Student diversity: race and ethnicity

White House cuts $350 million in grants for minority-serving institutions only to announce $500 million in funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Manufactured scarcity will undermine MSIs’ solidarity and risks reopening opportunity gaps in minority communities, says Marybeth Gasman

Students in Ireland call for practical protection measures after string of violent assaults that left some requiring surgery

Good progress has been made on implementing the Universities Accord but much more is needed to achieve parity, say five deputy vice-chancellors

Just being there is the best many can hope for, says disabled students’ advocate

Trump transparency drive strips complex decisions of their context, scholars warn, amid fears directive will hit minority student numbers

Melbourne book explores slow conversion from institution that ‘excluded and dehumanised’ Aborigines into one that ‘accelerated their inclusion and success’

Australian race commissioner criticises proposal to withhold university funding, as watchdog begins ‘landmark’ survey of racism

Some universities shut down initiatives entirely while others try to continue them in different guise but president unlikely to be appeased on hot-button issue, say scholars