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Former Governor Joins Alma Mater's Law School Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

David Beasley Beasley receives the full-time appointment, effective March 1, as Distinguished Professor of Practice and Public Service in the law school’s Department of Legal Studies. The mission of the law school is to educate lawyer leaders for their communities, our state and nation,” said William Hubbard, dean of the Joseph F.

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National Opinion Polls on Affirmative Action: Inflaming an Issue that is Divisive Enough

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bakke case of 1978, the Supreme Court has been asked on several occasions to rule on the constitutionality of using race as one factor in higher education admissions. Bollinger decision in 2003. Since the Regents of the University of California v. That gets to the question of national opinion polls on affirmative action.

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The End of Affirmative Action

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Leadership in Higher Education This morning, the U.S. Because Harvard is a private institution and UNC public, that result would ban use of race in admission decisions across the entire spectrum of higher education. Many of my friends and colleagues in higher education have questions about these cases. In Grutter v.

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Showing the Human Face of Higher Ed Leadership

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We love his warmth, candor, and willingness to put a human face on the challenges of higher education leadership. I've got a handful of close friends in higher education that I can just be human with. A Sloan Foundation Graduate Fellowship funded his studies at both Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and Duke University.

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Pepperdine law dean talks openly about his stutter

Inside Higher Ed

Many would say this is still the case and argue that higher education remains ableist, in particular. He studied political science in college because he’d always been interested in politics, and when he graduated without “employable skills,” he joked, he went to law school.

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Acting in the Best Interest of the Institution

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President Welch (who prefers “Chuck” whenever possible) shared what inspired him to work in the education sector, leadership’s unique perspective, painful decisions for the good of the institution, and the value of authenticity and lived experience.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023 has been a year notable for its ups and downs on the higher education landscape with the elimination of affirmative action and the implosion of President Joe Biden’s student relief program. According to Roberts, mass debt cancellation was under the purview of Congress, not the Secretary of Education.