article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Student Law Society Offers Legal Support to LGBTQ+ Community

Insight Into Diversity

Established in 2009, the organization is composed of about 50 students, faculty, and staff members at the university’s William H. Bowen School of Law. I think it’s important to have OutLaw, just in the law school space, period,” says Arey.

university leaders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Acting in the Best Interest of the Institution

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Learning Leadership by Example In describing his leadership style, President Welch recalled a few pivotal moments early in his academic career: “I was going to go to law school to be a politician. I had been president of the student body in high school, and then I became president of the student body at the University of Arkansas.

article thumbnail

AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

Author, Understanding Academic Freedom (2021); The Future of Academic Freedom (2019); Censorship and Selection: Issues and Answers for Schools (1988, 1993, 2001); Railwaymen and Revolution: Russia, 1905 (1987). Editor (2009-15) and Associate Editor(1982-2009), American Library Association Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom.

article thumbnail

Remembering Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. (1952-2023)

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Professor Ogletree was a once-in-a-century kind of law professor,” said Amos Jones, a Washington, D.C.-based based attorney who served as Ogletree’s research assistant during his time as a student at Harvard Law School. “He was wrongfully arrested at his own house in 2009, the first thing that he said was “Get Tree!”

article thumbnail

Showing the Human Face of Higher Ed Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

While in law school, he was a founding member of the Journal of Gender Law & Policy and served as the Vice President of the Duke Bar Association. A Sloan Foundation Graduate Fellowship funded his studies at both Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and Duke University. President Sorrell B.A.

article thumbnail

Higher Education’s Silence on Sonya Massey's Death is Deafening

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bland was followed and pulled over on University Drive in Prairie View, Texas — a road that travels in and from Prairie View A&M University, where she graduated in 2009.