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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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. Gatewood, Dean and CEO of AJMLS.

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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

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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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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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. It also greatly expands students’ options for online classes.

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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.

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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

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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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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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. On Thursday, it announced an expansion of a full-tuition scholarship to students from families who earn up to up to 200 percent of the federal poverty line.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2023

Federal Student Aid discovered five law schools that improperly disbursed $2.9 million of ineligible federal financial aid funds to 92 students between 2017 and 2022. programs, and FSA found these five law schools disbursing Title IV funds for their LL.M However, the ABA only accredits Juris Doctor (J.D.)

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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. UCLA Law does all of these things, but honoring our core values comes at a cost in rankings points.”

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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. ” Ad keywords: admissions Is this diversity newsletter?

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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.

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University Business

JANUARY 4, 2023

After some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions dropped out of its best law schools rankings, U.S. News & World Report’s best law schools. Yale University, which regularly lands at the top of the list, kicked off the exodus when law school Dean Heather K. . Best law schools overhaul.

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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. They said, “Our overriding concern is to help address and reduce inequities in medical school education.”

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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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University Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

News & World Report’s rankings of the best law schools. The movement was initiated by Yale University last Wednesday when the school’s dean announced that the institution will no longer submit its data for review. News will therefore continue to rank the nearly 200 accredited law schools in the United States.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

News & World Report announced Monday that it would change its law school rankings, in which many top law schools have announced they will no longer participate. ” In addition, “Some law schools that are able to offer fellowships felt they were being undervalued, thus discouraging public service careers.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The law schools of the University of Chicago and Cornell University may not love the U.S. Miles wrote to students that “my past practice has been to avoid direct, public comment on the U.S. ” Cornell’s law school also announced that it will still participate in the rankings of U.S. News ranking.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A long and lawyerly debate is underway at the American Bar Association over a question that could have lasting consequences for diversity in legal education: Should taking the LSAT be mandatory for people applying to law school? The post Do Law Schools Need the LSAT? Read more on The New York Times.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

2 emerging law school recruitment challenges – and how to address them. In the last 20 years, law school enrollment has been anything but consistent. In just a five-year period, from 2010 to 2015, the number of first-year law students decreased by more than 29%.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2023

News' rankings methods have encouraged the neglect of low-income students. News rankings methods have encouraged the neglect of low-income students. By Tamara F. Lawson and Heather K. Gerken Illustration by The Chronicle U.S.

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Higher Ed Dive

JULY 17, 2023

Institutions must adapt their curricula to incorporate artificial intelligence-related topics, the dean of William & Mary Law School argues.

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Academe Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

BY JENNIFER RUTH Inside Higher Ed covers a story today that blew up over the weekend. That is, it “blew up” in a particular way in particular outlets. I found out about it quickly only because I look at the twitter accounts of those on the right who believe that institutions of higher ed are…

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University Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Officials at Yale’s and Harvard’s law schools said Wednesday the institutions will no longer participate in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of the top law schools. An official at Yale Law School called the methodology behind the influential listing “profoundly flawed.”

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University Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

More than half of the 14 top-ranked law schools in the United States have said over the past six days that they will no longer participate in U.S. But that is just one of several changes set to reshape law school admissions in the coming years, in what legal educators are calling an unprecedented moment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2024

Edley spent more than two decades as a professor at Harvard Law School, where he and Orfield founded the Civil Rights Project in the aftermath of a 1996 court ruling that squelched race-conscious admission policies at many universities. schools." Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against the UT practices.

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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. Our students work incredibly hard for our clients,” he says. The client, a U.S.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The dean said the magazine’s formula discourages schools from admitting low-income students and supporting students interested in public service. By Francie Diep.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

School: University of Mississippi Year: Senior Major: Legal Studies Outdoor track & field season brought University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) sprinter Olivia Womack to the realization that every moment counts. Female Sports Scholar is bound for law school in the fall. The 2024 Arthur Ashe Jr. She’s a great leader.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2024

The percentage of recent law school graduates employed in full-time, long-term Bar Passage Required or J.D. For the class of 2023, the aggregated school data shows that 30,160 graduates, or 85.6% of the 2023 graduates of the 195 ABA-approved law schools, were employed in full-time, long-term Bar Passage Required or J.D.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Yale’s dean argued that the ranking's formula discourages institutions from admitting low-income students and supporting careers in public service. By Francie Diep.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Vermont Law and Graduate School is embroiled in a fight about a pair of murals in the student center that depict slavery, The New York Times reported. Students complained for years that the colorful panels were full of racist caricatures.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In recent agency research, a young first-generation Hispanic college student shared that she was initially not going to attend college because she did not know what to study. The challenge was that none of these paths aligned with this young Hispanic student’s interests or strengths—she did not like math.

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