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Study Investigates Racial Minority Student Law School Experiences

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Having meaningful relationships with law school faculty and staff is essential for underrepresented racial minority (URMs) students as they decide on law school options, adjust to academic environments, and negotiate in-school experiences, a recent study found. law schools. law schools.

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College Fund Offers American Indian Law School Scholarship to Attend Harvard Law

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Indian College Fund has announced its third American Indian Law School Scholarship for a student entering Harvard Law School in the fall of 2024. Samantha Maltais Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer The goal is to eliminate financial hurdles to earning a juris doctor degree at Harvard Law School.

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Struggling law school seeks to reinvent itself

Inside Higher Ed

South Royalton’s main claim to fame, however, is that it is home to the Green Mountain State’s only law school. Vermont Law School has doled out juris doctor degrees to students from across New England and beyond since 1972. Vermont Law School is no different. Interest in J.D.

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Announcing the 2023 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine is pleased to announce the 109 institutions of higher education selected as recipients of the 2023 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award — including those in the community college and law school categories — and the 62 winners of the 2023 Health Professions HEED Award.

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Law Schools Navigate the Shifting Inclusion Landscape

Insight Into Diversity

As law schools across the nation grapple with the tidal wave of recent anti-DEI laws, the foundation of inclusion and equity in legal education is being profoundly challenged, forcing law schools to rethink their approaches to fostering a wide net of representation. Kerii Landry-Thomas, JD The U.S.

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Adult learners: 4 important ways to better support them

University Business

When higher education leaders ask me how they can more effectively integrate and support the growing number of adults enrolling in their institutions, I suggest they go back to school to gain a deeper understanding of adult learners’ challenges and needs. This shift has left many traditional schools flat-footed.

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Mount Holyoke Taps Howard University Law Dean to Lead College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I think its values, what it represents, is the best of higher education.” Under her leadership, the law school increased its national profile, created new programming and pulled in more funding and resources. Danielle Ren Holley, current dean and professor of law at Howard University.

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