Willamette Law professor Robin Morris Collin appointed to Environmental Protection Agency post
SALEM REPORTER — Robin Morris Collin knows the impacts of climate change aren’t spread evenly around. Like most other environmental problems, they hit people already marginalized harder – farmworkers laboring outdoors in extreme temperatures, or Oregonians who can’t afford air conditioning during a heat wave. After almost two decades teaching law at Willamette University in Salem and pushing…
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YALE DAILY NEWS — Last week, a team of international lawyers including former Dean of Yale Law School Harold Hongju Koh represented Ukraine at the International Court of Justice, or ICJ, in the Hague. Koh is a Sterling Professor of international law at Yale Law School and has also served as Legal Adviser for the United States…
Read More about Yale Law professor Harold Hongju Koh represents Ukraine at World CourtYale Law library launches initiative to donate books to prisons
YALE DAILY NEWS — After pausing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a Yale Law School Library initiative that brings books to prisons is back. The program first launched in 2020 and returned with a delivery in late February to a facility less than one mile from Yale Law School that did not have a library. The initiative…
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YALE DAILY NEWS — The Yale Law School’s Center for Law and Racial Justice is tackling issues on a local level through its Access to Law School program. The Access to Law School Program engages New Haven-area students and adults interested in the legal profession. The two-year program is led by current Yale Law School students,…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Black and Latino students were more likely than others to cancel or postpone their higher education plans during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study by the University of California, Los Angeles, Latino Policy and Politics Initiative. Before vaccines became available, 11.3 percent of multiethnic students, almost 11 percent of Latino students and 10 percent…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing Thursday about the series of bomb threats received by historically Black colleges and universities this year. Several HBCU student leaders told lawmakers of the fear and anxiety felt by students, faculty and staff members on their campuses and the value of an HBCU…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — An assistant professor of business at Chapman University is suing students for posting parts of his midterm and final course exams on the website Course Hero. But he doesn’t know who those students are yet. That’s what the lawsuit is for: by suing John Does for copyright infringement, the professor, David Berkovitz,…
Read More about College professor sues students for sharing exams on online platformDetails on federal student loan forgiveness qualifications
FORBES — Last week, the Biden administration announced that it had identified 100,000 borrowers who will qualify for $6.2 billion in student loan forgiveness — the latest wave of relief that the administration is providing to distressed borrowers. But the loan forgiveness has been preliminarily approved under a specific program with specific eligibility criteria. Here’s who qualifies. The…
Read More about Details on federal student loan forgiveness qualificationsSurvey: Public opinion of higher education improves slightly
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Public confidence in higher education ebbed badly in the latter half of the last decade, to judge by the steady stream of opinion polls from 2017 through 2019 that showed Americans (especially Republicans) increasingly convinced that colleges and universities were heading in the wrong direction, failing to prepare graduates for work and…
Read More about Survey: Public opinion of higher education improves slightlyPodcast: A look at diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the legal profession
JD SUPRA — In this episode of the Legal Marketing 2.0 podcast, Guy Is joined by Lloyd Johnson. Lloyd is the visionary and CEO of Chief Legal Executive LLC. He also founded the Black In-House Counsel. Lloyd continued his work into women’s advocacy with the creation of the groundbreaking Women, Influence & Power and the Law…
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