Tag: Gender equity

Sports

Critical Sport Scholars: Navigating an Uncomfortable Space

Being a college sports fan while also studying college sports is a difficult space to navigate.

June 23, 2021

Sports

Report: Leadership at FBS Institutions Continues to Lack Diversity

The latest report card from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) gives FBS schools an F for gender hiring, but improvement may lay ahead.

January 6, 2021

Latest News

The Right Fight: San Diego State’s Department of Women’s Studies Celebrates 50 Years

During the 1960s, social movements gained momentum across the United States in neighborhoods, cities and on college campuses, many of which focused on racial and gender rights. San Diego State University (SDSU) was one of the many institutions at the forefront of the fight for women’s rights.

April 5, 2020

HBCUs

Morehouse Takes Bold Step in Admitting Transgender Students

Come next fall, Morehouse College — the nation’s only historically Black all-men’s school in the nation — will begin admitting transgender students who identify as men.

June 10, 2019

Faculty & Staff

FAMU Initiative Seeks to Transform Institutional Culture for Women Faculty

A new initiative at Florida A&M University (FAMU) that is funded by the National Science Foundation will have significant implications for how historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) address gender disparities in hiring, retention and promotion of women faculty.

February 1, 2019

Women

Report Shows Continued Discrimination for Women, People of Color in U.S. Businesses

A recent research report by Bentley University’s Gloria Cordes Larson Center for Women and Business (CWB) details the reasons why women and women of color are disappearing from the career pipeline. Such factors include structural barriers and unconscious bias against working mothers. Using research and media coverage, the CWB found that entry-level women make 20 […]

November 28, 2018

News Roundup

Study Shows Lack of Gender Equity in Higher Ed Leadership

Women in Massachusetts represent half of all provosts and deans in the state, and more than one-third of institutions have never had a female president. Among all of the colleges and universities surveyed, 26 have less than 30 percent female board members. That was the findings of the a new report released by the Eos […]

November 26, 2018

Home

USC Race Center Issues Report Card on Black Student Equity

A new study by the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center paints a grim picture of inequity for the 900,000 African-American undergraduate students at public institutions of higher learning across the nation.

September 24, 2018

Leadership & Policy

HBCUs Aid the Rise of Black Women

In exploring issues of gender equity for Black women, the role of HBCUs and their impact across higher education and the business sector are too frequently overlooked. In an industry dominated by White males, Black women have shattered stereotypes and excelled in key campus leadership positions across the academic enterprise.

April 15, 2018