Racial bias in campus discipline: When will universities look in the mirror?

A new federal analysis of data on how students are disciplined in K-12 schools found that black children were far more likely than their white peers to suffer consequences for their actions in 2013-14, and the report noted that “implicit base” may be a cause.

Such K-12 data is routinely collected and analyzed by the federal government but the same thing doesn’t happen in higher education. In this post, Ben Trachtenberg, an associate professor of law at the University of Missouri, explains why he thinks that’s a problem.