Source: Inside Higher Ed The University of Texas at Austin is eliminating four undergraduate majors tied to ethnic and gender studies as the university restructures its academic programs. Inside Higher Ed reported September 18 that African and African diaspora studies, Mexican American and Latina/o studies, women’s and gender studies, and race, indigeneity and migration are…
The BBC recruited apprentices as a route into one of Britain’s most influential media institutions. Many came from working-class families and backgrounds historically underrepresented in journalism and broadcasting—backgrounds that would have made traditional entry routes nearly impossible without family connections, elite educational credentials or the financial capacity to sustain unpaid internships. Approximately twenty apprentices have…
Corporate leaders have spent several years hearing a blunt warning: support diversity, equity and inclusion and risk losing customers, investors and revenue. The warning has animated executive decisions across American business. Google, Walmart, McDonald’s and other major employers have revised diversity initiatives as legal challenges and political scrutiny intensified. The threat has seemed concrete and…
The national debate over diversity, equity and inclusion is usually framed around hiring goals, training programs, corporate language and public commitments. The discussion often centers on whether particular programs treat individuals fairly or whether they constitute preferential treatment. A more structural analysis reveals a different and more consequential concern: anti-DEI policies are advancing simultaneously with…
For six decades, the federal government has required large employers to disclose who works for them and where those employees sit within the organizational hierarchy. Now, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is proposing to eliminate that requirement—potentially making workplace discrimination significantly harder to detect and nearly impossible to prove at scale. The EEOC voted 2–1…
The advertising giant is shrinking at the same time its technology platform is growing more capable. That combination points to a deeper change in how advertising work gets organized. WPP may eliminate as many as another 1,000 jobs before the end of the year, extending a reduction that has already removed roughly 11,000 positions since…
The government says digitizing traffic enforcement can reduce bribery and improve road safety. It also moves discretion from the roadside into cameras, databases and control rooms. Beginning in September, Ghana plans to fundamentally change what happens when a driver breaks a traffic law. Police officers will stop conducting routine roadside checks for more than 47…
India can finance new metros, highways and airports. Whether it can build them is a separate question, and the answer has spent the past year sitting in a factory in Guangzhou. Reuters reported, citing two government sources, that India is set to approve a $1.2 billion incentive scheme for high-value, technologically sophisticated construction and infrastructure equipment, aimed at…
Stars and Stripes has always run on a contradiction: government money funding coverage of the government. The firings resolve it in the direction the funding always pointed. By Bryson Davis | Structural Reality Jocelyn Noveck reported for the Associated Press that the Pentagon dismissed Stars and Stripes editor-in-chief Erik Slavin, publisher Max Lederer and Middle East reporter Lara Korte, after Slavin and Korte objected publicly…
SSC News Desk Houston students returned to school on August 10. In San Elizario ISD, they had already been in classrooms since July 21. Now Texas lawmakers are moving to make both of those dates illegal. Republican state Rep. Jared Patterson says he plans another legislative push to move Texas school start dates later, arguing that…