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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

Bollinger decision in 2003. Graduates of selective institutions constitute a sizable portion of the nation’s leaders, including Supreme Court justices, where eight out of nine members of the current Court graduated from Harvard or Yale Law schools. That gets to the question of national opinion polls on affirmative action.

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The End of Affirmative Action

Inside Higher Ed

Bollinger, a case from 2003, the Supreme Court approved the use of race as a factor in college admission in order to produce a diverse student body. Second, the Court has moved decisively to the right since Grutter was decided in 2003. 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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While in law school, he was a founding member of the Journal of Gender Law & Policy and served as the Vice President of the Duke Bar Association. A Sloan Foundation Graduate Fellowship funded his studies at both Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and Duke University. President Sorrell B.A.

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Pepperdine law dean talks openly about his stutter

Inside Higher Ed

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. Caron said he gravitated toward and eventually ended up working professionally in tax law, given its research-intensive nature.

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Acting in the Best Interest of the Institution

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Learning Leadership by Example In describing his leadership style, President Welch recalled a few pivotal moments early in his academic career: “I was going to go to law school to be a politician. I had been president of the student body in high school, and then I became president of the student body at the University of Arkansas.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

On June 30, the Supreme Court struck down the measure, which was based on the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act of 2003. Professor Ogletree was a once-in-a-century kind of law professor,” said Amos Jones, an attorney who served as Ogletree’s research assistant during his time as a student at Harvard Law School.