Arizona State University Law recognized for commitment to diversity and accessibility

July 1, 2019

ASU NOW — Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law recently received the 2019 Diversity Matters Award for its commitment to increasing diversity and accessibility to quality legal education.

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University of Arizona Law offers flexible master’s degree in indigenous governance

July 1, 2019

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA LAW — Working professionals seeking training in indigenous governance leadership now have more educational opportunities, thanks to flexible new offerings from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law’s Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program and the University of Arizona Native Nations Institute.

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Berkeley Law event offers advice for women interested in corporate law

June 24, 2019

LAW.COM — Lawyers from Kirkland & Ellis, Wilson Sonsini Goorich & Rosati and Netflix Inc. shared their recruitment stories, tips and observations at a Berkeley Center for Law and Business event aimed at promoting women in business law.

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Michigan State Law student Maurisa Bell honored by Native American Law Students Association

June 17, 2019

LEGAL NEWS — Michigan State University College of Law student Maurisa Bell grew up a member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe from the Wind River Reservation in Riverton, Wyoming. As a child, she dreamed of becoming a working lawyer in Washington, DC, despite growing up around very few lawyers.

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University of Houston Law Center pre-law pipeline program enters fifth year

June 17, 2019

PR NEWSWIRE — The eight-week summer course is designed to increase diversity among law school applicants and to provide students from low-income, first generation, and underrepresented backgrounds an opportunity to seriously consider legal education. The program divides students into two tracks — LSAC’s DiscoverLaw.Org Prelaw Undergraduate Scholars (PLUS) Program and Scholar II.

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University of Houston Law Center pipeline program celebrates five years

June 17, 2019

UH LAW CENTER — Class is in session for the University of Houston Law Center’s Pre-Law Pipeline Program, with 42 undergraduate students from across the nation currently receiving faculty instruction in typical first-year law courses.

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Denver Law faces additional gender and wage discrimination lawsuit

June 17, 2019

ABA JOURNAL — Rashmi Goel, a tenured associate professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, has filed an Equal Pay Act complaint, claiming that she earns significantly less than others in her academic category.

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New report looks at race and student loan debt

June 17, 2019

INSIDE HIGHER ED — A new report from the left-leaning think tank Demos argues that looking at borrowers’ income alone provides limited insight into student loan burdens.

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A look at Syracuse Law’s admission agreements with three HBCUs

June 14, 2019

DIVERSE ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION — A new agreement between Syracuse University College of Law and Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College and Spelman College will fulfill a dual objective: diversifying the student body of the law school – and thus the legal profession

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Kenesha Starling selected as editor-in-chief of South Texas Law Review

June 14, 2019

STCL HOUSTON — A second-year law student at South Texas College of Law Houston (STCL Houston) recently broke a nearly 100-year-old glass ceiling at Houston’s oldest law school. Kenesha Starling earned the esteemed role as the first black editor-in-chief of South Texas Law Review since the school’s founding in 1923.

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