Cornish was Black. He likely didn’t know that the hospital had been founded two years before as Provident Hospital and Training School for Nurses, the nation’s first integrated hospital, a haven where ...

In a memo sent July 8 to tenure system faculty, deans, school directors and chairpersons, Interim Provost Thomas Jeitschko ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The State Department is firing more than 1,300 employees on Friday in line with a dramatic ...

Washington: The Trump administration on Thursday opened a civil rights investigation into the hiring practices at George Mason University, expanding a national campaign against diversity policies to ...

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Germany sees itself as a meritocracy, meaning if you work hard, you can make it to the top. But is that really true, considering who actually sits in German executive offices and how they got there?

A few weeks ago, similar pressure from the administration caused the president at the University of Virginia to step down.

Diversity, equity and inclusion has remained a flash point in Wisconsin politics. Here's what you need to know about the history around the issue.

When university president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into ...

Azoria Meritocracy Fund invests in companies hiring based on merit rather than demographics, as corporate America scales back ...

The NCI faces an exodus of clinicians, scientists and other staffers — many of them fired by the Trump administration. Funds ...

Architects of pressure campaigns targeting U-Va. and Harvard were shaped by experiences as ideological minorities in liberal ...