Tag: racial inequality
Campus diversity is becoming difficult to measure as students keep their...
Karly Sarita Ford, Penn State
When the Supreme Court struck down race-based admissions at American colleges and universities just...
How to improve public health, the environment and racial equity all...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University
During a presidential election debate on Oct. 22, 2020, former President Donald Trump railed against...
What is food insecurity?
Caitlin Caspi, University of Connecticut
Among the many striking images from the pandemic is an aerial photo showing cars in seemingly endless rows lined up...
The unintended consequences of marijuana decriminalization
Nikolay Anguelov, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
America’s decades-long war on drugs disproportionately harmed minorities. Now, it seems that decriminalization of marijuana hasn’t leveled the playing...
Immigrants and some people of color are moving to the suburbs...
Grigoris Argeros, Eastern Michigan University
In the traditional American image of suburbia, the majority of residents are predominately native-born white Americans, living in large single-family...
Black voters won Alabama for the Dems. Here’s what they need...
Sharon Austin, University of Florida
As a scholar of African-American and Southern politics for the last 25 years, I’ve witnessed a lot of election upsets...
Colleges need affirmative action – but it can be expanded
Eboni Nelson, University of South Carolina
In 2003, Justice Antonin Scalia predicted that the Supreme Court’s sanctioning of race-conscious affirmative action in higher education would...
Can people ‘like me’ go to college? Inequality and dreams of...
Daphna Oyserman, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Neil Lewis Jr., University of Michigan
The cost of college...
EXPLORING NATURE
Geothermal energy has huge potential to generate clean power – including...
Moones Alamooti, University of North Dakota
As energy use rises and the planet warms, you might have dreamed of...
