January 29, 2026 - In 1985, Merryl Goldberg went to the Soviet Union and met The Phantom Orchestra. To help them she made up a secret code, hidden in sheet music. This story was updated at 3:15 p.m.

The University of California system has wisely decided this month to end its requirement that faculty job applicants submit a “diversity statement.” While it’s a reasonable goal to expect a university ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People rally at the University of California, Berkeley campus to protest the Trump administration Wednesday, March 19, 2025, in ...

The University of Michigan announced it will no longer require applicants for faculty jobs, promotions and tenure to submit statements on their commitment to diversity. Provost Laurie McCauley made ...

When the University of Colorado Boulder launched its mission to weave the philosophies and practices of inclusive excellence across the campus, we at CMDI immediately asked ourselves some critical ...

The University of California (UC) has become the latest high-profile school to drop diversity statements from its hiring practices. On Wednesday, the university’s provost Katherine S. Newman sent out ...

It’s likely that most Californians have never heard of the Levering Act, passed by the California Legislature in 1950, but it symbolized the state’s political orientation in the post-World War II era.