America is facing both a critical shortage of health care workers and a rapidly aging population. The classroom experiences, support and encouragement students in these fields receive can make a decisive difference in whether they persist and ultimately succeed.| The Hechinger Report
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to investigate the University's compliance with the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action.| The Stanford Daily
The letter gives Stanford 14 days to comply with its orders or “face potential loss of federal funding.”| The Stanford Daily
Proposition 209 prohibited the use of race in education. Its effects were debated before the U.S. Supreme Court this year.| Education Week
Officials said the University’s race-conscious admissions policy had played a “pivotal” role in fostering diversity at GW.| The GW Hatchet
The Common Data Set for 2024–25, UChicago’s first since the Supreme Court ruled race-conscious admissions unconstitutional, showed corresponding increases in white and Asian enrollment, while transfer-student enrollment nearly doubled.| Chicago Maroon
There’s widespread consensus that racism, sexism, and classism are pervasive social problems requiring consensus and coordination to address. However, a recent study in the American Journal of Sociology suggests that Americans understand these problems in very different terms. Using a mixed-methods approach combining interviews with a nationally representative survey, sociologists Lauren Valentino and Evangeline Warren […]| Articles – Contexts
This essay, on viewpoint diversity, academic objectivity and free speech, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 20 April 2025, under the headline “Trump’s political bullying of Harvard will do nothing to foster diversity of thought”. Few people want to live in an echo chamber. Many have no problem being friends with those who vote differently to the way they do. And many would probably agree with John Stuart Mill that “he who knows only his own side of the case, […]| Pandaemonium
On July 1, 2025, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) released three notices of proposed rulemaking that, if adopted, will change federal contractors’ affirmative action obligations. With respect to EO 11246 regulations (specifically, 41 C.F.R. §§ 60-1, 60-2, 60-3, 60-4, 60-20, 60-40, and 60-50 ), OFCCP explains that “it must rescind” those regulations...| Government Contractor Compliance & Regulatory Update
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Last Tuesday, February 25, 2025, the American Federation of Teachers and the American Sociological Association filed a lawsuit to challenge a confusing and frightening “Dear Colleague” …| janresseger
What does the recent avalanche of executive orders mean for employers? Join our team of compliance experts for coverage and analysis.| OneDigital
President Trump has revoked Executive Orders from prior Administrations that prohibited employment discrimination by federal contractors and subcontractors.| OneDigital
"It is time to replace the ideas behind affirmative action and DEI programs in higher education with more progressive concepts that better describe current social reality." So begins the following guest post by Naomi Zack, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at City University of New York (Lehman College). The post is based on the first chapter| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by City Journal on November 19, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The Supreme Court in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA) banned the use of race in admissions in higher education. In the State University of New York system, however, race-conscious methods […]| Minding The Campus
If race-based grant contracts violate §1981, practical legal advice for grantors and grantees alike would include options ranging from linguistically just avoiding any reference to race in grant agreements to avoiding grant contracts altogether.| the Giving Review
If higher education is about signaling academic attainment, then it helps no-one when the signal is scrambled.| Law & Liberty
