MPs want UK university funding tied to tackling sexual harassment
Times Higher Education
Women and Equalities Committee call for UK to follow US Title IX example, accusing government, regulators and institutions of ‘passing the buck’.
Opinion: It’s time universities walk their decolonial talk
Times Higher Education
Universities must do more to counter Euro-white supremacy if they are going to effectively support decolonisation of disciplines, argues Heather McLean.
PhD viva rule is ‘unfair on female academics’
Times Higher Education
New rules requiring a female presence on doctoral defence panels at the University of Glasgow will push more ‘unrewarded’ academic tasks on to women, critics claim
Major Harvard affirmative action case starts US court journey
Times Higher Education
The trial beginning on Monday will assess whether Harvard’s admissions policies discriminate against Asian-Americans in favour of black applicants.
International students face ‘triple the risk’ of sexual assault
Times Higher Education
Fear and shame deter foreigners from reporting attacks, University of Canberra study finds
More than a woman: Nobel laureate wary of gender focus
Times Higher Education
Donna Strickland describes how becoming only the third woman in history to win the physics prize turned her into a ‘rock star’ overnight
US universities ‘using data tricks to hide lack of diversity’
Times Higher Education
Top US universities with low numbers of ethnic minority students are most likely to use questionable practices that overplay diversity, study claims
Male editors ‘more likely to accept papers from other men’
Times Higher Education
Top US universities with low numbers of ethnic minority students are most likely to use questionable practices that overplay diversity, study claims
EU commissioner calls for gender quotas in university management
Times Higher Education
Carlos Moedas tells MEPs institutions should introduce allocations for female academics ‘at some point’
Special reports: Diversity Fatigue Is Real
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Diversity fatigue afflicts the very people who are most committed to diversity work, writes Mariam B. Lam.
London students to be ‘hyper-diverse’ by 2030
Times Higher Education
Report says non-white students will represent 73 per cent of undergraduates by end of next decade.
Controversy over sexual misconduct case roils Yale University
The Washington Post
A medical school researcher who was punished five years ago was given a new honor.
Academic mothers ‘work longer hours than fathers’ in US
Times Higher Education
Study challenges the idea that it is primarily parenthood that hinders women’s careers – but in Germany, the picture is very different.
Universities ‘leave locals out of internationalisation efforts’
Times Higher Education
For internationalism to succeed, universities must engage more with their local communities and students, major study says
New US rules on campus sexual misconduct ‘a backwards step’
Times Higher Education
Government accused of making universities ‘a safer place to commit assault’, but others say changes will offer better support for victims
Academics anonymous: An academic said 'nice dress'. Would complaining make me a snowflake?
The Guardian
It took an anti-harassment campaign to make me realise I wasn’t overreacting.