Results often fall short of ambitions, but nobody's giving up.
Karla FC Holloway (above), an English professor at Duke U.: "There has been growth in arts and social sciences and medicine, but in some ways that growth has arguably allowed other schools or divisions not to work as aggressively with this effort." (Photograph by Chris Hildreth, Duke Photography)

• MINORITY REPORT: Tables show the race and ethnicity of faculty and students at more than 3,000 colleges.

A committee of rabble-rousers at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor presses administrators to diversify the faculty.

Colleges in small towns and rural areas work to improve the services available to their minority employees.

More colleges are trying to reduce the racial disparities in study-abroad programs by reaching out to minority students.

Interest is surging nationwide in American Indian law as federally recognized tribes' economic clout and political influence grow.

A new institute promises to enliven scholarly research on the cultural and social history of the African diaspora.

People who think that colleges should reflect a society's population are defending a process at the expense of a goal, writes Alan Contreras.

If a college's mission includes achieving diversity, writes Sheila O'Rourke, that goal should be reflected in faculty tenure-and-promotion guidelines.

Chief diversity officers are often lightning rods for criticism, write Damon A. Williams and Katrina C. Wade-Golden.

Silos of academe thwart diversity on campuses, says Juan E. Gilbert.

A study of 58 first-year students at Amherst College suggests the need for better dialogue among different races.

Middle Easterners have remained surprisingly absent from the heated discourse on diversity, says John Tehranian.

A population assimilates under an expanded definition of "whiteness," writes Michael Omi.

Efforts to place more Asian-Americans in college leadership positions have been disappointing.