A new study from Dartmouth College suggests that test-optional admissions policies may be making it harder for high-achieving students from disadvantaged backgrounds to get into top colleges.
Gender identity and sexual orientation will no longer be protected under Title IX. Instead, schools will return to enforcing protections on the basis of biological sex.
While efforts to further curtail DEI will continue into 2025, college students are far more optimistic about diversity initiatives on campus, according to a new survey.
The move bars state institutions from supporting any office, initiative, center or policy related to DEI ideology, a term the resolution defined as any approach that prioritizes identity characteristics over a student's merit.
While race-conscious admissions practices were touted to help colleges and universities increase the diversity of their incoming class sizes, its actual contribution was marginal at best, according to a new analysis by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW).
School leaders who wish to comply with new regulations while simultaneously ensuring they're appealing to diverse student bodies are parrying legislative restrictions with a simple yet sly strategy: rebranding their DEI offices.
Whether it be introducing bilingual degree programs or scoping out medical professions sorely in need of a diverse workforce, these two institutions are leveraging the uptick in Latinx population growth to boost their brand.
As colleges and universities across Florida and Texas are forced to shudder their DEI offices, higher education leaders in other states whose lawmakers threaten to propose similar legislation are voicing their opposition—before it becomes too late.
