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Testy Appointed to Lead the Association of American Law Schools

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Belmont plans to hire Jewish faculty for the first time

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Belmont University, a private Christian institution in Nashville, Tenn., University leaders recently announced they’re specifically recruiting Jewish faculty members to teach in three of its graduate programs, hopefully as early as this spring. It’s one of the things that makes Belmont great.

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The State of Law School Diversity in the Wake of Affirmative Action Bans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Krinsky, executive vice president for operations and chief of staff at The Law School Admission Council (LSAC). While diversity in law schools continues to grow, it has failed to keep pace with demographic representation within the U.S. Over the last three years, Black law school applicants have made up roughly 7.8%

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Protecting Tribal Sovereignty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Carpenter, Council Tree Professor of Law, and director of the American Indian Law Program at the University of Colorado Law School. Stone Professor of Law and director of the University of Washington School of Law's Native American Law Center. Monte Mills is the Charles I.

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Higher Education Inquirer - Untitled Article

Higher Education Inquirer

If you report on US colleges and universities, get to know these 19 higher education databases by Denise-Marie Ordway, The Journalist's Resource No matter what issue youre covering on the higher education beat, your story will be stronger if you ground it in high-quality data. colleges and universities.

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Battling anti-CRT legislation in the Upper Midwest (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

” This is but one example of the wave of anti-CRT legislation that Ellen Schrecker, a professor emeritus of history at Yeshiva University, has called “the new McCarthyism.” As a faculty member at North Dakota State University, I have been interviewed about the law’s implications for academic freedom.

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The Best Shot for the Supreme Court to Save Loan Forgiveness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But a recent amicus curiae brief filed by two conservative law professors might offer Republican-appointed justices a reason to issue a surprise decision. They show that these sorts of suits have skyrocketed since 2007. Like many conservatives, the brief’s authors, Samuel L. Bray, the John N. It’s about judicial restraint.”