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Berg Appointed UC Davis School of Law Dean

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Berg holds a bachelor’s degree and a juris doctorate from Cornell University as well as an MPH from Case Western Reserve, where she also held roles including associate director for the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy, associate director for the Law-Medicine Center, and health policy track coordinator for the Public Health Department.

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Adapting to criticism and college opt-outs, U.S. News teases its latest rankings

University Business

Following harsh criticism from the nation’s top medical schools and the Department of Education, U.S. News and World Report is set to release its law and medical school: research rankings next week with an updated methodology and a reliance on public information from schools that now refuse to participate.

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The U.S. News exodus never happened. How did the top ranking service outlast naysayers?

University Business

Yale Law School’s decision to stop participating with the seminal college ranking service in November prompted a wave of other prestigious graduate programs to follow through; at least a dozen medical schools and 40+ law schools quit participating. News found itself in on the back heel.

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Rankings and the line of best fit – the ultimate guide or a blunt instrument?

The PIE News

As the marketisation of higher education continues, marketing departments often turn to rankings to sell courses and programs. Rhode Island School of Design has recently joined a handful of US law schools and medical schools to have withdrawn from consideration for the US News ranking.

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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. . Department of Education to support rural student success.

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Higher Education Inquirer - Untitled Article

Higher Education Inquirer

Department of Education, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and National Science Foundation. Department of Education. Department of Educations Office of Postsecondary Education, to find information on crime at U.S. Department of Education. Department of Education that investigates discrimination complaints.

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Why Worry?

Inside Higher Ed

The Future of English Departments Faced with sharply falling numbers of majors, many English departments are downplaying the traditional canon and pre-1800 (and sometimes pre-1900) literature and instead emphasizing Creative Writing, communication, media studies, global English language literature, and non-Western literature.