Minority legal association passed measure last year saying law schools should require documentation for Native ...

A group of influential minority legal associations passed a resolution last year calling on law schools to require “sufficient documentation of Native American citizenship” to prevent “academic ethnic fraud” from law school applicants. The issue has become a heated topic in the Massachusetts Senate race, as Republicans have questioned why Harvard Law School at one time promoted Elizabeth Warren ...

Records shed more light on Elizabeth Warren’s minority status

A second law school, the University of Pennsylvania, has touted Elizabeth Warren as a minority faculty member in an official school publication, according to an online document obtained by the Globe. Meanwhile, a newly unearthed University of Texas personnel document shows that Warren listed herself as “white” when she taught at the law school there from 1981 to 1991.

Professor Lifongo Vetinde awarded Fulbright Scholarship to Senegal

Lawrence University Associate Professor of French Lifongo Vetinde has been named a recipient of a 2012-2013 Fulbright Teaching and Research Fellowship. Starting in October, Vetinde will spend 10 months teaching at the Université Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal, West Africa.

Adding new categories to UC application allow for more accurate racial representations

The University of California system has always prided itself in the diversity found throughout its campuses. Yet beneath this desire for diversity lies a misrepresentation of many ethnic groups because of broad racial and ethnic categorization found on the UC undergraduate application.

Columbia's Next Phase in Enhancing Faculty Diversity

Columbia University has committed to investing $30 million to enhance the diversity of its faculty through the recruitment of outstanding female and underrepresented minority scholars.