President-Elect Joe Biden nominated Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona to serve as head of the Department of Education in his administration, a public school advocate who sent around ...

“It would not be unheard-of for a student to join us from the state of Wisconsin having had zero people of color in their high school,” Dr. Lori Berquam, dean of students at the University of ...

“You don’t behave enough like staff,” I was told derisively by the tenured professor who was then my supervisor. Despite my Ph.D., my years of experience at various levels of higher education, and my ...

Big Ed Brown presented himself as a lovable, happy-go-lucky guy when he was introduced to fans on 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days. He told viewers that he was going to the Philippines to meet his ...

As I explained to my counselor about all the strange comments my friends had been making, her expression grew increasingly twisted. I paused for a second, and she quickly interrupted the silence by ...

Graduate students employed by the University of Washington don’t have to put up with workplace microaggressions. It says so right in their union’s contract. Under the terms of a new ...

This post originally appeared on Inside Higher Ed. Microaggressions: everyday offenses or digs, sometimes subtle and unintentional, directed at a person based on his or her race. It’s a divisive term ...

Sophisticated, affluent people in the United States (SAPs) have been trained through years of education to respect whatever is presented to them as “science,” even if it’s not very good science, even ...

Careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are one of the fastest-growing areas of work in the United States, yet racial and gender disparities remain in STEM occupations. A ...

Mispronouncing a student's name constitutes a "microaggression" in many schools today, including those in Santa Clara County, California. Mispronunciation is taken as a diss to the child and the child ...