Student diversity: race and ethnicity

We haven’t always got it right, but we should not apologise for trying to build a better society, no matter how powerful our detractors, says Keith Burnett

Concerns persist despite eleventh-hour watering down of legislative response to Bondi massacre

Shadow minister calls for newly established Australian Royal Commission to scrutinise universities in wake of deadly Bondi beach attack

Financial penalties loom for institutions that fail to crack down on issue as government commits to ‘report card’ system

Reconceive disagreement as an opportunity to engage rather than a problem to be solved or sidestepped, experts urge, following terrorist tragedy on iconic beach

Increase in projects featuring ‘progressive discourse’ likely to fuel criticism that academia is too left wing, study warns

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