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Testy Appointed to Lead the Association of American Law Schools

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Testy has been appointed executive director and CEO of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Testy, the current president and CEO of the Law School Admission Council, begins her new role effective July 1. She also chaired the planning committee for the AALS Workshop for New Law School Teachers in 2010.

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The Faculty Resource Network of New York University

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As a scholar engaged in legal research, the law library of New York University School of Law, ranked in the top ten of law schools, affords one bountiful offerings of legal research tools such as HeinOnline, Lexis Plus, VitalLaw, Law Journal Library and Proquest that are not available at primarily undergraduate institutions such as my own.

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Anti-Apartheid Advocate and Human Rights Activist Randall Robinson Dies at 81

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from Harvard Law School – also spent time teaching as a professor of human rights law at Penn State University. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable," Robinson said in 2005. “We He was also founder and president of foreign policy advocacy organization TransAfrica. Robinson – he held a J.D.

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A legal blow to Internet Archive, controlled digital lending

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” Controlled Digital Lending at the Internet Archive The Internet Archive began digitizing print books for online lending in 2005 and scans 4,300 books per day in 18 locations around the world, according to its website. But the university does not elaborate on what constitutes a “reasonable” price.

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President’s corner: How Rob Vischer balances growth with century-old values at University of St. Thomas

University Business

Rob Vischer took over the University of St. Thomas is now the largest private university in Minnesota and is eyeing to expand its influence across state and national lines. As undergraduate enrollment at Minnesota colleges and universities has dropped by almost a third over the past decade, Vischer reported St.

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2022: Year in Review

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Enrollment remained down at every level from community colleges to graduate schools, but much of academia showed its persistence and resilience. With the COVID-19 pandemic subsiding, colleges and universities have tried to bring students back to campus and provide fresh inspiration.

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2023 Year in Review

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Presented with two cases about race-conscious admissions – one regarding the University of North Carolina and the other involving Harvard University — the conservative-leaning court ruled along partisan lines that the two schools’ affirmative action programs violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.