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Law School's Enrollment Crisis? Looking Past the Headlines

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Enrollment data for the first law school class since the Supreme Court struck down the affirmative action in college admissions was released last December, and Dr. Sari Kisilevsky there was much concern about sharp declines in admission of Black and Hispanic students to elite law schools. This puts law schools in a bind.

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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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Indispensable Instructional Designers at Professional Schools 

Faculty Focus

Most importantly, adults need consistency, organization, transparency, and a community (Sockalingam, 2012 & Binder, 2023). Fuchsberg Law Center and teaches instructional design at Touros Graduate School of Technology. & Kumar, S. Instructional Designers in Higher Education: Roles, Challenges, and Supports. 11(1), 7-24.

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Struggling law school seeks to reinvent itself

Inside Higher Ed

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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Patricia Timmons-Goodson Appointed Dean of North Carolina Central University School of Law

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She retired from the Supreme Court in 2012. from Duke University Law School. Patricia Timmons-Goodson Timmons-Goodson is a retired North Carolina Supreme Court associate justice, the fourth woman and the first African American woman in the role. Jackson, Jr., NCCU provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs.

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Indispensable Instructional Designers at Professional Schools 

Faculty Focus

Most importantly, adults need consistency, organization, transparency, and a community (Sockalingam, 2012 & Binder, 2023). Fuchsberg Law Center and teaches instructional design at Touros Graduate School of Technology. & Kumar, S. Instructional Designers in Higher Education: Roles, Challenges, and Supports. 11(1), 7-24.

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Most universities are charities: so what?

HEPI

Indeed, from a charity law perspective, one might have expected a far greater level of public, or even judicial, involvement than appears to have been the case. The University-Charity is not purely a law book, however. It offers a new perspective for university governors, leaders and academics alike.