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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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and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schools’ histories. She has published articles in Harvard Law Review and Cornell Law Review, among others. in health policy in 1994 from Brandeis University. Mount Union (Ohio), St. Norbert College (Wis.)

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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. It wasn’t just because her interests focused on a lesser-studied subset of law focusing on developing countries.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

On Monday, the American Bar Association (ABA) rejected a proposal to eliminate standardized test requirements at law schools. Under the proposed change, law schools would have been permitted to implement test-optional policies in 2025. The ABA rejected a similar proposal on standardized testing in 2018.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2023

and Grace Stokes professor at New York University Law School. They broadly agreed that the plaintiffs who are suing Harvard and the University of North Carolina, claiming that their affirmative action policies discriminate against Asian Americans, do not represent the views of that group as a whole. You can bet money on it.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Some scholars, in and outside the institution, believe the change moves the university too far from its Christian roots, while others say the policy isn’t inclusive enough, embracing one faith community to the exclusion of others. It also can lead to a lack of consensus on things like this.”

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Throughout 2022, Ball State University has made significant progress on its five-year Inclusive Excellence Plan, which aims to advance broad DEI goals across the university, including campus culture, policies and infrastructure, and recruitment and retention. DEI Plan Asserts Commitment to Inclusive Campus — Lehigh University.

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MAY 11, 2023

Sorrell is the longest-serving President in the 151-year history of Paul Quinn College. in Public Policy from Duke University, and his Ed.D. While in law school, he was a founding member of the Journal of Gender Law & Policy and served as the Vice President of the Duke Bar Association. President Sorrell B.A.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

To be sure, as Robert Kelchen, an expert on higher ed finance and head of the University of Tennessee’s Education Leadership and Policy Studies department, notes : “undergraduate education is only a part of what” even public flagships do. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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I saw the policy changes that financial aid leveraging can do to help students and institution. I mean, nothing like this has happened before, at least in sort of data tracking history. I came across a little data point the other day saying law school applications and admissions where way up year over year.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

“This incident is particularly harmful to our Black community members during this important celebration of Black History Month.” “And that’s what we do with all situations—we address them using our values and our policies and deal with each situation with its own sets of facts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As attorney general, he secured the largest opiate settlement payment in state history and hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements from corporations for preying on New Mexicans. from the University of New Mexico Law School. .

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JANUARY 4, 2023

I find it remarkable that leading law schools decided to attack the ranking system by denying U.S. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. The key levers, in my view, must come from outside individual campuses, since that may well be the only way to overcome institutional gridlock.

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So I’m thinking of examples of catastrophic cases like Pakistani campuses being underwater for most of last fall, or to go back in history, like what happened to Tulane after Hurricane Katrina. One of the ways that you talk about the climate crisis is the way that crises may affect institutional operations directly.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Some law schools admit less qualified students on a part-time or probationary status to exclude them from the rankings that look exclusively at full-time students. How to decide what policy decisions or prescriptions should be drawn from science or data. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2025

The new center builds upon Howard Law School's historical significance in 14th Amendment jurisprudence. Under the leadership of Charles Hamilton Houston, who served as dean from 1929 to 1935, the law school helped develop the strategic litigation plan that would eventually end legal segregation in the United States.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

a prominent legal and public policy scholar who co-founded the Harvard Civil Rights Project with Dr. Gary Orfield, died in May He was 71. The case stemmed from a reverse affirmative action lawsuit filed by white student Cheryl Hopwood, who was denied admission to the University of Texas law school. Christopher Edley Jr.,

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Editor’s note : this guest entry, also posted on Inside Higher Ed , has been kindly developed by Sejal Parmar , Assistant Professor at the Department of Legal Studies and a core faculty member of the Center for Media, Data and Society at the School of Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest.

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Judge Brown responded by saying, “she didn’t,” and continued to say that “Critical Race Theory is an academic theory studied at the law school level that examines how race interacts with various institutions.” She further explained, “Critical Race Theory examines policies to ensure discrimination was not embedded.”

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In 2014, lower courts ruled in the schools’ favor, finding that their policies complied with Supreme Court precedents. It might also create headaches for a larger range of colleges and universities beyond the relatively small number that currently make use of explicitly race-conscious admissions policies. Harvard Law School.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

A wave of threats continued throughout February, Black History Month, causing particular alarm among students, faculty and staff. ’” Warmack, of Claflin University, took issue with a multipage assessment that asked about campuses’ security systems and safety policies. We’re happy with the information-sharing.”

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MARCH 7, 2024

Learning Leadership by Example In describing his leadership style, President Welch recalled a few pivotal moments early in his academic career: “I was going to go to law school to be a politician. I had been president of the student body in high school, and then I became president of the student body at the University of Arkansas.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2025

She stepped into that position after serving as a judicial clerk for the Constitutional Court of South Africa and later as an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamiltona prestigious law firm in New York. This isnt just about numbers and policies, she says. This is about people. And Black people get the blame, says Atuahene.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

This is driving the way people vote, it’s driving what school boards do, it’s driving what governors do. If we do not interrupt it, then our efforts to impact issues like economic policy and education policy will be academic exercises.” History teaches us, if you beat on the door long enough, eventually the door gives way.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Image: Stanford University’s president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, and the dean of its law school, Jenny Martinez, issued a joint apology Saturday to a federal appeals court judge whose speech Thursday was repeatedly heckled by students in the audience. Duncan was a target because he has a history of anti-LGBT activism.

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JUNE 1, 2023

More from UB : These schools are working smarter, not harder, to boost international student enrollment Dean Jenny Martinez – Stanford Law School In March, students stormed a conservative campus event that Trump-appointed U.S. “History teaches us that this is a temptation to be avoided.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

Jackson native and NAACP President Derrick Johnson, a Yale Law School graduate, condemned the Supreme Court’s decision while singling out Justice Thomas. We will remind children they possess the brilliance to be admitted into any institution while advocating against unfair legacy and standardized test-based admissions policies.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Exploring the Heritage of American Higher Education: The Evolution of Philosophy and Policy. 2017) For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America Cornell University Press. Women and Higher Education in American History. Fast and Curious: A History of Shortcuts in American Education. Bousquet, M.

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law schools have become a critical yet overlooked institution in perpetuating these disparities. From shaping the legal minds that go on to influence policy to training future attorneys who occupy the nation's corridors of power, law schools are playing an outsized role in entrenching systems of privilege, rather than dismantling them.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

” This is but one example of the wave of anti-CRT legislation that Ellen Schrecker, a professor emeritus of history at Yeshiva University, has called “the new McCarthyism.” Senator Erin Oban, a Democrat, spoke against the bill , calling it “not serious policy” and also asserting, “It’s a red herring.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

” This report marks a critical juncture in the AAUP’s history, being one of only eight special reports issued, and underscores a growing concern over political interference in the realm of academic governance. Professor of History, CSU East Bay1989-2010, Prof. Emeritus, 2015-present. [00:00:28]

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history, having “been sued a whopping 134 times in federal court since his inauguration, which is nearly three times the number of lawsuits our three previous presidents have faced in the early months of their administration combined. “The Yale dean on free speech at Yale Law School. “ Sincerely, Heather K.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

History will say we pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps,” says Dr. Kevin James, Morris Brown’s president. History-maker Dr. Ruth J. Manning, the Morgan and Helen Chu dean and professor of law at Harvard Law School, told Harvard Law Bulletin. Notable Appointments In April, Dr. Helene D. She was 67.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

What is truly morally reprehensible is Trainors gaslighting of the history of educational racism in the United States. Erasing Black History is shameful. Trainor writes as if generations of segregated and under-funded schools were fiction, as if Thurgood Marshall, Brown v. History is watching us right now.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.” According to administration officials, the policy gives the Secretary of Education the ability to “waive or modify” federal student aid provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) in the case of a national emergency such as the pandemic. SB17, signed by Texas Gov.

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APRIL 1, 2025

They’ll come next for those who teach the history of slavery or who provide gender-affirming health care or who research climate change or who counsel students about their reproductive choices, he added.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2023

There is a long history of university leaders not being neutral,” noted Tomasi. “In Try to keep things as focused on your own campus as possible and as much closely tied to your own policy as possible,” said Whittington. “If This would include something specifically related to the campus or the institution’s core mission.

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