISCAL YEAR 2008: Commission Obtains $376 Million for Victims of Discrimination The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that workplace discrimination charge filings with the federal agency nationwide soared to an unprecedented level of 95,402 during Fiscal Year (FY) 2008, which ended Sept. 30. This level is a 15 percent increase from the previous fiscal year.
Women as Contingent Faculty: The Glass Wall (AAC&U)Women’s inability to consistently reach the same tenure and pay levels as men has provided strong evidence for the existence of a glass ceiling in higher education.
Transgender people on campus struggle, find good at MU Something just isn't right. Thirteen-year-old boys should not dress in women's clothing, and Jeffrey Colvin knows this.This isn't the first time he has done this. In fact, he has been cross-dressing for several years now. But this moment is different. This time his father catches him. And he is scared.
New Study Documents Sharp Rise in Pregnancy Discrimination Complaints Driven by Discrimination Against Women of Color In 2007, working women in the United States filed 65 percent more complaints of pregnancy discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) than they filed in 1992. A sampling of these claims found that complaints filed by women of color and those working in industries dominated by female workers fueled much of this sharp increase.
Tough Times? Blame Minorities! Repeatedly in our country's history, economic troubles have created conditions that are ripe for demagogues and hatemongers to whip up public anger against minorities and recent immigrants.
Living outside traditional gender definitions Shawn Wallace stands between two bathroom doors marked "Men's" and "Women's." Nervous, Wallace knows there are only a few seconds to choose a door before someone in this small-town gas station says something.
Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know One of the most important challenges facing universities in the twenty-first century is ensuring a high-quality faculty while allowing for flexibility and change to the traditional hiring and tenure systems.
Anti-Semitism Goes to School Half a century ago, American institutions of higher education nationwide had quotas sharply restricting the number of Jewish students allowed to enroll. Today, those quotas have ceased to exist — along with the school-sanctioned discrimination they embodied.
Faculty Council proposes controversial new grievance process. Faculty Council members discussed revamping a heavily scrutinized faculty grievance process, a debate that highlighted escalating concern over administration power.
Online Sexual Harassment Training. The Board of Curators has requested that all University employees receive training in the prevention of sexual harassment. All MU employees (faculty, staff, and students) are urged to participate in the training, designed to educate employees about what sexual harassment is and how it affects the workplace. There are different versions of the program for supervisors and non-supervisors, faculty, students, and medical employees. You must score 80% to pass the Mastery Test, but you can take the test as many times as needed.
In revised UM policy, Noel English appointed EEO and Affirmative Action Officer for Teaching and Research at MU