This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two University of North Carolina graduate students were curious: Were female school superintendents earning less than their male counterparts? Considering longstanding gender pay gaps across the economy, they expected to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the United States settles into fall, fears that the coronavirus pandemic will worsen are coming true. Infection rates have spiked in the midwest and Great Plains. There’s a resurgence of COVID-19 in several neighborhoods in New York City,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Sierra Club, the oldest and largest environmental organization in the United States, is on a mission it is not known for—shining a light on environmental injustices. It announced its…
Giving Compass’ Take: • After analyzing over 30,000 interpersonal network configurations in the city of Charlotte, NC, researchers assessed their value regarding access to opportunities in jobs, education, and housing. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many businesses around the globe have demonstrated adaptability and resilience as they faced the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some companies, often led by their employees, have also had somewhat of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the pandemic is over, there will be COVID-19-related practices many school administrators will happily like to see vanish and never return, such as mask wearing and social distancing. But…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As COVID-19 shut down colleges in March 2020, we observed that the ones that successfully transitioned to remote service did not replace their existing student service model with a completely…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the early 2000s, “returnships,” a term trademarked by Goldman Sachs in 2008, have been part of the solution to the puzzling challenge of how to get women back into…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Children’s television programming not only shapes opinions and preferences, its characters can have positive or negative impacts on childhood aspiration, according to a new study. The study is the first…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19 has changed everything about our daily lives. People are keeping their distance. Businesses have had to completely shift their way of doing business or closed entirely. Organizations everywhere are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It all started in 2008 when scientists started noticing fire salamanders in the Netherlands were disappearing. In 2013, scientists identified the culprit: a new-to-science chytrid fungus they named Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Effective altruism is still widely misunderstood in academia, so I took the opportunity to write up my thoughts on how effective altruism should be defined and why, and to respond…