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ED Settles With Law Schools Accused of Improperly Disbursing Aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education (ED) has announced settlements with five freestanding law schools accused of improperly disbursing federal financial aid to students in unaccredited program. million of federal funding to 92 students between July 2017 and June 2022 that it was not allowed to give.

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U.S. Fines Law Schools Over Financial Aid Violations

Inside Higher Ed

Department of Education has settled with five free-standing law schools after an investigation showed that those institutions “improperly disbursed” federal financial aid to students enrolled in unaccredited master of laws programs.

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Why did these 5 law schools improperly disburse over $2 million in financial aid?

University Business

Federal Student Aid discovered five law schools that improperly disbursed $2.9 The Department of Education has subsequently fined three of the institutions and has requested from all five reimbursements for the allotted funds. programs, and FSA found these five law schools disbursing Title IV funds for their LL.M

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Struggling law school seeks to reinvent itself

Inside Higher Ed

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. Vermont Law School is no different. Interest in J.D. Interest in J.D.

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University of Virginia Law Establishes Education Rights Institute

Insight Into Diversity

The University of Virginia School of Law is launching a new Education Rights Institute to enhance understanding, scholarship, and resources for K-20 schools and disadvantaged students. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law and director of the law school’s Center for the Study of Race and Law.

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Adapting to criticism and college opt-outs, U.S. News teases its latest rankings

University Business

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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The U.S. News exodus never happened. How did the top ranking service outlast naysayers?

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Yale Law School’s decision to stop participating with the seminal college ranking service in November prompted a wave of other prestigious graduate programs to follow through; at least a dozen medical schools and 40+ law schools quit participating. News found itself in on the back heel. he recalled using U.S.