Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School (AJMLS) and Morris Brown College are partnering for a law school pipeline. “We We are ecstatic to partner with Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School,” said Morris Brown President Dr. Kevin James. Gatewood, Dean and CEO of AJMLS.

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MAY 31, 2024

Tess Feldman Southwestern Law School is collaborating with the Los Angeles LGBT Center in launching the Asylum Law Clinic to better equip future lawyers in providing legal support to asylum seekers in the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

David Beasley Beasley receives the full-time appointment, effective March 1, as Distinguished Professor of Practice and Public Service in the law school’s Department of Legal Studies. The mission of the law school is to educate lawyer leaders for their communities, our state and nation,” said William Hubbard, dean of the Joseph F.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

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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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The law school class of 2023, admitted before the U.S. The Law School Admission Council’s (LSAC) analysis of ABA data reveals that 40% of the current law school class are students of color, up from 39% in 2022, marking a third year of record diversity. of the first-year class. “This summer’s U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

Johanna Bond will become dean of Rutgers Law School, effective Jul. Johanna Bond Bond is currently the tenured Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and an affiliate faculty member in the university’s Africana Studies and the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Williams from its law school, Williams’s descendants were irate. Richmond president Kevin Hallock broke the news to Robert Smith, Williams’s great-great-grandson and a graduate of the law school, over the phone. Williams enrolled at what was then called Richmond College in 1848. He acknowledged that a $3.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 25, 2023

Department of Education (ED) has announced settlements with five freestanding law schools accused of improperly disbursing federal financial aid to students in unaccredited program. million of federal funding to 92 students between July 2017 and June 2022 that it was not allowed to give.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The College of Law at St. Crump College of Law, making the law school the U.S.’s Crump College of Law at St. Thomas University is the latest step in an effort to encourage bridge-building among the legal profession, law enforcement, and our communities," said David A. Benjamin L. The only other U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2024

I wrote a dissertation on a topic so untrammeled, Catholic women’s higher education, that there were no books from which to plagiarize. Seize the opportunity.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

There are many ways to design a course in higher education, but why do it alone? As the educational landscape continues to evolve, the role of an instructional designer (ID) has become necessary. Fuchsberg Law Center and teaches instructional design at Touros Graduate School of Technology. References Binder, M.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The Graduate Record Examination is now accepted at 100 law schools , more than half of the 199 American law schools accredited by the American Bar Association. The Educational Testing Service first promoted the GRE for use in law school admissions in 2016, when the University of Arizona did so.

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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.

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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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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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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Rehan Staton became a viral media sensation on his admission, and film-maker Tyler Perry covered his tuition fees The man who worked as a trash hauler in Maryland before earning international news headlines by gaining admission into the prestigious Harvard Law School has graduated.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

Ryan, The Boston Globe, Getty Images Harvard Medical School. Like the law-school leaders before him, the Harvard dean George Q. By Francie Diep. Daley said rankings create perverse incentives.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 2, 2024

Tracking law school deans across the U.S., Rosenblatt’s Dean Database offers a rich repository of real-time information for the higher education sector. The resource was created in 2007 by Jim Rosenblatt, JD, professor of law and dean emeritus at the Mississippi College School of Law.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2024

Edley spent more than two decades as a professor at Harvard Law School, where he and Orfield founded the Civil Rights Project in the aftermath of a 1996 court ruling that squelched race-conscious admission policies at many universities. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against the UT practices. Orrick, Jr.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Professional schools should allow students to make money while earning credit, Neha Lall writes. Few institutions are slower to change than the legal profession and higher education. And they have the American Bar Association to thank for it.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

higher education ever since. Oppenheimer spoke with Inside Higher Ed by phone. Also, schools like Princeton and Dartmouth did not have as many professional schools. Excerpts of the conversation follow, edited for length and clarity.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

2 emerging law school recruitment challenges – and how to address them. In the last 20 years, law school enrollment has been anything but consistent. In just a five-year period, from 2010 to 2015, the number of first-year law students decreased by more than 29%. For the 2022 cycle, law school applications are down.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2023

News' rankings methods have encouraged the neglect of low-income students. By Tamara F. Lawson and Heather K. Gerken Illustration by The Chronicle U.S. News rankings methods have encouraged the neglect of low-income students.

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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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The Chronicle of Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The dean said the magazine’s formula discourages schools from admitting low-income students and supporting students interested in public service. By Francie Diep.

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University Business

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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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The Chronicle of Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

By Francie Diep. Yale’s dean argued that the ranking's formula discourages institutions from admitting low-income students and supporting careers in public service.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Bakke case of 1978, the Supreme Court has been asked on several occasions to rule on the constitutionality of using race as one factor in higher education admissions. If there are few Blacks, Hispanics or Native Americans admitted to these law schools, their chances of being nominated to serve on the High Court will be slim.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 4, 2024

A graduate of Lafayette College, he holds an MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business. After decades of positively impactful work in higher education and economic and community development, this appointment is also a win for the city of Philadelphia as John now brings his experience and a fresh vision to Temple University.”

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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. She is a scholar who specializes in health law.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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. Okediji has been appointed the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

Moving the university forward through challenges and opportunities in present-day higher education requires a leadership with specific credentials, said James Benham, vice chair of Texas Southern’s Board of Regents and chair of the presidential search committee. “If

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

By Francie Diep Illustration by The Chronicle Top-ranked institutions can afford to take risks that others can’t.

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