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Law school "denaming" sparks donor debacle

Inside Higher Ed

Williams from its law school, Williams’s descendants were irate. Richmond president Kevin Hallock broke the news to Robert Smith, Williams’s great-great-grandson and a graduate of the law school, over the phone. “History and posterity will judge the University and the Board.”

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Full Recording of Judge’s Disrupted Stanford Talk

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A full recording has emerged of students at Stanford University law school disrupting a talk by Judge Kyle Duncan of the U.S. The audio recording was reproduced by David Lat for the legal blog Original Jurisdiction. Duncan was a target because he has a history of anti-LGBT activism. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

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Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members.

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700,000 incarcerated students will be Pell-eligible in 2023. Here’s what that could mean for your institution

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The History of Higher Ed for Incarcerated Students. 2 emerging law school recruitment challenges – and how to address them. 700,000 incarcerated students will be Pell-eligible in 2023. Here’s what that could mean for your institution. Struggling to set graduate enrollment goals? Here’s our step-by-step guide. November 14, 2022.

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What can big consumer brands teach graduate and adult enrollment leaders?

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Your creditors use your purchasing history to identify new transactions that are unusual and potentially fraudulent. Interest in online law programs is growing—here’s how 2 law schools are entering the online market. What can big consumer brands teach graduate and adult enrollment leaders? October 14, 2022.

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Who You Gonna Believe?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A now forgotten turn-of-the-20th-century song, “Do You Believe Your Baby or Your Eyes?” Some law schools admit less qualified students on a part-time or probationary status to exclude them from the rankings that look exclusively at full-time students. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Why Worry?

Inside Higher Ed

The defenses of the Stanford law student protests by a number of prominent faculty members – who say they share the students’ concerns, if not their methods – add to anxieties about whether campuses, especially the most elite, will defend free speech. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.