Black and Hispanic professors fare worse when voters include colleagues who are less familiar with their work, new study finds

Diversity-training programs are now practically a rite of passage for college faculty and staff members, yet the evidence that they are effective is underwhelming. Even after years of diversity training on college campuses, academe has made little progress in diversifying faculties.

Women and people of color are underrepresented in higher education’s best-paying jobs, a new study from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources found.

A new study shows that concerns over workplace climate—not work-life balance—were most likely to push female professors out of academia.

A large-scale global study found that while the number of women in academic research is growing, STEM fields remain dominated by men.

Kate Vacek and Letitia Henville offer tips for academics who've just landed their first tenure-track job about how to advance and succeed.

Michigan Tech Professor Adrienne Minerick was recently inducted into the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Hall of Fame, one of its highest honors.

Of the six areas of gender bias we examined, we found significant evidence of bias against women in two of them, teaching evaluations and salary. Also, although grants in the United States were gender-fair, elsewhere there was bias.

How can we make this form of external review less onerous for faculty members?

Across academe, women are more likely to leave their faculty positions than men, and attrition is highest for women who have tenure or work in fields outside of science, technology, engineering, and math, according to a new study.

The struggle women face landing senior leadership roles in corporate America is commonly blamed on the "glass ceiling" — the metaphorical gender barrier that blocked their ascent to the highest levels of management. Yet new research indicates that the problems for women in the workforce begin far lower down the professional ladder.

Join 2022 Nobel Laureate Carolyn Bertozzi for her thought-provoking speech about her journey from privileged beginnings as the daughter of a MIT professor to overcoming systemic roadblocks in chemistry education on her road to becoming a world renowned chemist, the surprising ways her life changed during the days of the announcement, and what she hopes can be accomplished to bring more people to chemistry after the award.

A report by the American Psychological Association outlines the barriers many faculty members of color face and calls for increased transparency in the tenure and promotion process.

Higher education is finally getting serious about training new department heads.

In this e-letter to Science, Agustin Fuentes proposes to those opposing anti-racism moves in science in the United States to "acknowledge the existing data and analyses, collect more data, run new analyses, and then see how to reframe questions and practices given more refined understandings of the dynamics of systems."

What department chairs can learn about leadership from “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

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.

PI Minerick participated in 2022 panel

PI Minerick participated in a panel on  Gender and Racial Equity in Engineering: Perspectives from Academia at the EMD conference in 2022.

Joya Misra, Dawn Culpepper and KerryAnn O’Meara offer four strategies for ensuring workload and rewards systems equitably recognize the efforts of women faculty of color.

Campus Child Care Has Become Less Available. A New Partnership Aims to Change That

The number of on-campus child-care centers has declined over the last 10 years, with the steepest declines taking place in the community-college sector.

To combat these issues, the National Head Start Association and the Association of Community College Trustees announced a partnership that is meant to put more child-care facilities on campuses.