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 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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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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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

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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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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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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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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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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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

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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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The law schools of Columbia, Georgetown and Stanford Universities all announced on Friday that they would leave the U.S. The law schools of Harvard and Yale Universities announced Wednesday that they were no longer participating. The law school of the University of California, Berkeley, announced on Thursday.

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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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Higher Ed Dive

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The decisions in part stem rankings' bleeding after others pulled out. Cornell dean asks what leaving lists based on public data will actually accomplish.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The law schools of Harvard and Yale Universities announced Wednesday that they would no longer participate in the rankings of U.S. On Thursday, the law school of the University of California, Berkeley, joined the movement. News & World Report.

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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The American Bar Association will again consider a request from its Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar to make law schools test optional. The ABA House of Delegates rejected such a proposal this month. But the council voted Friday to make the request a second time.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Kline has committed $50 million for “transformational support” of Duquesne University’s 111-year-old law school, which will now bear his name, the university announced Wednesday. Trial lawyer Thomas R.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2023

Federal Student Aid discovered five law schools that improperly disbursed $2.9 Albany Law School, Atlanta’s John Marshall School of Law, Brooklyn Law School, New England Law–Boston, and New York Law School are considered freestanding law schools, meaning they are not part of a broader university system with institutional accreditation.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Williams from its law school, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. Williams School of Law is now called the University of Richmond School of Law. Williams, who attended the institution from 1846 to 1849 when it was Richmond College, was a trustee and a benefactor whose gift helped establish the law school.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The law schools of Duke University and the University of Michigan have withdrawn from participating in U.S. Kerry Abrams, dean of Duke’s law school, said , “We have long had serious concerns that the design and influence of these rankings create incentives that are not aligned with our mission and our values.

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