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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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Former Governor Joins Alma Mater's Law School Faculty

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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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Emerging leaders: 4 colleges hire their first Black or female—or both—president

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Danielle Ren Holley: Mount Holyoke College Before being reined as the 20th president of Mount Holyoke College, she was busy revitalizing Howard University’s school of law as dean and professor. She also earned awards with the Association of American Law Schools and the National Bar Association, to name a few honors.

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Most universities are charities: so what?

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The University-Charity is not purely a law book, however. Leading charity lawyer, Hubert Picarda KC notes that ‘university lawyers will be grateful for the implicit assistance and guidance that this well thought out and impressive book provides’. It offers a new perspective for university governors, leaders and academics alike.

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President moves: hearty welcomes and rocky goodbyes

University Business

From 2017 to 2022, he was vice chair and director of the education committee on the board of Messmer Catholic Schools, a K12 network of Catholic schools serving Milwaukee’s north and west sides. Before Alverno College, Foy served as Dean of the Faculty at Marian University in Wisconsin from 2018 to 2020.

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Pepperdine law dean talks openly about his stutter

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Today, Caron is dean of law at Pepperdine University. He still stutters: he participated in speech therapy as a child and again at the behest of his law firm early in his career, but the speech disorder remained. ” ‘I Made It Work’ Caron didn’t always intend to be a dean, or a professor, or even a lawyer.

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Incidents on AU campus prompt look into policy

Inside Higher Ed

University leaders responded with an email to the campus denouncing the incident and announcing that the Office of the Dean of Students would investigate and determine whether the incident constituted a violation of the university code of conduct. ” A Look Back American has seen its fair share of such events in recent years.

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