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.

Law School 115

Law School Schooling Deans Retention 115

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.

Law School 98

Law School Schooling History Policy 98

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.

Law School 105

Law School Schooling Advise Deans 105

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.

Law School 98

Law School Schooling Department Of Education Department 98

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.

Law School 111

Law School Scholarship History Equity 111

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.

Law School 69

Law School Inclusivity Schooling Scholarship 69

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.

Law School 98

Law School Scholarship History Equity 98

FIRE

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In light of the disruption, UC Hastings proposed a revised Event Policy to ensure this illiberal heckler’s veto never happens again. The policy provides a roadmap for facilitating the expression of controversial speakers on campus. In failing to address hecklers’ vetoes, universities only engender more violence and less speech.

Policy 115

Policy Law School Professional Development Administration 115

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.,

Policy 111

Policy Law School Schooling Deans 111

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2024

a prominent legal and public policy scholar who co-founded the Harvard Civil Rights Project with Dr. Gary Orfield, died over the weekend. 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.,

Law School 28

Law School Advise Policy Equity 28

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

Moreover, an instructional designer with administrative privileges, such as senior ID, director, or assistant dean, can work collaboratively with faculty and administration to create important policies and procedures, promote one-stop-shop modalities, and recommend innovative and transformative practices for learning.

Schooling 104

Schooling Professional Development Technology Faculty 104

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.

Law School 111

Law School Education Deans Schooling 111

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

They decry the thought of students writing lab reports, law school exam responses and even entire term papers simply by putting the essay prompts into ChatGPT, waiting a few moments and then copying the results. We can start by including representatives of the disability constituency in policy development surrounding AI.

Policy 98

Policy University Technology Inclusivity 98

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Delisle Warden Delisle Warden has been appointed vice president for policy and general counsel at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland. He served as associate dean for the Center for Professional Development and Career Strategy at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.

Law School 105

Law School Professional Development Deans Community College 105

University Business

AUGUST 28, 2023

Federal Student Aid discovered five law schools that improperly disbursed $2.9 Albany Law School, Atlanta’s John Marshall School of Law, Brooklyn Law School, New England Law–Boston, and New York Law School are considered freestanding law schools, meaning they are not part of a broader university system with institutional accreditation.

Law School 52

Law School Schooling Department Of Education Department 52

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

Berg holds a bachelor’s degree and a juris doctorate from Cornell University as well as an MPH from Case Western Reserve, where she also held roles including associate director for the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy, associate director for the Law-Medicine Center, and health policy track coordinator for the Public Health Department.

Deans 105

Deans Schooling Law School Medical School 105

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2024

Harvard University plans to implement a policy of institutional neutrality, meaning it will not weigh in on public matters that do not affect the university’s core function. Simmons said the working group received input from more than 1,000 people across the university before arriving at the policy recommendation.

Institution 94

Institution Law School Policy Schooling 94

FIRE

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In the message to Yale Law alumni, Dean Heather Gerken outlined the “concrete steps” the law school has taken, beyond what the broader Yale administration has done , “to reaffirm our enduring commitment to the free and unfettered exchange of ideas.” . The post Yale Law dean’s message to alumni promises free speech changes.

Law School 98

Law School Deans Policy History 98

Insight Into Diversity

JULY 2, 2024

Students and faculty at Stanford Law School are leading advocacy efforts in intellectual and developmental disability (I/DD) law and policy by developing new resources and increasing awareness of, and access to, existing services and supports. The initiative, launched in 2019, was inspired by Alison D.

Advocate 111

Advocate Computer Science Policy Law School 111

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.

Faculty 80

Faculty Law School Deans Organization 80

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Harvard College and the University of North Carolina (SFFA) , the Court is once again faced with the decision to respect decades of precedent or reverse the holistic admissions policy that selective colleges have used since the Court ruled in the Grutter v. Bollinger decision in 2003.

Law School 130

Law School Leadership Equity Higher Education 130

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

2011 academy graduate Melissa McCafferty also accused Sulmasy of verbal harassment and of texting her that he would only write her a law school recommendation if she sent him photographs of herself, telling her he had always loved her foot tattoo.

Law School 110

Law School College Leadership Policy 110

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. Because servingness is less formulaic and more akin to a mosaic, institutional policies must be nuanced, multidimensional and responsive. She went on to become a law professor at the University of New Mexico.

Law School 119

Law School Achievement Postsecondary Education Guidance 119

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

A Stanford University law school dean at the center of a free speech controversy has been placed on leave amid continuing criticism of the March 9 event, at which students shouted down federal judge Kyle Duncan, an anti-LGBTQ+ conservative, who had been invited to speak on campus. Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

Deans 80

Deans Law School Inclusivity Administration 80

Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Housed within the Oklahoma City University (OCU) School of Law, this trailblazing institute is dedicated to reshaping the landscape of legal education and advocacy for Indigenous communities in Oklahoma.

Institution 109

Institution Education Deans Law School 109

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

1, 2023, making him the second layperson in the role at the Catholic school. Thomas, including interim president, dean of the law school, and associate professor of law. He was also an inaugural recipient of the Minnesota Lawyer Diversity and Inclusion Award for contributions to diversity and inclusion in law.

Arts And Sciences 98

Arts And Sciences Law School University Inclusivity 98

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Under her leadership, the law school increased its national profile, created new programming and pulled in more funding and resources. Dean Holley has led the law school to unprecedented heights, establishing the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center and driving applications to all-time highs.

Deans 116

Deans Liberal Arts Law School College 116

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2023

He was also founder and president of foreign policy advocacy organization TransAfrica. from Harvard Law School – also spent time teaching as a professor of human rights law at Penn State University. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass; Coretta Scott King; Randall Robinson Born 1941 in Richmond, Va., Robinson – he held a J.D.

Humanities 98

Humanities Advocate Law School Organization 98

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. She was never prescriptive, and I think that’s really rare in the law school setting.

Law School 98

Law School Faculty History Schooling 98

Insight Into Diversity

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.

Law School 52

Law School History Schooling Policy 52

The Guardian - Higher Education

JULY 1, 2023

That switch may have occurred most pointedly during his time at Yale, when, in Thomas’s own recollection, a white admissions officer told him and a group of Black students that none of them was qualified to be there.

Law School 68

Law School Students Policy Schooling 68

HEPI

JUNE 6, 2023

The regulatory framework applies to all, but the restrictions on fees and imposition of conditions regarding access and participation pose significant challenges for the University-Charity, which is required to remain independent and not to implement government policy except where that is also in the best interests of the charity.

University 132

University Guidance Higher Education Law School 132

University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

She has published articles in Harvard Law Review and Cornell Law Review, among others. in health policy in 1994 from Brandeis University. The president-elect currently serves as co-chair of the Board of Directors of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and sits on the board of the Law School Admissions Council.

Liberal Arts 104

Liberal Arts College Law School History 104

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.

Faculty 111

Faculty Liberal Arts University Law School 111

Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 30, 2023

Organized by the university’s law school dean, Roger A. the event featured a panel of legal and public policy scholars. American University in Washington, D.C., hosted a virtual teach-in on Monday to discuss Nichols’ killing and police violence against African Americans. Fairfax, Jr.,

University 98

University Law School Deans Faculty 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

Moreover, an instructional designer with administrative privileges, such as senior ID, director, or assistant dean, can work collaboratively with faculty and administration to create important policies and procedures, promote one-stop-shop modalities, and recommend innovative and transformative practices for learning.

Schooling 121

Schooling Professional Development Technology Faculty 121

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

from Yale Law School, and a Doctor of Education degree in educational administrative practice from Columbia University's Teachers College. . King holds a Bachelor of Arts in government from Harvard University, a Master of Arts in the teaching of social studies from Columbia University's Teachers College, a J.D.

Education 124

Education Law School Advocate Administration 124