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Law school "denaming" sparks donor debacle

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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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Struggling law school seeks to reinvent itself

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South Royalton’s main claim to fame, however, is that it is home to the Green Mountain State’s only law school. Vermont Law School has doled out juris doctor degrees to students from across New England and beyond since 1972. Now, the only college in Vermont that offers a J.D. Interest in J.D.

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

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These colleges may all be well over a hundred years old, but there is still a first time for everything: Mount Holyoke (Mass.), Norbert College (Wis.) and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schoolshistories. Norbert College all fall somewhere around 2,000.

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Mount Holyoke Taps Howard University Law Dean to Lead College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Danielle Ren Holley, president-elect of Mount Holyoke College. The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. Danielle Ren Holley, current dean and professor of law at Howard University.

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Yale Law dean’s message to alumni promises free speech changes. We’re (very) cautiously optimistic.

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These transgressions, and more, earned Yale FIRE’s 2022 Lifetime Censorship Award and surely contributed to its almost-dead-last showing in our College Free Speech Rankings. FIRE remains hopeful the broader university’s dark, censorious days may soon be history. Almost 1,500 people have signed it to date.

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Belmont plans to hire Jewish faculty for the first time

Inside Higher Ed

Some scholars, in and outside the institution, believe the change moves the university too far from its Christian roots, while others say the policy isn’t inclusive enough, embracing one faith community to the exclusion of others. It also can lead to a lack of consensus on things like this.”

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Panelists Discuss What a Post-Affirmative Action America Would Look Like

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

and Grace Stokes professor at New York University Law School. They broadly agreed that the plaintiffs who are suing Harvard and the University of North Carolina, claiming that their affirmative action policies discriminate against Asian Americans, do not represent the views of that group as a whole. You can bet money on it.”