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Research Finds No Gender Bias in Academic Science

Reviewing decades of studies, researchers with “adversarial” perspectives conclude that tenure-track women and men in STEM receive comparable grant funding, journal acceptances and recommendation letters—and that women have an edge over men in hiring.

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Grading Amid a Grad Workers’ Strike

University of Michigan graduate student instructors and staff assistants have been striking for almost a month. Now, the institution is trying to grade without them.

Professor Let Go After Officiating LGBTQ+ Wedding Sues

A professor who says Calvin University denied him tenure for his LGBTQ+ rights advocacy and then didn’t reappoint him for...

Trinity International President Makes Anti-Trans Donor Pitch

A fundraising letter from the president of Trinity International University connecting a recent mass shooting in Nashville, Tenn., to the...
Susan Burgess' LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights (NYU Press)

‘LGBT Inclusion in American Life’

Scott McLemee reviews LGBT Inclusion in American Life by Susan Burgess.

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A Texas Trilogy of Anti-DEI, Tenure Bills

Three Texas bills would end tenure, force universities to fire professors who “attempt to compel” certain beliefs and ban what the legislation defines as diversity, equity and inclusion programming. The State Senate has already passed one.

Academic shaking hands with graduates.

Moving the Needle on the College Presidency

The latest presidential survey from the American Council on Education shows gains on diversity, though the number of female presidents barely budged.

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2.2% of This Year’s Applicants Are Trans or Nonbinary

Data come from Common App and Campus Pride as they release new guide on sex and gender questions in applications.