LSE Higher Education Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Legally Blonde (US, Robert Luketic, 2001) is a fresh, comedic spin on the not so dumb blonde trope, set at Harvard Law School as student Elle (Reese Witherspoon) struggles with prejudice in a ferociously competitive Ivy-League, male dominated environment. Fellow Ozians. Let us be glad. Let us be grateful. HE in Oz is shrinking.

History 112

History Arts And Sciences Model Academia 112

Insight Into Diversity

JUNE 7, 2024

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.

Arts And Sciences 98

Arts And Sciences Academia Law School Inclusivity 98

Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

“I am recording all of my classes to encourage students who do not feel well to stay home,” Ann Bartow, law professor at the University of New Hampshire, wrote in an email. “Nobody at my law school is wearing masks and covid remains extant. ” Professors today are in a period of transition.

Policy 134

Policy Faculty Technology Academia 134

HESA

MAY 4, 2023

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.

University 40

University Academia Higher Education Humanities 40

Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

1 Most historical Black colleges and universities started in the 1860s and served first as elementary then secondary schools providing the newly freed slaves with a normal education. Contrary to this claim, Cheyney State University , an outgrowth of the Aspen Institute which began as a high school in Philadelphia, was established in 1852.

History 59

History Higher Education Education Disadvantaged 59

Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

1 Most historical Black colleges and universities started in the 1860s and served first as elementary then secondary schools providing the newly freed slaves with a normal education. Contrary to this claim, Cheyney State University , an outgrowth of the Aspen Institute which began as a high school in Philadelphia, was established in 1852.

History 52

History Higher Education Education Disadvantaged 52

GlobalHigherEd

APRIL 18, 2017

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.

University 130

University Humanities Law School Higher Education 130

Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Stern School of Business, said that there was nevertheless “more diversity, more ideological and political diversity, in the room today than in probably any other room anywhere in any of America’s top 100 universities this year.

Faculty 126

Faculty Computer Science Administration Organization 126

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

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.

Law School 105

Law School Schooling Humanities Academia 105

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2024

But Harvard Law has issued its numbers and the alarm bells should be going off. percent of the Harvard Law school class, according to data from the American Bar Association, as reported by the New York Times. But that allowed for a right-wing Supreme Court to set the precedent for all schools not just Harvard.

Law School 52

Law School Academia Inclusivity Advocate 52

The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We are reminded that what’s happening in Florida is not just an isolated issue but a warning sign of the potential nationwide impact of political interference in academia. And that got me really interested in issues of intellectual freedom, free speech, and, once I did get back into academia, academic freedom.

Higher Education 78

Higher Education Education Faculty Administration 78

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Enrollment remained down at every level from community colleges to graduate schools, but much of academia showed its persistence and resilience. Stone Professor of Law and director of the University of Washington School of Law’s Native American Law Center. Staley now has a historic seven-year, $22.4

Higher Education 118

Higher Education Community College Deans Degree 118