Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

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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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Experts think the answer is probably not, but they see cracks in the foundation of a rankings system college admissions professionals largely abhor.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2023

Federal Student Aid discovered five law schools that improperly disbursed $2.9 Albany Law School, Atlanta’s John Marshall School of Law, Brooklyn Law School, New England Law–Boston, and New York Law School are considered freestanding law schools, meaning they are not part of a broader university system with institutional accreditation.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

News & World Report’s rankings of the best law schools. The movement was initiated by Yale University last Wednesday when the school’s dean announced that the institution will no longer submit its data for review. News will therefore continue to rank the nearly 200 accredited law schools in the United States.”

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Williams from its law school, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. Williams School of Law is now called the University of Richmond School of Law. Williams, who attended the institution from 1846 to 1849 when it was Richmond College, was a trustee and a benefactor whose gift helped establish the law school.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The University of Michigan law school said it is dropping out of the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of colleges and universities , joining others including Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, Stanford and University of California at Berkeley that no longer will participate in the outlet’s rankings process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Davidson has been appointed president and dean of Southern Illinois University’s Mitchell Hamline School of Law, effective July 1. Davidson serves as professor of law at the law school and has served as dean at SIU Law since July 2020. from Georgetown University Law Center. House of Representatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2023

has been tapped to become dean of the Howard University School of Law. Fairfax is a passionate legal educator whose extensive scholarship and commitment to criminal justice reform are deeply aligned with the law school’s mission,” said Howard President Dr. Ben Vinson III, who announced the appointment effective July 1, 2024.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In recent agency research, a young first-generation Hispanic college student shared that she was initially not going to attend college because she did not know what to study. Instead of signing up for college to explore options and find her path, the young Hispanic student was going to just start working.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Supreme Court Justice John Marshall from its law school’s name. The Cleveland-Marshall College of Law will now be known as the CSU College of Law, according to a university news release. Marshall’s writings, decisions and judicial legacy remain an important part of our curriculum and a CSU Law education.”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Rosenbury will become the next president of Barnard College, effective Jul. Laura Rosenbury Rosenbury, the first woman to serve as dean at University of Florida’s Levin College of Law, is a women and gender legal theorist with experience and expertise on topics such as reproductive rights, children’s rights, and sexual harassment and abuse.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

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 schools’ histories. Norbert College all fall somewhere around 2,000.

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University Business

APRIL 12, 2023

Following harsh criticism from the nation’s top medical schools and the Department of Education, U.S. News and World Report is set to release its law and medical school: research rankings next week with an updated methodology and a reliance on public information from schools that now refuse to participate.

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University Business

MARCH 1, 2023

The stream of graduate schools opting out of the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings may be growing to include entire universities, but what these schools will do to market themselves effectively remains unanswered. When Yale Law School opted out in November, a flood of other law schools, such as U.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Delisle Warden Delisle Warden has been appointed vice president for policy and general counsel at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland. He served as associate dean for the Center for Professional Development and Career Strategy at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

Community service and institution-wide partnerships are key tools being used by two historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), among other schools, to address long-standing inequities in the criminal justice system and legal profession. Simmons College President Kevin W. Per the agreement, the UK J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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 is breaking ground. She will step into her role on July 1, 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Nichols College President Glenn Sulmasy has resigned, following reports that he allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct with several students during his time teaching at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, CNN reported. Sulmasy Nichols had opened an investigation into the retired US Coast Guard captain after news of the allegations broke.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

For years, headlines have warned that the cost of attending college would eventually exceed $100,000-a-year at some institutions. Some selective institutions are expected to hit six figures soon, though such pricing will likely have more of a psychological and political impact than a financial one.

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University Business

APRIL 10, 2023

Forty more law schools, including 12 of the top 14 ranked in the country followed suit. Undergraduate schools, including the Rhode Island School of Design and Colorado College, also decided they would no longer participate in the U.S. The post Colleges are leaving the U.S. News and World Report rankings.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

David Rosenberg College of Law is out of compliance with one American Bar Association standard for accreditation related to finances, the association announced this week. The University of Kentucky J.

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University Business

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The essay has always been integral to a student’s college application. With the pressure to shine in their college essay increasing, students have also become fully aware and accustomed to generative AI to create fluid text. If colleges use the essay purely for an academic gauge, then it’s time for an overhaul.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

When Reagan Gonzalez began applying to law schools, she didn’t imagine that she would have to research the laws of the states to which she was thinking about moving. You don’t feel safe when you start seeing all of these laws getting passed that are attacking the person that you are.” Echo Bodell is another.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Several of them are also coming in as either the first woman or the first of their race or ethnicity to lead their school.

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University Business

JUNE 15, 2023

At a time when race-based admissions are at the forefront of public officials’ agendas, new data published last week suggests that the path to a college degree will soon become one that models equity and fairness. colleges and universities aren’t requiring SAT or ACT scores for fall 2023 admissions.

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University Business

MAY 9, 2023

Stillman College is joining a growing group of colleges and universities that are abandoning the U.S. News Best College rankings. News Best Colleges rankings does not accurately represent the impact that Stillman has on the community, the state or the nation. Read more from WVUA 23.

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University Business

AUGUST 2, 2023

Colleges and universities faced a starkly different admissions process this year with the end of affirmative action and the rise of new generative AI tools like ChatGPT. “We want to level the playing field and provide students with access to many tools,” said Stacy Leeds, dean of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

News & World Report released its latest college rankings yesterday, and colleges are touting their improvements, prevailing against the barrage of criticism it received at the turn of the year. In one month’s time, Rhode Island School of Design, Colorado College and Bard College (N.Y.) all dropped out.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 8, 2024

The clerkship initiative is a 10-week paid summer employment opportunity where first-year Marquette University Law School and University of Wisconsin Law School students are matched with employers from a variety of law firms, departments, and agencies.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 10, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine is pleased to announce the 109 institutions of higher education selected as recipients of the 2023 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award — including those in the community college and law school categories — and the 62 winners of the 2023 Health Professions HEED Award.

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University Business

JANUARY 27, 2023

News & World Report ’s annual ranking of colleges and universities has been a driving force in American higher education. News & World Report calculates its rankings, and whether its results present a distorted picture of what schools really offer their students.

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University Business

AUGUST 11, 2023

News & World Report ’s college rankings, the list of universities proclaiming they want no part of the rankings reads like a “Who’s Who” of American higher education. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, who called college rankings a “ joke ,” urges other institutions to stop worshiping at this “ false altar.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Colorado College announced Monday that it is leaving the rankings produced each year by U.S. It continues to equate academic rigor with high school rank and standardized test scores, a metric that creates perverse incentives for schools to provide ‘merit’ aid at the expense of need-based aid. Here are a few examples.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Central College has added a bachelor of science in chemistry. Rio Salado College is starting a certificate program in real estate. Rutgers University Law School is starting a six-month certificate in cannabis law and business. Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: New academic programs Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

A Stanford University law school dean at the center of a free speech controversy has been placed on leave amid continuing criticism of the March 9 event, at which students shouted down federal judge Kyle Duncan, an anti-LGBTQ+ conservative, who had been invited to speak on campus. Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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University Business

JANUARY 9, 2023

Colleges are dropping the SAT. Law schools are dropping the LSAT. The post College degrees could become obsolete—and it could be the first step in giving your job to someone else appeared first on University Business. Read more on Fortune.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Education Department settles with five law schools over financial aid; a new report explores the role of California's Hispanic-serving community colleges; New College of Florida aims to lure students to a new Odyssey course with free books and food trucks. The following news articles ran in the past week:

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