Daarel Burnette II

Bethesda

Senior Editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education

Senior editor @Chronicle. @_Hamptonu, @ColumbiaJournMA graduate. ΑΦΑ

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Articles

Title VI, Title IX, and a glut of discrimination lawsuits

May 14, 2024 | chronicle.com | Daarel Burnette II

As states roll back DEI efforts, U.S. ratchets up anti-discrimination pressureThe roiling campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war these past few weeks has supercharged a debate over campus leaders’ ability or willingness to control antisemitism. Last week, Catherine E.
The historic underfunding of public HBCUs and ongoing advocating for equitable k-12 public education

Mar 22, 2024 | wabe.org | Daarel Burnette II

On Friday’s edition of “Closer Look with Rose Scott,” we continue our weeklong series, “FAILING GRADE: Analysis of America’s Public Education Crisis.” The series explores the current state of public education in Georgia and across the nation, from pre-K to higher-ed. For the final day of the series, we continue with our interview from the South Atlanta microschool Pass Pod.
The increasingly amorphous meaning of DEI

Mar 19, 2024 | chronicle.com | Daarel Burnette II

The banning of an ill-defined term has caused hysteria and confusionA year ago, The Chronicle’s Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez spoke to several experts in an attempt to define the term DEI for this newsletter’s readers: The abbreviation DEI, short for diversity, equity, and inclusion, is everywhere, on university centers, in staff titles and administrative positions on college campuses, and in proposed state legislation.
Some observations about the evolution of anti-DEI legislation

Feb 20, 2024 | chronicle.com | Daarel Burnette II

The anti-DEI landscape is changing We’re now in the second year of the movement against diversity, equity, and inclusion, which got fully underway in January 2023, when the Manhattan Institute and the Goldwater Institute published model legislation encouraging states to rid campuses of DEI initiatives that the think tanks said “stifle intellectual diversity, prevent equal opportunity, and exclude anyone who dissents from a rigid orthodoxy.” As the editor of our anti-DEI tracker, I’m...
New FAFSA has left Latino families “frustrated and scared”

Feb 6, 2024 | chronicle.com | Daarel Burnette II

A technical glitch’s outsize impact on diversityThe Education Department’s disastrous December rollout of the new FAFSA form will probably have an outsize impact on the demographic makeup of this fall’s freshman class. The revamped Free Application for Federal Student Aid was originally intended to make obtaining financial aid less cumbersome for low-income students by drastically shrinking the number of questions they’d have to answer.
New FAFSA has left Latino families “frustrated and scared”

Feb 6, 2024 | chroni.cl | Daarel Burnette II

A technical glitch’s outsize impact on diversityThe Education Department’s disastrous December rollout of the new FAFSA form will probably have an outsize impact on the demographic makeup of this fall’s freshman class. The revamped Free Application for Federal Student Aid was originally intended to make obtaining financial aid less cumbersome for low-income students by drastically shrinking the number of questions they’d have to answer.
How colleges are fighting racism head-on

Dec 5, 2023 | chroni.cl | Daarel Burnette II

Community-building, forums, and research: Will it work? One concrete consequence of the mass campus protests over the murder of George Floyd was the establishment of centers to promote antiracism. According to a recent story by The Chronicle‘s Calli McMurray, college administrators green-lit and philanthropists bankrolled several antiracism centers to serve as incubators of new ways to tackle racism.
In a post-affirmative-action world, outreach matters

Nov 21, 2023 | chronicle.com | Daarel Burnette II

Outreach matters, if done right Eric Hoover, The Chronicle‘s resident expert on all things admissions, recently wrote a sweeping story detailing how the Supreme Court’s decision to effectively ban affirmative action has driven a wrecking ball through selective colleges’ admissions processes, forcing administrators to overhaul the way they recruit and retain students of color.
Where Republicans’ fury over DEI prevented everyone from getting a pay raise

Nov 7, 2023 | chronicle.com | Daarel Burnette II

Are changing demographics enabling Democrats and college leaders to fight back? To get a sense of the current state of conservative attacks on colleges’ diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, it’s important to watch Wisconsin, where a monthslong battle over whether colleges should employ DEI officers has reached a culmination.
The precarious state of diversity statements and what’s ahead

Oct 24, 2023 | chroni.cl | Daarel Burnette II

Critics say diversity statements collide with merit and free speech. Should they be replaced? Students of color constantly gripe to administrators about explicit and implicit acts of racism in the classroom. But administrators have struggled to rid their existing faculty of their biases and unfair classroom practices, and to recruit and retain faculty of color.