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A Dynamic Thinker

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Allen spent about a year in corporate law before returning to higher education because, in her “heart and soul,” she was an academic. She says she also taught law at other universities, including Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Pittsburgh Law School. Allen holds a Ph.D.

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Prioritize universal access in AI policy response (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

They decry the thought of students writing lab reports, law school exam responses and even entire term papers simply by putting the essay prompts into ChatGPT, waiting a few moments and then copying the results. Yet, the initial reactions to a foreseeable advance in AI have been to call for higher guardrails to prevent cheating.

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The Faculty Resource Network of New York University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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These leaders’ commitment to DEI got them the nod for president

University Business

He will be arriving this July from Minnesota Law School where he served as dean and set a record-high $106 million in fundraising, mightily surpassing its $80 million target in 2021 and doubling the school’s endowment overall at the end of his tenure. News Ranking’s public law school ranks 18 spots to #6.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

I suspect this pattern of continuous review and adjustment will define all of higher education in this country going forward.” “This will result in both academic and administrative staff changes.

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Why Worry?

Inside Higher Ed

It will change higher education forever. Eroding public confidence in higher education. As I read the higher ed press, I try to find the trendline. Is it that higher education is reeling, that past failures are coming home to roost, and the long-anticipated day of reckoning has at last arrived?

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A legal blow to Internet Archive, controlled digital lending

Inside Higher Ed

Controlled Digital Lending in Higher Ed When librarians in higher education want to know whether an application of controlled digital lending is legal, many consult the Association of Research Librarians’ position statement , which attempts to offer a “good faith interpretation” of U.S. copyright law.