Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

The latest attack on efforts to support diversity comes in the form of a lawsuit targeting Northwestern University’s law school. The suit accuses the school’s faculty and administration of snubbing high-profile white male applicants. Several years ago, I led the premiere tax law graduate program at NYU.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

In its latest report regarding higher education’s return on investment (ROI), Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce (CEW) has analyzed 186 law schools and found at nearly one-in-five law schools, graduates’ net take-home pay after student loan payments averages at $55,000.

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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

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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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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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 2, 2024

As law schools across the nation grapple with the tidal wave of recent anti-DEI laws, the foundation of inclusion and equity in legal education is being profoundly challenged, forcing law schools to rethink their approaches to fostering a wide net of representation. Despite these concerns, there is a silver lining.

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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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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.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 14, 2023

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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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 2, 2024

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. Law Schools, 1980-2021.” Despite these challenges, the national law student population has shown some progress in diversification. However, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The American Indian College Fund has announced its third American Indian Law School Scholarship for a student entering Harvard Law School in the fall of 2024. Samantha Maltais Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer The goal is to eliminate financial hurdles to earning a juris doctor degree at Harvard Law School.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

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. The mission of the law school is to educate lawyer leaders for their communities, our state and nation,” said William Hubbard, dean of the Joseph F.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 2, 2024

Tracking law school deans across the U.S., The resource was created in 2007 by Jim Rosenblatt, JD, professor of law and dean emeritus at the Mississippi College School of Law. It’s rare for a law school dean to stay in their role for 10 years or more, Rosenblatt says.

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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

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 also chaired the planning committee for the AALS Workshop for New Law School Teachers in 2010.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2024

Tess Feldman Southwestern Law School is collaborating with the Los Angeles LGBT Center in launching the Asylum Law Clinic to better equip future lawyers in providing legal support to asylum seekers in the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Golden Gate University will cease offering a juris doctor program, though its law school will not shut down altogether and will continue offering non-J.D. degrees, Reuters reported last week.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Free Speech Requirement for Law Schools Moves Forward kathryn.palmer… Tue, 11/21/2023 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 3, 2024

Citing the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down affirmative action, a conservative group filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally discriminating against white men in faculty hiring.

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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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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. million of federal funding to 92 students between July 2017 and June 2022 that it was not allowed to give.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

A new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability finds that the top 20 law schools in the U.S. law school. fossil fuel lawyers attended a top-20 law school. The Texas law school produces 12.9 percent more fossil fuel lawyers than the average law school.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

A new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability finds that the top 20 law schools in the U.S. law school. fossil fuel lawyers attended a top-20 law school. The Texas law school produces 12.9 percent more fossil fuel lawyers than the average law school.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Northeastern University’s law school recently admitted thousands of applicants by mistake, NBC News reported. The admission emails were sent to 205 current law school applicants because of a “technical error.” The erroneous email was also sent to nearly 4,000 applicants who applied a year ago.

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Higher Ed Dive

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Maintaining two separately accredited schools is not the best use of resources in a competitive landscape, according to the university's president.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2023

Department of Education has settled with five free-standing law schools after an investigation showed that those institutions “improperly disbursed” federal financial aid to students enrolled in unaccredited master of laws programs.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 2, 2024

The post Reviving Support for Black Law School Students appeared first on Insight Into Diversity. . “It’s important to start early in order to make people understand that it’s possible and that they would be supported here,” D’Almeida said.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Campbell University revolts against the list for similar reasons as others. But its lower ranking means it could have more to lose.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The law school of Yale University has been known—and this is rare in law schools—for giving out all aid based on need. A Yale press release said, “The scholarship expansion comes several months after Yale Law School announced that it would no longer participate in the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The law school of the University of California, Los Angeles, announced Tuesday that it is dropping out of the U.S. And on Wednesday, the law school of the University of California, Irvine, joined the movement. Approximately 80 percent of a law school’s U.S. News & World Report rankings.

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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. News’ Rankings of Medical, Law Schools Trending: Trending text: More Quit 'U.S. Disable left side advertisement?:

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