Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Olivas Award, a national award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) that recognizes leadership and mentorship in diversity and mentoring in the legal academy. Johnson Johnson is law school dean, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law, and professor of Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

Alexander has always been interested in the realms of law, politics, and democracy. He said it was one of the reasons he went to law school. So much of my career I did my scholarship in the field of election law,” said Alexander, the Arthur J. Kania Dean and Professor of Law at Villanova University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Born in 1942, he was an aspirational child who had his life planned out long before high school. He would go into the Air Force, followed by college, law school and then run for political office. He never made it to the Air Force or law school, but he made his political dreams come true. The rest is history.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Female Law Faculty, Students Across the Country Are Getting Unsettling Texts Ryan Quinn Tue, 09/17/2024 - 03:00 AM Since the start of the year, women law professors, deans and students have received messages on their personal cellphones saying things like, “Law school isn’t fair for us men.” Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 2, 2024

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. Despite these concerns, there is a silver lining.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Kline has committed $50 million for “transformational support” of Duquesne University’s 111-year-old law school, which will now bear his name, the university announced Wednesday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Born in 1942, he was an aspirational child who had his life planned out long before high school. He would go into the Air Force, followed by college, law school and then run for political office. He never made it to the Air Force or law school, but he made his political dreams come true. The rest is history.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The law schools of the University of Chicago and Cornell University may not love the U.S. The ranking is not our guide, and I prefer to shine a light on the substantive attributes that make our Law School the home of the most intellectually ambitious faculty and the most powerful legal education. News ranking.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

However, first-generation students and graduates of less selective law schools still struggle to break in, according to a new study. The legal professoriate is becoming more racially, ethnically and gender diverse, but new data shows that first-generation college graduates remain underrepresented among law faculty ranks.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

More medical and law schools have announced that they are leaving the U.S. The medical schools of Cornell University and the University of Chicago are the latest to join the movement. They said, “Our overriding concern is to help address and reduce inequities in medical school education.” Hide by line?:

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

ID Benefits While traditionally associated with K-12, higher ed, and the corporate world, IDs can bring transformative benefits to professional schools (programs offering terminal degrees for a specific profession) and support faculty in their endeavors to innovate and engage students. The word selective is important.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

News" is devaluing faculty expertise at the worst possible time. News is devaluing faculty expertise at the worst possible time. By Brian Soucek Derek Brahney for The Chronicle U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

Jessica Berg has been appointed dean of the University of California Davis School of Law. Berg, who served as co-dean of the School of Law at Case Western Reserve University, will start in her new role Sept. She was a visiting professor at Michigan State University Medical School.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. ” That is, undergraduate programs with fewer than 12 students per full-time faculty member over a period of five years are no longer accepting new students.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 2, 2024

Tracking law school deans across the U.S., The resource was created in 2007 by Jim Rosenblatt, JD, professor of law and dean emeritus at the Mississippi College School of Law. It’s rare for a law school dean to stay in their role for 10 years or more, Rosenblatt says.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Image: North Dakota’s House majority leader has introduced legislation that would let presidents of at least two colleges, Dickinson State University and Bismarck State College, fire tenured faculty members based on those presidents’ own, unappealable reviews. ” Those are issues taxpayers and students may be interested in.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Patricia Timmons-Goodson will become dean of the North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Law , effective Jul. from Duke University Law School. She retired from the Supreme Court in 2012. She is currently a member of the American Bar Association (ABA) and co-chair of the board of the NC Justice Center. “I’m

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

As a scholar engaged in legal research, the law library of New York University School of Law, ranked in the top ten of law schools, affords one bountiful offerings of legal research tools such as HeinOnline, Lexis Plus, VitalLaw, Law Journal Library and Proquest that are not available at primarily undergraduate institutions such as my own.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Kara Ingelhart has been named director of the new LGBTQI+ Rights Clinic, part of the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Bluhm Legal Clinic. Our law school is committed to contributing to efforts to uphold LGBTQI+ rights locally, regionally and nationally in collaboration with stakeholders and advocates,” said Osofsky.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Davidson has been appointed president and dean of Southern Illinois University’s Mitchell Hamline School of Law, effective July 1. Davidson serves as professor of law at the law school and has served as dean at SIU Law since July 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2024

Law schools are increasingly incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into their curricula, according to an AI and Legal Education Survey released by the American Bar Association and the ABA Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence. It suggests that AI has had an increasingly significant impact on legal education.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A group of professors at the University of California, Berkeley, Law School signed a statement protesting a decision by some student groups to adopt a bylaw not to host Zionist speakers. “We hereby endorse the principle of free and open speech at the law school,” the statement reads.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

plans to break a long-standing tradition of only hiring Christian instructors by opening some faculty positions to Jewish candidates. University leaders recently announced they’re specifically recruiting Jewish faculty members to teach in three of its graduate programs, hopefully as early as this spring.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Okediji has been appointed the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Okediji holds a Bachelor of Law degree from University of Jos in Nigeria as well as a master’s and a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

An American Bar Association plan to strengthen job protections for untenured law faculty has been received positively by legal writing and clinical professors. The American Bar Association has proposed changes to standards to strengthen job protections for untenured law faculty. The proffer — offered initially in a Nov.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

Through the Veterans Legal Clinic (VLC), students at the University of Michigan (U-M) Law School provide critical services for local veterans and at the same time gain valuable, real-world experience in the civil court system. We really take on any kind of civil legal case for a veteran, especially one that might go to court.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

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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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

Community service and institution-wide partnerships are key tools being used by two historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), among other schools, to address long-standing inequities in the criminal justice system and legal profession. Per the agreement, the UK J.

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Insight Into Diversity

JUNE 7, 2024

Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences will no longer require diversity and inclusion statements as part of its hiring process. This change was detailed in a Monday email from Nina Zipser, PhD, dean of faculty affairs and planning. In an April op-ed in The Harvard Crimson, Harvard Law School professor Randall L.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The former dean of Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law did not have tenure and thus was not entitled to certain job protections, state officials said in a motion to dismiss her gender bias and retaliation lawsuit. Read more on Reuters.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2023

Nyre’s departure stems from disagreements with some board of regents members over governance problems involving Seton Hall Law School, USA TODAY Network New Jersey reported. Late last year, Seton Hall announced that some trusted, long-time employees of the law school embezzled more than $975,000 over several years.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Several of them are also coming in as either the first woman or the first of their race or ethnicity to lead their school. Other notable mentions: Dr. Stuart Rayfield, Columbus State University Dr. Cheryl McConnell, Saint Joseph’s University, the school’s first female president. She is also a first-generation student.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The act of silencing a speaker is fundamentally contrary to the values of this school as an institution of higher learning; it is contrary to the pedagogical mission of training students for a profession in which they will prevail through the power of analysis and argument.” . Difference between peaceful protest and heckler’s veto.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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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The PIE News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Representatives from 17 universities, such as ESADE Business and Law School, IE University, CEU Universities, Ramon Llull University (La Salle, IQS, Blanquerna), LCI Education, and IED Istituto Europeo di Design, hosted a series of campus tours, one-on-one meetings, and masterclasses for counselors. Get in touch! info@srtfairs.com.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

In 2018, Chua and her husband, fellow Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld, were investigated for allegedly telling students to dress like models for a better chance at winning a clerkship with Brett Kavanaugh, now a U.S. When I first joined the [Yale Law] faculty, I would go to a faculty meeting that would be 90% white males.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

On my father’s side of the family, I’m a third-generation college graduate whose aunt was a law school professor. With support from one great math teacher and several of my high school coaches, I went on to earn three degrees at three separate Hispanic-Serving Institutions.

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