Improving diversity in U.S. universities: Targeting individual bias "hasn't been working" (F. Dobbin)

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"It's clear that trying to target individual bias and make that the problem hasn't been working to improve diversity. But unfortunately, those are the practices that all of the universities have, and the things that do work are relatively rare", says Frank Dobbin, Professor of sociology at Harvard University (U.S.), on 19/06/2025.

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