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An Outsider’s View, Self-Worth

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2018, Chua and her husband, fellow Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld, were investigated for allegedly telling students to dress like models for a better chance at winning a clerkship with Brett Kavanaugh, now a U.S. It wasn’t just because her interests focused on a lesser-studied subset of law focusing on developing countries.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

Throughout 2022, Ball State University has made significant progress on its five-year Inclusive Excellence Plan, which aims to advance broad DEI goals across the university, including campus culture, policies and infrastructure, and recruitment and retention. Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York.

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Harvard Eliminates Diversity Statements in Hiring

Insight Into Diversity

In an April op-ed in The Harvard Crimson, Harvard Law School professor Randall L. Kennedy, JD, criticized the mandatory statements, arguing they were counterproductive to addressing social discrimination in academia and posed a challenge to academic freedom. Not all faculty members are supportive of this change.

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Should professors still record lectures? Maybe. Maybe not

Inside Higher Ed

Many students still participated in the live class, and they shared thoughts about the policy in conversation and end-of-semester course evaluations. Amid this debate, learning and classroom policies are morphing in real time. “Nobody at my law school is wearing masks and covid remains extant. Louis, said.

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Universities on Fire

HESA

The second half of this interview in particular provides some really interesting insight into issues of what enablers are required for academia to really turn the corner on CO 2 emissions. Think about Lewis and Clark College, out in the west coast of the US for example or the Vermont Law School, in Vermont, which is explicitly very green.

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Defending Central European University and Academic Freedom: Elements of an Initial Response

GlobalHigherEd

Editor’s note : this guest entry, also posted on Inside Higher Ed , has been kindly developed by Sejal Parmar , Assistant Professor at the Department of Legal Studies and a core faculty member of the Center for Media, Data and Society at the School of Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest.

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From the Classroom to the Streets

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Growing up in Los Angeles, the daughter of West African immigrants, Bernadette Atuahene knew from an early age that she was destined for a career in law. What she didnt realize right away was that she could fuse her passion for social justice and advocacy with the world of academia. This isnt just about numbers and policies, she says.

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