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A legal blow to Internet Archive, controlled digital lending

Inside Higher Ed

“Libraries are more than the customer service departments for corporate database products,” Brewster Kahle, the founder and director of the Internet Archive, wrote on the organization’s blog after the ruling. “It would be a book burning on an unprecedented scale.” Every day, it lends approximately 70,000 books.

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In Memoriam

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against the UT practices. Orrick, Jr.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

Failing Law Schools. The Great Training Robbery: Education and Jobs." Berman, Elizabeth P. Creating the Market University. Princeton University Press. Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education. Monthly Review Press. and Best, E. Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Using the authority Congress granted to the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding student federal loans. Department of Education (ED). In 2005, the publication broadened its focus, becoming Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. President Joe Biden, left, is flanked by Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education (ED) issued guidance for how schools can navigate admissions and still consider other factors in evaluating applicants, including neighborhood and high school data, life challenges, and experiences of racial discrimination. In response to the decision, the U.S. Those shoes cannot be filled.”