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In Defense of Tirien Steinbach

Academe Blog

WILSON Last week, Stanford Law School announced that it had suspended Tirien Steinbach, associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion, in the wake of the outrage over the disruption by protesters of a Federalist Society speech by Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan. Stanford must end this suspension immediately.

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Harvard and Yale law schools ditch U.S. News & World Report’s rankings: “Profoundly flawed”

University Business

Officials at Yale’s and Harvard’s law schools said Wednesday the institutions will no longer participate in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of the top law schools. An official at Yale Law School called the methodology behind the influential listing “profoundly flawed.”

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Most universities are charities: so what?

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Mary Synge , academic author and charity law specialist. The University-Charity is not purely a law book, however. Get our updates via email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. For many academics, that is a step too far.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

After the nearby College of New Rochelle closed in 2019 amid financial woes, Manhattanville hired its dean of nursing and launched its own School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Manhattanville remains a private liberal arts institution, but it has changed its orientation somewhat in recent years.

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Pedagogy and the N-Word

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Just Visiting When I read the op-ed by Claremont McKenna Professor Christopher Nadon in the Wall Street Journal discussing what he believes are sanctions he’s received for using the full utterance of the N-word in a class when illustrating a point about censorship and Huck Finn , I thought two things.

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6 elements of an effective graduate enrollment management plan—and why you need to build one

EAB

On a few recent campus visits, graduate school deans shared that they are tasked with growing enrollment by as much as 30 or 35 percent. But not all the schools I speak with have a clear strategy for how to achieve these lofty grad growth goals. October 17, 2022. October 12, 2022. Considering launching a data analytics program?

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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.