Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

More medical and law schools have announced that they are leaving the U.S. The medical schools of Cornell University and the University of Chicago are the latest to join the movement. They said, “Our overriding concern is to help address and reduce inequities in medical school education.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The law schools of the University of Chicago and Cornell University may not love the U.S. The ranking is not our guide, and I prefer to shine a light on the substantive attributes that make our Law School the home of the most intellectually ambitious faculty and the most powerful legal education. News ranking.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Magill will remain a tenured faculty member at the university’s Carey Law School. Meanwhile, more than 700 hundred Harvard faculty signed on to a letter in defense of the university’s president, Dr. Claudine Gay, as some lawmakers and alumni are calling for her resignation just months into her term.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

News" is devaluing faculty expertise at the worst possible time. News is devaluing faculty expertise at the worst possible time. By Brian Soucek Derek Brahney for The Chronicle U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Image: North Dakota’s House majority leader has introduced legislation that would let presidents of at least two colleges, Dickinson State University and Bismarck State College, fire tenured faculty members based on those presidents’ own, unappealable reviews. ” Those are issues taxpayers and students may be interested in.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

As a scholar engaged in legal research, the law library of New York University School of Law, ranked in the top ten of law schools, affords one bountiful offerings of legal research tools such as HeinOnline, Lexis Plus, VitalLaw, Law Journal Library and Proquest that are not available at primarily undergraduate institutions such as my own.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. ” That is, undergraduate programs with fewer than 12 students per full-time faculty member over a period of five years are no longer accepting new students.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Joan Bullock in September sued the university’s board of regents in Houston federal court, claiming she was ousted in June without cause and stripped of her tenured faculty position afterward even though male deans in the past were allowed to remain on the faculty after their deanships ended. Read more on Reuters.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Okediji has been appointed the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Okediji holds a Bachelor of Law degree from University of Jos in Nigeria as well as a master’s and a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A group of professors at the University of California, Berkeley, Law School signed a statement protesting a decision by some student groups to adopt a bylaw not to host Zionist speakers. “We hereby endorse the principle of free and open speech at the law school,” the statement reads.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2024

Edley spent more than two decades as a professor at Harvard Law School, where he and Orfield founded the Civil Rights Project in the aftermath of a 1996 court ruling that squelched race-conscious admission policies at many universities. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against the UT practices. Orrick, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

An American Bar Association plan to strengthen job protections for untenured law faculty has been received positively by legal writing and clinical professors. The American Bar Association has proposed changes to standards to strengthen job protections for untenured law faculty. The proffer — offered initially in a Nov.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

plans to break a long-standing tradition of only hiring Christian instructors by opening some faculty positions to Jewish candidates. University leaders recently announced they’re specifically recruiting Jewish faculty members to teach in three of its graduate programs, hopefully as early as this spring.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Title: Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Tenured: Yes Age: 38 Education: B.A., Yale Law School Career mentors: Amna Akbar, The Ohio State University; Guy-Uriel Charles, Harvard Law School; and Devon Carbado, UCLA. political science, Stanford University; M.A.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Our law school is committed to contributing to efforts to uphold LGBTQI+ rights locally, regionally and nationally in collaboration with stakeholders and advocates,” said Osofsky. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and gender studies from Indiana University and a law degree from The University of Chicago Law School.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2024

Jones, who is a graduate of Harvard's Law School. "In Claudine Gay Jones floated Danielle Holley, the current president of Mount Holyoke College and the former dean of Howard University's Law School as a worthy successor to Gay. And now, the 12 Fellows might need to resign, too. Garner has been named interim president.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

Through the Veterans Legal Clinic (VLC), students at the University of Michigan (U-M) Law School provide critical services for local veterans and at the same time gain valuable, real-world experience in the civil court system. We really take on any kind of civil legal case for a veteran, especially one that might go to court.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

James’ illustrious career as one of the highest-ranking attorneys in the country, while overseeing a substantial team of professionals will serve our university and law school well into the future.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2023

“Professor Ogletree was a once-in-a-century kind of law professor,” said Amos Jones, a Washington, D.C.-based based attorney who served as Ogletree’s research assistant during his time as a student at Harvard Law School. “He After Stanford, he attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1978. Professor of Law.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

The College of Law is compliant with all other standards for accreditation, and will remain accredited throughout the process of addressing its compliance, according to an email sent from Provost Robert DiPaola to students and faculty.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

(Photo courtesy of the University of Kentucky) As part of a recently established partnership between Simmons College of Kentucky, a Louisville-based HBCU, and the University of Kentucky (UK), the institutions are creating a pre-law constitutional studies program at Simmons, which has not had a law school since the 1930s.

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University Business

APRIL 12, 2023

News chose this time around to pay closer attention to the student experience and career opportunities each school has to offer. Consequently, they increased the weight of the faculty/student ratio in its medical school ranking. For its law schools, they increased the weight of employment 10 months after graduating.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2023

Nyre’s departure stems from disagreements with some board of regents members over governance problems involving Seton Hall Law School, USA TODAY Network New Jersey reported. Late last year, Seton Hall announced that some trusted, long-time employees of the law school embezzled more than $975,000 over several years.

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The Berkeley Blog

MAY 8, 2023

A number of high-profile law schools in the US recently announced they will no longer participate in one commercial ranking; Dutch universities have begun a move away from using rankings and citation indexes for evaluating university performance, and that of their faculty. China, home. Continue reading »

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2023

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, a master’s from the University of London, and a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School, where he was an NAACP Legal Defense Fund Scholar and an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

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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.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

“I’m very elated that former North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Patricia Timmons-Goodson will be joining our team at NCCU and look forward to working with her and her team as we advance the mission of the law school by preparing a significant cadre of the nation’s future jurists,” said Dr. David H. Jackson, Jr.,

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

As Dean of the Faculty, she reviewed their recruitment, appointment and promotion; additionally, she oversaw the budget, personnel and graduate programs across multiple academic departments. she helped broaden the school’s admission of diverse students, specifically those of first-generation standing. Rosenbury received her A.B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

On my father’s side of the family, I’m a third-generation college graduate whose aunt was a law school professor. Building a teaching and college workforce — not just adjuncts and junior staff but full-time tenured faculty and senior institutional leaders — that looks like the students we serve can help us to live up to that goal.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute : Karen Levy, associate professor in the department of information science at Cornell University and associated faculty at Cornell Law School, explores how the trucking industry is modernizing—and whether it is for the better. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Hide by line?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I’m honored that the regents, faculty and staff will collaborate with me as we take on Northern New Mexico College into the future, building on student success and institutional development. from the University of New Mexico Law School. . “I’m inspired that the community is getting involved in our planning process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Allen spent about a year in corporate law before returning to higher education because, in her “heart and soul,” she was an academic. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Penn Carey Law School, has had a storied career in the fields of law, bioethics, data protection, and privacy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

Multiple faculty and staff speakers told their stories of being targeted for their work. This kind of harassment – such as emails, social media, and death threats – is pervasive and can lead to censorship of faculty work, the panelists said. Bernard Professor at George Washington University’s Law School. and Barbara A.

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University Business

DECEMBER 12, 2023

His interest in divorcing higher education from what he perceives as a far-left agenda antithetical to American democracy has invited judges, faculty and administration, and similarly skeptical conservatives across state lines to deliberate on the current state of higher education. “He is taking names. “Be wary and be aware.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Law school students are increasingly both satisfied and comfortable with online learning, according to the 2022 Law School Survey of Student Engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

At UF, she also taught feminist legal theory, employment discrimination, children and law, and family law as Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law. from Harvard Law School. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and Judge Dennis Jacobs of the U.S. Rosenbury holds a B.A.

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