Survey: Many college students are reluctant to seek mental health support during the pandemic
INSIDE HIGHER ED — For many students, spending the year with COVID has felt like being on a sinking ship, desperately searching for a lifeboat and perhaps choosing one that falters when lowered. Campus counseling centers and their staffs are continuing to comfort others even as their own lives are at stake.
Read More about Survey: Many college students are reluctant to seek mental health support during the pandemicZoom criticized for canceling controversial virtual events organized by college groups
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Videoconferencing platform Zoom published a new policy giving higher education institutions greater control over their online events and the speakers to whom they chose to give platforms. For academics and groups supporting free speech and academic freedom, the changes are a welcome step in the right direction.
Read More about Zoom criticized for canceling controversial virtual events organized by college groupsA look at the US Senate confirmation hearing for James Kvaal as Secretary of Education
INSIDE HIGHER ED — President Biden’s nominee for under secretary of education, James Kvaal, appears likely to be headed to the full Senate for a vote on his confirmation after a relatively drama-free committee hearing on his nomination. Kvaal appeared before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Thursday.
Read More about A look at the US Senate confirmation hearing for James Kvaal as Secretary of EducationCalifornia community college enrollment falls sharply amid pandemic
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The California Community College system had a 12 percent enrollment decline from fall 2019 to fall 2020 — a loss of 186,688 students — a staggering figure for the largest college system in the country and a likely harbinger of the demographic and fiscal challenges that lie ahead for the sector nationally.
Read More about California community college enrollment falls sharply amid pandemicLaw professors and deans selected for Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States
ABA JOURNAL — Law professors make up the bulk of the members on President Joe Biden’s newly created Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, tasked with studying proposals to reform the high court. The 36-member commission will examine the merits and legality of reform proposals.
Read More about Law professors and deans selected for Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United StatesWhat federal student loan forgiveness proposals may mean for law school debt
ABA JOURNAL — People with law school loans could benefit if President Joe Biden authorizes a plan to forgive all or a portion of student debt, but it could exclude those who owe private lenders and impose limits based on income, experts say. Forgiving private school loan debt “would require the government to pay private lenders.”
Read More about What federal student loan forgiveness proposals may mean for law school debtElon Law to host national symposium on the opportunities and challenges faced by first-generation law school students
ELON UNIVERSITY — The opportunities and challenges faced by first-generation law school students will be the central theme of panel discussions and breakout groups as Elon Law hosts a Zoom conference on April 16, 2021, with legal educators and students from around the United States. There is no cost to attend; advanced registration is required.
Read More about Elon Law to host national symposium on the opportunities and challenges faced by first-generation law school studentsUIC John Marshall Law dean and AALS past president Darby Dickerson named dean of Southwestern Law
SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL — I am extremely pleased to announce that Southwestern’s next President and Dean is Darby Dickerson, the current Dean at UIC John Marshall Law School and Immediate Past President of the Association of American Law Schools. Her five-year term begins on July 1st.
Read More about UIC John Marshall Law dean and AALS past president Darby Dickerson named dean of Southwestern LawWagner University partners with CSU Cleveland-Marshall Law and Vermont Law on accelerated ‘3+3’ bachelor’s/JD program
WAGNER UNIVERSITY — We are excited to announce the launch of our 3+3 law school program! Some Wagner students know, after their very first year of college, that they want to go to law school. For those students, our Wagner 3+3 program may save them a full year of college work and tuition.
Read More about Wagner University partners with CSU Cleveland-Marshall Law and Vermont Law on accelerated ‘3+3’ bachelor’s/JD programFlorida, New York, California, and Washington, DC will hold remote bar exams in July
BLOOMBERG LAW — Florida’s July bar exam will be held remotely, the third time the state has adjusted its administration of the biannual test for lawyers in training amid the pandemic. Applicants taking the exam on July 27 and July 28 will be required to download the same software used for the February bar exam.
Read More about Florida, New York, California, and Washington, DC will hold remote bar exams in July