Diversity

The renovated dining commons at Rieber Hall is offering food from seven national cuisines. It's part of a trend by colleges nationwide to replace old-style cafeterias and 'mystery meat' offerings with innovative ethnic fare that's more healthful.

Spring Hill College is trying to put a face to immigrants who are threatened by HB 56, Alabama's controversial new immigration law.

U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants must pay out-of-state tuition in Florida. A lawsuit has been filed to overturn the policy.

Offering gender-neutral housing and more single-stall bathrooms are two things the University of Utah and other institutions could do to make their campuses more welcoming to transgender students and employees, a national advocate for transgender rights said Wednesday.

Top UW-Madison officials vigorously defended their admissions policies at a sometimes-testy legislative hearing Monday, called after the president of a conservative think tank leveled a charge that the university engages in "severe discrimination" based on race and ethnicity.

A new study of faculty at universities nationwide says Eastern Connecticut State University has the largest percentage of minority teachers among Connecticut colleges and universities.

Sen. James C. Sheehan (D-North Kingstown) said he has asked U. S. Atty. Peter F. Neronha for a legal opinion on whether the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education violated federal law when it voted recently to grant in-state tuition for undocumented students.

Two immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as students decades ago were inaugurated as presidents of two of New Jersey’s largest private universities in separate ceremonies Friday.

Diversity is the last man standing, the sole remaining legal justification for racial preferences in deciding who can study at public universities. Should the Supreme Court disavow it, the student body at the University of Texas and many other public colleges and universities would almost instantly become whiter and more Asian, and less black and Hispanic.

Several hundred Michigan State University students marched silently near campus Thursday to advocate an end to racism.