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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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Cleveland-Marshall College of Law will now be known as the CSU College of Law, according to a university news release. The decision comes after an ad hoc committee recommended the university rebrand the law school to cut association with Marshall due to his history of owning enslaved people.

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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.

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JUNE 1, 2023

Brown, in the twilight of an 18-year career at Boston University, wrote a searing article scolding his student body for the way it received spring commencement speaker and alumnus David Zaslav during the ceremony. “History teaches us that this is a temptation to be avoided.” Zaslav, the president and CEO of Warner Bros.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2024

Claudine Gay, who made history when she was named the first Black president of Harvard University six months ago, resigned from the university on Tuesday amid a flurry of allegations involving plagiarism and concerns over her handling of antisemitism on campus. "A Jones, who is a graduate of Harvard's Law School. "In

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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. Under her leadership, the law school increased its national profile, created new programming and pulled in more funding and resources.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schools’ histories. Mills’ extensive involvement with the university since 1999 put her at the forefront of the race. in health policy in 1994 from Brandeis University. Mount Union (Ohio), St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Multiple university presidents issued public statements condemning the attacks. Tomasi began the discussion by quoting from the Kalven Report on the University’s Role in Political and Social Action, issued in 1967, which remains relevant. “A There is a long history of university leaders not being neutral,” noted Tomasi. “In

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

Crawford III was selected as the sole finalist for president of Texas Southern University. Throughout this process, I have learned so much about Texas Southern University, and I am honored to join this esteemed institution with such a rich history,” said Crawford. “I James Crawford III James W. The sky is the limit.”

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Several of them are also coming in as either the first woman or the first of their race or ethnicity to lead their school. Other notable mentions: Dr. Stuart Rayfield, Columbus State University Dr. Cheryl McConnell, Saint Joseph’s University, the school’s first female president. ” Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As attorney general, he secured the largest opiate settlement payment in state history and hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements from corporations for preying on New Mexicans. Balderas holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from New Mexico Highlands University and a J.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Image: Stanford University’s president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, and the dean of its law school, Jenny Martinez, issued a joint apology Saturday to a federal appeals court judge whose speech Thursday was repeatedly heckled by students in the audience. Duncan was a target because he has a history of anti-LGBT activism.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

A full recording has emerged of students at Stanford University law school disrupting a talk by Judge Kyle Duncan of the U.S. Duncan was a target because he has a history of anti-LGBT activism. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The audio recording was reproduced by David Lat for the legal blog Original Jurisdiction.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Lawmakers across the country tried to enact 563 measures to restrict the teaching of “critical race theory” from 2021 to 2022, according to a new report from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 18, 2022

But FIRE, ever hopeful that change could yet be on the horizon, hopes a strong (albeit imperfect) statement last week from Yale Law School’s dean could usher in that long-awaited era. FIRE remains hopeful the broader university’s dark, censorious days may soon be history. Almost 1,500 people have signed it to date.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

In November 2021, during a special legislative session to address redistricting and infrastructure, the North Dakota Legislative Assembly passed House Bill 1508 banning the teaching of critical race theory in public schools. ” He added, “We will not teach institutionalized bigotry promoted by the left. opposing the legislation.

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University Business

AUGUST 7, 2023

Rob Vischer took over the University of St. Thomas in January during a pivotal period in its 139-year history. Thomas is now the largest private university in Minnesota and is eyeing to expand its influence across state and national lines. Thomas maintain positive growth as a religiously affiliated university?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Brian Rosenberg, president emeritus of Macalester College and a visiting professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has written the best article that I’ve read on the recent decision by leading law schools to boycott the US News ratings. Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. College ratings take various forms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

This is driving the way people vote, it’s driving what school boards do, it’s driving what governors do. They also call for the teaching of unvarnished history in schools—a call echoed in another essay about the “parents’ rights” movement, which has made swift progress in censoring “controversial” racial topics.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 26, 2023

Painter—forced the university’s segregated law school to admit him, only after the state had tried to fund Black students to attend law schools out of state and had built an alternative law school at an HBCU, Texas Southern University in Houston. history requirement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

In 2024, I celebrate an anniversary that is special to me, 25 years of close affiliation with America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), especially those in my home state of Mississippi. Her life was palpably in danger every day that she integrated the University of Mississippi’s law school.

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Today's Learner

APRIL 12, 2023

DEI and CRT are not the same Colleges and universities started having hard conversations and implementing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion trainings. For example, if colleges and universities do not implement DEI training, imagine the impact this will have on our students. The confessions did not offend me.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2023

and Grace Stokes professor at New York University Law School. They broadly agreed that the plaintiffs who are suing Harvard and the University of North Carolina, claiming that their affirmative action policies discriminate against Asian Americans, do not represent the views of that group as a whole.

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University Business

JULY 31, 2023

Following the California State System’s high-profile hire of Mildred García as chancellor over two weeks ago, two major university presidents at Texas A&M and Stanford caught the national radar following their high-profile resignations. Katherine Banks – Texas A&M University M.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Image: Belmont University, a private Christian institution in Nashville, Tenn., 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. It’s one of the things that makes Belmont great.

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GlobalHigherEd

APRIL 18, 2017

Editor’s note : this guest entry, also posted on Inside Higher Ed , has been kindly developed by Sejal Parmar , Assistant Professor at the Department of Legal Studies and a core faculty member of the Center for Media, Data and Society at the School of Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Presented with two cases about race-conscious admissions – one regarding the University of North Carolina and the other involving Harvard University — the conservative-leaning court ruled along partisan lines that the two schools’ affirmative action programs violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

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MARCH 31, 2023

Over the past two weeks, the higher education landscape has seen a handful of shifts in school leadership. Some individuals decided to assume the presidency at another school and one who took a step down to pursue their dream job. Cole, will become the president of Loyola University New Orleans. First-time president Xavier A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

The bumpy bus ride from Tougaloo College, Mississippi’s private Historically Black College or University that boasts the production of over 40% of the state’s Black physicians and dentists, is punctuated by a steady flow of thick, balmy air desperately trying to provide relief while obviously in need of a refrigerant top-off. “And

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

Resolutions and Safe Spaces — Adelphi University. Adelphi University’s Office of Community Concerns and Resolution was established in fall 2021 to simplify and enhance the system for reporting discrimination, bias, and abuse. AmeriCorps Tutors for Youth — Arkansas State University.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough? New tools.

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MAY 4, 2023

On this week’s episode of The World of Higher Education Podcast , Bryan Alexander joins us to talk about his new book, Universities on Fire, Higher Education in the Climate Crisis , which was published in March by Johns Hopkins University Press. AU: Bryan, you’ve written a book about universities and the climate crisis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

As university administrators and admissions officers scramble to comply with the Supreme Court’s opinion, here’s the counterintuitive way out. My mere presence at “that school in Boston” did not persuade young Roberts of the merits of diversity. In other words, I was born into Filipino American history. Be color blind.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The History of Higher Ed for Incarcerated Students. In the early ‘90s, there were more than 770 college and university programs in nearly 1,300 prisons nationwide , all thanks to funding from the Pell Grant. Take the Higher Education in Prison program at Portland State University.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 19, 2022

history, having “been sued a whopping 134 times in federal court since his inauguration, which is nearly three times the number of lawsuits our three previous presidents have faced in the early months of their administration combined. Timothy Zick, “ The First Amendment in the Trump Era ” (Oxford University Press, 2019).

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