A quick drive-by post, w/links

The Chronicle of Higher Education

They are one source that regularly covers U.S. university hiring and related issues via statistics. Here are links to information on a large number of American universities in regard to diversity:

http://chronicle.com/indepth/diversity/?250E

Statistics on race and ethnicity at universities (wish they'd meld with gender some time!):

http://chronicle.com/premium/stats/race/2007/

Interesting piece (for me as ever-single woman): making more room for singles (moi!) not in terms of hiring but in research in disciplines that have assumed marriage as the default for happy normal people!:

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i05/05b04401.htm

(Links supplied by one of my doctoral students--I might embarass her if I posted her name, so I'll just say thanks!)