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College Fund Offers American Indian Law School Scholarship to Attend Harvard Law

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Indian College Fund has announced its third American Indian Law School Scholarship for a student entering Harvard Law School in the fall of 2024. Samantha Maltais, an enrolled member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, is the current scholarship recipient.

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Academic Freedom Alliance Opposes Diversity Statements

Inside Higher Ed

“The demand for diversity statements enlists academics into a political movement, erasing the distinction between academic expertise and ideological conformity. It encourages cynicism and dishonesty.”

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

This year, it launched a new center and program to address the acute need for culturally diverse and responsive health professionals: the Health Professions Center and its signature program, the Martin Delany-Pan African Studies Pathway to Medical School Program. . to offer scholarships to DACA students.

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U.S. Law Schools: Perpetuating Inequality and Injustice, Serving the Billionaire Class

Higher Education Inquirer

law schools have become a critical yet overlooked institution in perpetuating these disparities. From shaping the legal minds that go on to influence policy to training future attorneys who occupy the nation's corridors of power, law schools are playing an outsized role in entrenching systems of privilege, rather than dismantling them.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Her scholarship changed our understanding of democracy — of why and how the voices of the historically underrepresented must be heard and what it takes to have a meaningful right to vote,” John F. Manning, the Morgan and Helen Chu dean and professor of law at Harvard Law School, told Harvard Law Bulletin.

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On the offense: A new Trump defamation suit, yet another one threatened, and more! — FAN 352

FIRE

Over at Dan Abrams’ Law & Crime, Adam Klasfeld reported that two of Trump’s lawyers, R. Yale dean on free speech at Yale Law School. “ A Message to Our Alumni on Free Speech at Yale Law School ” (Oct. I’m grateful for your unfailing support and love of the School. Quincy Bird and Jeremy D.