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The Law School Hiring Market Undervalues Women, Minorities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The latest attack on efforts to support diversity comes in the form of a lawsuit targeting Northwestern University’s law school. The suit accuses the school’s faculty and administration of snubbing high-profile white male applicants. Several years ago, I led the premiere tax law graduate program at NYU.

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Mount Holyoke Taps Howard University Law Dean to Lead College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. Under her leadership, the law school increased its national profile, created new programming and pulled in more funding and resources.

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Using the Law to Help Shape Public Policy - Jamelia N. Morgan

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Tenured: Yes Age: 38 Education: B.A., Yale Law School Career mentors: Amna Akbar, The Ohio State University; Guy-Uriel Charles, Harvard Law School; and Devon Carbado, UCLA. political science, Stanford University; M.A.,

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Most universities are charities: so what?

HEPI

From criticism of the way universities are run, and academics ‘managed’, to criticism of how our world-leading universities have ‘lost their way’ in the face of increasing government intervention, charity law offers both a fresh perspective and a robust legal framework. The University-Charity is not purely a law book, however.

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President moves: hearty welcomes and rocky goodbyes

University Business

Nicklow’s extensive STEM research background is a sensible fit for the school on the “Space Coast.” ” He has published more than 75 articles and four books, which have focused on the advancement of STEM education and the optimization of environmental and water resources. Located in Melbourne, Fla.,

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

IUPUI continued the White Racial Literacy Project with the Chancellor’s Leadership Reading Program, which is inclusive of all vice chancellors and deans, in a yearlong reading of “Presumed Incompetent: Race, Class, Power and Resistance of Women in Academia” as well as an auditorium-packed lecture featuring Ibram X.

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Pedagogy and the N-Word

Inside Higher Ed

He believes that lawyers who get “distracted or depressed” [3] when hearing the full use of the word are lacking the “self-mastery” to be good lawyers, and it is imperative that law schools prepare them this way. I find this attitude both paternalistic and narrow.