Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

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. Williams enrolled at what was then called Richmond College in 1848. He acknowledged that a $3.4

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

Now, two years after advising Trump during that deadly insurrection, Martin is slated to serve as the founding dean of the High Point University School of Law in North Carolina, which is set to open in 2024. Instead, the press release cited higher education leaders who heaped praise on the incoming dean.

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

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

Johanna Bond will become dean of Rutgers Law School, effective Jul. Johanna Bond Bond is currently the tenured Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and an affiliate faculty member in the university’s Africana Studies and the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2024

I wrote a dissertation on a topic so untrammeled, Catholic women’s higher education, that there were no books from which to plagiarize. Seize the opportunity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The College of Law at St. Crump College of Law, making the law school the U.S.’s Crump College of Law at St. Thomas University is the latest step in an effort to encourage bridge-building among the legal profession, law enforcement, and our communities," said David A. Benjamin L. The only other U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

Alexander has always been interested in the realms of law, politics, and democracy. He said it was one of the reasons he went to law school. So much of my career I did my scholarship in the field of election law,” said Alexander, the Arthur J. Kania Dean and Professor of Law at Villanova University.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The Graduate Record Examination is now accepted at 100 law schools , more than half of the 199 American law schools accredited by the American Bar Association. The Educational Testing Service first promoted the GRE for use in law school admissions in 2016, when the University of Arizona did so.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Rehan Staton became a viral media sensation on his admission, and film-maker Tyler Perry covered his tuition fees The man who worked as a trash hauler in Maryland before earning international news headlines by gaining admission into the prestigious Harvard Law School has graduated.

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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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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

Ryan, The Boston Globe, Getty Images Harvard Medical School. Like the law-school leaders before him, the Harvard dean George Q. By Francie Diep. Daley said rankings create perverse incentives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Olivas Award, a national award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) that recognizes leadership and mentorship in diversity and mentoring in the legal academy. Johnson Johnson is law school dean, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law, and professor of Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis. “I

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University Business

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Ron DeSantis has been at the epicenter of higher education this past year. In K12 and higher ed, the term “woke” has plunged education into a muddy existential battle. Only two higher education administrators agreed to the interview. “He is taking names. . “He is taking names.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

2 emerging law school recruitment challenges – and how to address them. In the last 20 years, law school enrollment has been anything but consistent. In just a five-year period, from 2010 to 2015, the number of first-year law students decreased by more than 29%. For the 2022 cycle, law school applications are down.

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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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The Chronicle of Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2023

News' rankings methods have encouraged the neglect of low-income students. By Tamara F. Lawson and Heather K. Gerken Illustration by The Chronicle U.S. News rankings methods have encouraged the neglect of low-income students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

All higher education professionals from HBCUs across the country, we are among the inaugural cohort of Teaching in an Inequitable Society fellows, sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children Black Caucus and the Institute for the Study of Modern-Day Slavery at Tougaloo College. Dr. Cheron H.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

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

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Throughout history, Black Americans have endured a long, tedious journey in achieving educational opportunities. Mary Frances Berry focuses on U.S. These were just a few. Similarly, 49.2%

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Throughout history, Black Americans have endured a long, tedious journey in achieving educational opportunities. Mary Frances Berry focuses on U.S. These were just a few. Similarly, 49.2%

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The dean said the magazine’s formula discourages schools from admitting low-income students and supporting students interested in public service. By Francie Diep.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

By Francie Diep Illustration by The Chronicle Top-ranked institutions can afford to take risks that others can’t.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2024

from Harvard Law School. Jonathan Alger Jonathan Alger has been appointed president of American University. He served as president of James Madison University. Alger holds a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College and a J.D.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

By Francie Diep. Yale’s dean argued that the ranking's formula discourages institutions from admitting low-income students and supporting careers in public service.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2024

The percentage of recent law school graduates employed in full-time, long-term Bar Passage Required or J.D. For the class of 2023, the aggregated school data shows that 30,160 graduates, or 85.6% of the 2023 graduates of the 195 ABA-approved law schools, were employed in full-time, long-term Bar Passage Required or J.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 2, 2023

As widely predicted , the ruling reversed 40 years of legal precedent that protected race-conscious admissions in higher education. Earlier decisions allowed schools to use race as one of many factors that college admissions officers could consider when conducting a holistic review of applicants.

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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. She is a scholar who specializes in health law.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

Moving the university forward through challenges and opportunities in present-day higher education requires a leadership with specific credentials, said James Benham, vice chair of Texas Southern’s Board of Regents and chair of the presidential search committee. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

School: University of Mississippi Year: Senior Major: Legal Studies Outdoor track & field season brought University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) sprinter Olivia Womack to the realization that every moment counts. Female Sports Scholar is bound for law school in the fall. The 2024 Arthur Ashe Jr. She’s a great leader.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

higher education ever since. Oppenheimer spoke with Inside Higher Ed by phone. Also, schools like Princeton and Dartmouth did not have as many professional schools. Excerpts of the conversation follow, edited for length and clarity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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. Okediji has been appointed the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University.

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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

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. Higher education is where I learned to see and understand the world in a new way and was given the space to identify where my passions lie. Rosenbury holds a B.A.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2024

A polarized and very public controversy has followed During a dinner for students that the dean of the University of California, Berkeley law school held in his house’s backyard earlier this month, a woman wearing a hijab and checkered Palestinian scarf suddenly stood up with a microphone and amplifier.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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. Louis, and a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

12 December · Episode 185 AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education 49 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students.

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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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