Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 24, 2023

Institutions including New England Law Boston and New York Law School were accused of expending Title IV money on students in unaccredited programs.

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Higher Ed Dive

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Thursday allowing the project to go forward, marking a victory for the public university.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 11, 2024

A group of law school deans are pushing back against a proposal from the American Bar Association’s accrediting arm that would allow fully online law schools to apply for accreditation, the ABA Journal reported last week.

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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. from Georgetown University Law Center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

Rice School of Law. David Beasley Beasley receives the full-time appointment, effective March 1, as Distinguished Professor of Practice and Public Service in the law school’s Department of Legal Studies. Rice School of Law. William Hubbard “Little did I know the challenges and adventures I was being prepared for in law school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Utah higher education leaders are considering steps toward compliance with a new law, HB 261 , that prohibits an institution of higher education, public education system, and governmental employer from engaging in discriminatory practices. Katy Hall Such prohibited practices include diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

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Higher Ed Dive

MAY 19, 2023

An American Bar Association survey last year showed law students favored distance learning classes over those in person.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 2, 2024

A recent study revealed a significant decline in racial diversity among law students in states that have banned race-conscious admission over the past 30 years. Conducted by law professors from Yale University, New York University, and Northwestern University, the study is entitled “Affirmative Action and Racial Diversity in U.S.

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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. Legal scholars write about law. political science, Stanford University; M.A.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Testy has been appointed executive director and CEO of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Testy, the current president and CEO of the Law School Admission Council, begins her new role effective July 1. She began her career as a law professor at the University of Puget Sound in 1992, which then became Seattle University.

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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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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 3, 2023

Other law school deans aren’t satisfied, either. The magazine also said it has no intention of ending its rankings system.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 4, 2024

Law Mandates Campus Polling Sites. Johanna Alonso Mon, 03/04/2024 - 03:00 AM Activists were excited about a law requiring polling places on campuses with more than 300 registered voters. Why Are There Still So Few? But its implementation has proven slow and erratic. Byline(s) Johanna Alonso

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

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. Department of Education.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Liberty Flouted Federal Law on Crime Reporting Josh Moody Wed, 10/04/2023 - 03:00 AM Preliminary findings from a Department of Education investigation of the evangelical university indicate years of missteps on issues of sexual misconduct. Byline(s) Josh Moody

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

By Megan Zahneis Illustration by The Chronicle; Photos by iStock The law's provisions have raised fears of intrusion into academic freedom and other possible unintended consequences.

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Higher Ed Dive

MAY 31, 2023

Kay Ivey signed legislation expanding a 2021 law barring transgender K-12 students from playing on sports teams aligned with their gender identities.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The law school class of 2023, admitted before the U.S. The Law School Admission Council’s (LSAC) analysis of ABA data reveals that 40% of the current law school class are students of color, up from 39% in 2022, marking a third year of record diversity. of the first-year class. percentage points from 2022 to 2023. .

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 17, 2023

The number of students admitted into law schools rose in 2022, marking the first increase in seven years, according to a new report by the nonprofit AccessLex Institute. However, the data shows some progress for law schools in recruiting and retaining underrepresented individuals.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In California, New Debate Over an Old Funding Law jessica.blake@… Tue, 09/12/2023 - 03:00 AM The Fifty Percent Law, enacted more than 50 years ago, requires community colleges in the state to spend at least half their budget on instruction. Byline(s) Jessica Blake

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 9, 2023

law firm with over 1,200 lawyers, has become the second firm to expand the eligibility criteria for its diversity fellowship program in the wake of a discrimination lawsuit. ” The post Second Law Firm Opens Diversity Program to All Following Lawsuit appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity. . Perkins Coie, a major U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The annual National Black Pre-Law Conference and Law Fair will take place next week at Harvard University. Evangeline Mitchell Now in its 19th year, the event is designed to help increase the number of African American law school applications, students and graduates nationwide.

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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. Crump College of Law,” Crump said. “We

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Higher Ed Dive

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Berkeley, Columbia and Georgetown law schools joined a roster of institutions rejecting the rankings that started Wednesday with Yale and Harvard.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 14, 2023

Staffing shortages and software issues at a vendor cause headaches for would-be law students taking the LSAT. Thousands of students trying to take the Law School Admission Test remotely were thwarted Friday and Saturday by problems with the proctoring service the Law School Admission Council used for the first time this year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School (AJMLS) and Morris Brown College are partnering for a law school pipeline. “We We are ecstatic to partner with Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School,” said Morris Brown President Dr. Kevin James. Gatewood, Dean and CEO of AJMLS.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Law schools must adopt free speech policies to maintain their accreditation under a requirement approved by the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates Monday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2023

Last week, Governor Jared Polis signed into law a bill that offers significant sentence reductions to non-violent offenders who complete educational programs. Although several states have laws allowing sentence reductions for education, experts said that they reduce sentences by days and months, rather than years.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Morrison Foerster, a corporate law firm, has revised its diversity fellowship criteria to open the program to students of all races after being sued by a conservative group for alleged racial discrimination. The post Law Firm Opens Diversity Fellowship to All Students After Discrimination Suit appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Supreme Court Justice John Marshall from its law school’s name. The Cleveland-Marshall College of Law will now be known as the CSU College of Law, according to a university news release. Marshall’s writings, decisions and judicial legacy remain an important part of our curriculum and a CSU Law education.”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

Department of Education (ED) has announced settlements with five freestanding law schools accused of improperly disbursing federal financial aid to students in unaccredited program. The American Bar Association often accredits Juris Doctor programs, but not Master of Laws programs, which require separate accreditation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

When Reagan Gonzalez began applying to law schools, she didn’t imagine that she would have to research the laws of the states to which she was thinking about moving. But now, after each state passed laws restricting LGBTQ+ rights, Gonzalez plans to cross them off her list. “I That shouldn’t be a part of it.”

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 5, 2024

Department of Education wants to send the message that it will hold colleges accountable for Clery Act noncompliance, an agency official said.

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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. “An

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

Having meaningful relationships with law school faculty and staff is essential for underrepresented racial minority (URMs) students as they decide on law school options, adjust to academic environments, and negotiate in-school experiences, a recent study found. law schools. law schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

As of April 3, 417 anti-LGBTQ+ laws had been proposed this year, according to the ACLU, with 283 of them relating to education. The North Dakota state legislature has proposed 17 anti-LGBTQ+ laws this year, according to the ACLU, and this April, Gov. Terry emphasizes that it’s not just about the few laws that pass. says Terry.

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