Women faculty discuss teaching at UMass Law
UMASS LAW NEWS — With the most recent grant of tenure, women now make up 54% of the tenured faculty at UMass Law. Overall, 55% of UMass Law students are female, including 59% in this year’s entering class. Nationally, UMass Law is one of only 22 ABA-accredited law schools with a majority female tenured faculty.
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NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Northeastern Law will celebrate Black History Month 2021 with a slate of virtual events including a bookclub hosted by Professor Patricia Williams, a pioneer of both the law and literature and critical race theory movements in American legal theory.
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — The 2021 University of Houston Law Center Spring Workshop Series, “Racial Justice and the Law” began on Monday on Monday, with Professor Bennett Capers of Fordham Law School joining Dean Leonard M. Baynes and Law Center professors and students a virtual discussion of Capers’ work in progress.
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GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — Georgia State College of Law has announced the five winners of its first ever Racial Justice Innovations Initiative. The program funds projects to enhance diversity, equity and inclusion within the College of Law. All law students, faculty and staff were invited to submit proposals for projects.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Dana Dyer L’22 and Magali Duque L’22 have published “Black Women Future Leaders,” a report developed as part of Rangita de Silva de Alwis’s “Women, Law, and Leadership” course at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
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USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW — USC Gould School of Law Professor Jody Armour rises to role of giving context to national protests for criminal justice reform and end to racism. George Floyd was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis on May 25, and the news cycle flipped and Armour’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — White professors and their nonwhite counterparts have very different perceptions of what constitutes diversity and inclusion, according to a recent analysis from the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.
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THE HECHINGER REPORT — When Worcester Polytechnic Institute wanted to attract more Black, Hispanic and female students, it became the first nationally ranked science university to make the ACT and SAT standardized tests optional for admission. Eliminating the test requirement can increase low-income and first-generation students.
Read More about A look at college admission changes amid calls for a more inclusive student enrollmentLarge anonymous gift supports NAACP Legal Defense Fund scholarships for law students committed to careers in racial justice and civil rights law
ABC NEWS — The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund launched a $40 million scholarship program on Monday to support a new generation of civil rights lawyers, dedicated to pursuing racial justice across the South. With that whopping gift from a single anonymous donor, the fund plans to put 50 students through law schools.
Read More about Large anonymous gift supports NAACP Legal Defense Fund scholarships for law students committed to careers in racial justice and civil rights lawFordham Law partners with Vance Center’s TotalLAW Prep program to provide LLM scholarships to underrepresented students
FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Fordham Law is honored to participate in the Vance Center’s TotalLAW Prep program. This program, designed to increase diversity and inclusion in the legal profession, establishes a pipeline of highly talented Afro-Descendent and Indigenous lawyers from Latin America. “Fordham Law is delighted to play a role in this initiative.”
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