Higher Ed Equity in the News

News Articles Featured in Monthly Newsletters

2024

January Newsletter

• 5 Ways to Instill More Joy in Higher Ed Workplaces

February Newsletter

• Bias in External Review Letters
• Excellence Not Colorblind or Gender Neutral
• Increased Use of Contingent Faculty Has Negative Equity Impact
• Much Sexism "Ambiguous"

March Newsletter

• Many of World’s Happiest Countries are Most Gender Equal
• The Economist’s Glass Ceiling Index

April Newsletter

• I forgot that you existed: Role of memory accessibility in the gender citation gap
• External promotion and tenure review letters at research-intensive institutions: A critical communication analysis of external review practices
• Black Scholars Face Anonymous Accusations in Anti-DEI Crusade

2023

September Newsletter

• Why are colleges offering up more DEI degrees? Demand for diversity expertise is growing
• Harnessing Demographic Shifts for Racial Justice in Illinois Higher Education (AAUP)
• Professors Sue Vassar College Over Gender Pay Gap (WAMC Public Radio)
• 5 Lessons for Higher Ed's Least Powerful Administrators (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Microaggressions, Interrupted: The Experience and Effects of Gender Microaggressions for Women in STEM (Journal of Business Ethics)

October Newsletter

• Why Higher Ed’s Glass Ceiling Hasn’t Cracked
• Goldin Wins Nobel Prize in Economics for Ground-breaking Research on Gender Pay Gap
• Are Programs to Address the Gender Gap Anti-Male Discrimination?

November Newsletter

• New Report Finds Disparities for Black STEM PhDs (Inside Higher Ed)
• Workplace Climate Pushing Women Out of Professoriate (Inside Higher Ed)
• Promotion Rejected? Your Record May Not Be the Problem (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Adjunct Professors Struggle to Make Ends Meet (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

December Newsletter

• Underrepresented Students in STEM Classes Results in Higher Grades for All Students
• Women and Marginalized Faculty Subjected to More Abusive Comments on Teaching Evaluations
• From Diplomas to Doctorates: The Success of Black Women in Higher Education and its Implications for Equal Educational Opportunities for All
• Heteroprofessionalism in the Academy: The Surveillance and Regulation of Queer Faculty in Higher Education

Additional News Articles

• Report: Faculty of Color in Psychology Face Structural Hurdles in America
• Survey: Voluntary Turnover in Higher Ed Workforce Increasing
• Even Women with Tenure are More Likely to Leave Higher Ed
• Women Pushed Out of Academia by Sexism and Harassment
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Faculty Diversification Must Accelerate, Report Says
• UMaine study explores diversity and equity practices in higher education faculty searches
• Migrating Bias Through Rubrics
• Ask the Chair: Are Great Chairs Born or Made?