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. “An

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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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The University of Richmond has removed the name of T. Williams from its law school, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. Williams School of Law is now called the University of Richmond School of Law. He also owned 25 to 40 enslaved people in the mid-1800s, the newspaper reported.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Image: When the University of Richmond’s Board of Trustees voted last fall to remove the name of alumnus and donor T. Williams from its law school, Williams’s descendants were irate. Smith responded with a letter denouncing the decision and accusing the university of hypocrisy and ingratitude.

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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 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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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

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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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. “I

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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

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

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 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. News & World Report rankings.

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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 itself conducts, so U.S.

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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 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

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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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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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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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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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The law schools of the University of Chicago and Cornell University may not love the U.S. University of Chicago dean Thomas J. As our university is dedicated to the free expression of ideas and to questioning viewpoints, our aim is not to suppress opinions. News ranking. Most of the data we supply to U.S.

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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. However, the university has never advertised that distinction.

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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? appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The University of Michigan law school said it is dropping out of the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of colleges and universities , joining others including Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, Stanford and University of California at Berkeley that no longer will participate in the outlet’s rankings process.

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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. News & World Report’s influential rankings, including those at Yale, Harvard and Stanford universities. News exodus appeared first on University Business.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The University of Toronto’s law school will return a $450,000 gift from Amazon amid criticism that the source of the gift wasn’t shared publicly and participants in events supported by the gift weren’t told who funded them, the law school said in a statement Friday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2023

Seton Hall University President Dr. Joseph has resigned from his post, cutting his initial five-year term as president short, Asbury Park Press reported. Nyre’s departure stems from disagreements with some board of regents members over governance problems involving Seton Hall Law School, USA TODAY Network New Jersey reported.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The former dean of Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law did not have tenure and thus was not entitled to certain job protections, state officials said in a motion to dismiss her gender bias and retaliation lawsuit. Read more on Reuters.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Patricia Timmons-Goodson will become dean of the North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Law , effective Jul. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and an L.L.M. from Duke University Law School. She retired from the Supreme Court in 2012. Jackson, Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Villanova University has tentatively agreed to buy the nearby Cabrini University, which will close at the end of the next academic year in June 2024 due to financial issues, The Inquirer reported. It is unclear what Villanova has planned for its fellow Catholic university. A final agreement is pending. Donohue said.

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Academe Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

BY TALIA SCHAFFER, SETH KAHN, RACHEL SAGNER BUURMA, AND CAROLYN BETENSKY Over the past few weeks, a slew of law schools have announced that they will no longer participate in the US News and World Report’s rankings because of the publication’s problematic methodology and the effects of their rankings.

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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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