George Mason University’s law school faces $38M in running losses
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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Enrollment at the Antonin Scalia Law School has declined significantly from recent peaks while costs have increased.
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ABA faces DOJ wrath over law school diversity requirements
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MARCH 10, 2025
"Any requirement that law schools demonstrate 'a commitment to diversity' is deeply problematic," said Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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Stanford, Michigan, Duke, Northwestern law schools join wave swearing off U.S. News rankings
Higher Ed Dive
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Nine of the top 15 law schools have now said they won't submit data, even though U.S. News has promised to keep ranking all accredited law schools.
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Law School Admission Council Names Sudha Setty as New President and CEO
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 6, 2025
In a significant leadership transition at one of legal education's key institutions, the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) has appointed Sudha Setty as its new president and chief executive officer, effective July 1, 2025. Law schools and higher education face enormous challenges and opportunities," Setty said.
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Law School's Enrollment Crisis? Looking Past the Headlines
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
Enrollment data for the first law school class since the Supreme Court struck down the affirmative action in college admissions was released last December, and Dr. Sari Kisilevsky there was much concern about sharp declines in admission of Black and Hispanic students to elite law schools. This puts law schools in a bind.
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U.S. News & World Report reworks law school rankings, but Yale won’t return
Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 3, 2023
Other law school deans aren’t satisfied, either. The magazine also said it has no intention of ending its rankings system.
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Penn State Built a Second Law School. Now, It’s Going Back to One.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
The university built a $60 million law building on its flagship campus. Now it’ll serve as a branch of a law school 80 miles away. A decade ago, Pennsylvania State University’s two law school campuses divorced, becoming two separately accredited entities. Now, they’re getting back together.
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Education Department settles with 5 law schools that it said improperly distributed financial aid
Higher Ed Dive
AUGUST 24, 2023
Institutions including New England Law Boston and New York Law School were accused of expending Title IV money on students in unaccredited programs.
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More law schools reject U.S. News list, but publication pledges to keep ranking ‘regardless of whether schools agree’
Higher Ed Dive
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Berkeley, Columbia and Georgetown law schools joined a roster of institutions rejecting the rankings that started Wednesday with Yale and Harvard.
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It isn’t just top-ranked law schools rejecting U.S. News rankings anymore
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Campbell University revolts against the list for similar reasons as others. But its lower ranking means it could have more to lose.
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Penn State will work to re-merge its law schools
Higher Ed Dive
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Maintaining two separately accredited schools is not the best use of resources in a competitive landscape, according to the university's president.
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Are U.S. News undergraduate rankings at risk with the exodus of law schools?
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Experts think the answer is probably not, but they see cracks in the foundation of a rankings system college admissions professionals largely abhor.
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The Law School Hiring Market Undervalues Women, Minorities
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 24, 2024
The latest attack on efforts to support diversity comes in the form of a lawsuit targeting Northwestern University’s law school. The suit accuses the school’s faculty and administration of snubbing high-profile white male applicants. Several years ago, I led the premiere tax law graduate program at NYU.
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Law school students can take up to half of their credits online after ABA policy change
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MAY 19, 2023
An American Bar Association survey last year showed law students favored distance learning classes over those in person.
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Cornell, University of Chicago law schools stick with U.S. News rankings
Higher Ed Dive
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
The decisions in part stem rankings' bleeding after others pulled out. Cornell dean asks what leaving lists based on public data will actually accomplish.
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Study: Law School Debt Weighs Down Many
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 24, 2024
In its latest report regarding higher education’s return on investment (ROI), Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce (CEW) has analyzed 186 law schools and found at nearly one-in-five law schools, graduates’ net take-home pay after student loan payments averages at $55,000.
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Compounding Inequities in Law School Are Not Insurmountable
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 13, 2024
Newly released data reveals that, although students of color are steadily making up a higher percentage of those receiving law degrees, racial diversity in law school admissions, and attendance remains relatively stagnant. Some measures of academic success also declined for law students of color in 2023.
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Proposal to Accredit Fully Online Law Schools Prompts Pushback
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 11, 2024
A group of law school deans are pushing back against a proposal from the American Bar Association’s accrediting arm that would allow fully online law schools to apply for accreditation, the ABA Journal reported last week.
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This week in 5 numbers: George Mason law school faces $38M in running losses
Higher Ed Dive
OCTOBER 4, 2024
We’re rounding up some of our top recent stories, from a heavy cumulative loss at one law school to a guide on welcoming transfer students.
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Yale, Harvard law schools drop out of U.S. News rankings, saying they undermine legal profession’s tenets
Higher Ed Dive
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
The Ivy League schools’ rejection adds fuel to an already-raging debate about the rankings' validity.
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Law School Admissions on the Rise
Insight Into Diversity
MAY 17, 2023
The number of students admitted into law schools rose in 2022, marking the first increase in seven years, according to a new report by the nonprofit AccessLex Institute. However, the data shows some progress for law schools in recruiting and retaining underrepresented individuals.
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Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School and Morris Brown College Partner for Law School Pipeline
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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College Fund Offers American Indian Law School Scholarship to Attend Harvard Law
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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Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles LGBT Center to Launch Legal Lifeline
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
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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Problems With Law School Test Frustrate Thousands
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 14, 2023
Thousands of students trying to take the Law School Admission Test remotely were thwarted Friday and Saturday by problems with the proctoring service the Law School Admission Council used for the first time this year.
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Former Governor Joins Alma Mater's Law School Faculty
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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Free Speech Requirement for Law Schools Moves Forward
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Free Speech Requirement for Law Schools Moves Forward kathryn.palmer… Tue, 11/21/2023 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer
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Law Schools Required to Adopt Free Speech Policies
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Law schools must adopt free speech policies to maintain their accreditation under a requirement approved by the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates Monday.
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Struggling law school seeks to reinvent itself
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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Study Investigates Racial Minority Student Law School Experiences
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 24, 2023
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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Testy Appointed to Lead the Association of American Law Schools
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 10, 2024
Testy has been appointed executive director and CEO of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Testy, the current president and CEO of the Law School Admission Council, begins her new role effective July 1. She also chaired the planning committee for the AALS Workshop for New Law School Teachers in 2010.
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Northwestern Law School Sued for Hiring Bias
Inside Higher Ed
JULY 3, 2024
Citing the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down affirmative action, a conservative group filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally discriminating against white men in faculty hiring.
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Johanna Bond Appointed Dean of Rutgers Law School
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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Stanford, Columbia, Penn, Mount Sinai medical schools withdraw from U.S. News rankings
Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 24, 2023
The exodus follows Harvard medical school and a contingent of law schools rejecting the listings.
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Law Schools See Record Diversity Ahead of Affirmative Action Ban
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.
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Law school "denaming" sparks donor debacle
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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ED Settles With Law Schools Accused of Improperly Disbursing Aid
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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St. Thomas University Law School Named Benjamin L. Crump College of Law
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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Golden Gate University Law School Ends J.D. Offerings
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Golden Gate University will cease offering a juris doctor program, though its law school will not shut down altogether and will continue offering non-J.D. degrees, Reuters reported last week.
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Association of American Law Schools President Speaks on Cooperative Politics
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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Kevin R. Johnson Wins Michael A. Olivas Award from Association of American Law Schools
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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Northeastern Law School Admitted Thousands by Mistake
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Northeastern University’s law school recently admitted thousands of applicants by mistake, NBC News reported. The admission emails were sent to 205 current law school applicants because of a “technical error.” The erroneous email was also sent to nearly 4,000 applicants who applied a year ago.
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What Just Happened at Stanford Law School?
Academe Blog
MARCH 13, 2023
BY JENNIFER RUTH Inside Higher Ed covers a story today that blew up over the weekend. That is, it “blew up” in a particular way in particular outlets. I found out about it quickly only because I look at the twitter accounts of those on the right who believe that institutions of higher ed are…
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Top Law Schools Produce Lawyers for Fossil Fuels
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 10, 2023
A new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability finds that the top 20 law schools in the U.S. law school. fossil fuel lawyers attended a top-20 law school. The Texas law school produces 12.9 percent more fossil fuel lawyers than the average law school.
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