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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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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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. Underrepresented students were also less likely to receive offers compared to their White counterparts.

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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. Gatewood, Dean and CEO of AJMLS.

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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. Maltais is an American Indian College Fund student ambassador, a 2018 Dartmouth College graduate, and an American Indian College Fund Full Circle Scholar.

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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

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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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 14, 2023

Staffing shortages and software issues at a vendor cause headaches for would-be law students taking the LSAT. 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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Higher Ed Dive

JULY 17, 2023

Institutions must adapt their curricula to incorporate artificial intelligence-related topics, the dean of William & Mary Law School argues.

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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. It also greatly expands students’ options for online classes.

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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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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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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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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A new partnership forged by University of Leicester and Toronto’s Humber Polytechnic offers Canadian students access to a two year pre-law course, leading to three years studying the subject at degree-level at Leicester’s Law School. According to Vaughan, the course is “personalising the learning path” for law students.

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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. It highlighted the University of Tennessee’s exclusion of Black students. Robinson would soon join their ranks.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The law school of Yale University has been known—and this is rare in law schools—for giving out all aid based on need. On Thursday, it announced an expansion of a full-tuition scholarship to students from families who earn up to up to 200 percent of the federal poverty line.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The law schools of Columbia, Georgetown and Stanford Universities all announced on Friday that they would leave the U.S. The law schools of Harvard and Yale Universities announced Wednesday that they were no longer participating. The law school of the University of California, Berkeley, announced on Thursday.

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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The law school of the University of California, Los Angeles, announced Tuesday that it is dropping out of the U.S. And on Wednesday, the law school of the University of California, Irvine, joined the movement. UCLA Law does all of these things, but honoring our core values comes at a cost in rankings points.”

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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. It highlighted the University of Tennessee’s exclusion of Black students. Robinson would soon join their ranks.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The law schools of Harvard and Yale Universities announced Wednesday that they would no longer participate in the rankings of U.S. On Thursday, the law school of the University of California, Berkeley, joined the movement. News & World Report. ” Ad keywords: admissions Is this diversity newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2023

Department of Education has settled with five free-standing law schools after an investigation showed that those institutions “improperly disbursed” federal financial aid to students enrolled in unaccredited master of laws programs.

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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.”

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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. Miles wrote to students that “my past practice has been to avoid direct, public comment on the U.S. ” Cornell’s law school also announced that it will still participate in the rankings of U.S. News ranking.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2023

News' rankings methods have encouraged the neglect of low-income students. 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.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 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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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 2, 2024

A recent study revealed a significant decline in racial diversity among law students in states that have banned race-conscious admission over the past 30 years. Conducted by law professors from Yale University, New York University, and Northwestern University, the study is entitled “Affirmative Action and Racial Diversity in U.S.

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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.”

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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

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

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

News & World Report’s rankings of the best law schools. The movement was initiated by Yale University last Wednesday when the school’s dean announced that the institution will no longer submit its data for review. News will therefore continue to rank the nearly 200 accredited law schools in the United States.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Supreme Court ruled affirmative action in college admissions unconstitutional, the law schools at both universities named as defendantsHarvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hilladmitted fewer Black students this fall than in years past. A year after the U.S.

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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. Our students work incredibly hard for our clients,” he says. The client, a U.S.

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University Business

JANUARY 4, 2023

After some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions dropped out of its best law schools rankings, U.S. News & World Report’s best law schools. Yale University, which regularly lands at the top of the list, kicked off the exodus when law school Dean Heather K. . Best law schools overhaul.

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