University of San Diego Law Immigration Clinic and Mulvaney Center host informational DACA forum for community members
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO NEWS CENTER — The University of San Diego’s Legal Clinics, in partnership with Alliance San Diego, hosted a free, virtual DACA community forum last month for more than 20 participants. The forum provided a comprehensive overview of information about DACA policy updates and eligibility requirements.
Read More about University of San Diego Law Immigration Clinic and Mulvaney Center host informational DACA forum for community membersSanta Clara Law professors Stephanie Wildman and Margalynne Armstrong discuss re-release of book on race and privilege
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Twenty-five years ago, NYU Press first published Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America by Stephanie Wildman. With contributions from Margalynne Armstrong and others the book explores the systems of privilege the ways these systems remain unaddressed and ignored.
Read More about Santa Clara Law professors Stephanie Wildman and Margalynne Armstrong discuss re-release of book on race and privilegeSMU Dedman Law Criminal Justice Reform Center receives grant for rural justice systems research and right to counsel
SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW — The Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center at SMU Dedman School of Law was recently awarded a $150,000 grant from the W.W. Caruth, Jr. Fund at Communities Foundation of Texas to fund research into Texas’s rural criminal justice systems and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.
Read More about SMU Dedman Law Criminal Justice Reform Center receives grant for rural justice systems research and right to counselResearch co-authored by University of Virginia Law professor Cathy Hwang explores data on corporate governance
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Nearly two decades of influential scholarship on how corporations are governed and valued is based on bad data, according to new research co-authored by Cathy Hwang. The paper, “Cleaning Corporate Governance,” reveals that an index cited thousands of times is riddled with errors.
Read More about Research co-authored by University of Virginia Law professor Cathy Hwang explores data on corporate governanceWest Virginia University Law dean Amelia Smith Rinehart discusses her background and vision for the school
THE STATE JOURNAL — The West Virginia University College of Law turns 150 in seven years. In new William J. Maier, Jr. Dean Amelia Smith Rinehart, President E. Gordon Gee and Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Maryanne Reed believe they have just the leader to move toward that momentous occasion on a high note.
Read More about West Virginia University Law dean Amelia Smith Rinehart discusses her background and vision for the schoolColleges race to announce fall campus reopenings
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Good news about the COVID-19 vaccine couldn’t have come at a better time for college admissions officers. Dozens of colleges and universities have recently announced that they’ll be open in person this fall after waiting weeks or months to go public with fall plans. Colleges’ fall announcements started a few weeks ago.
Read More about Colleges race to announce fall campus reopeningsNew advocacy organization launched in defend faculty academic freedom
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Two hundred professors launched the nonpartisan Academic Freedom Alliance this week to advocate for free speech in academe and, in some cases, legally defend professors’ academic freedom. Membership is currently by invitation only, but the group plans on opening up to all academics.
Read More about New advocacy organization launched in defend faculty academic freedomDepartment of Education to review Title IX campus sexual assault policies
INSIDE HIGHER ED — President Biden on Monday ordered Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to re-examine his predecessor Betsy DeVos’s controversial rule strengthening the rights of those accused of sexual harassment or assault on the nation’s campuses. Biden said that Cardona should consider “suspending, revising, or rescinding” it.
Read More about Department of Education to review Title IX campus sexual assault policiesUndergraduate enrollment falls nationwide in spring 2021
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Enrollment across all institution types fell by 2.9 percent this term compared with last spring, according to new preliminary data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. These early numbers reveal similar declines to fall 2020, when enrollment fell by 3.3 percent year over year across the board.
Read More about Undergraduate enrollment falls nationwide in spring 2021Federal income-driven loan repayment program serves few students
INSIDE HIGHER ED — For more than 25 years, student loan borrowers have had the option to base their monthly payments on their income. But throughout the entire history of the program, only 32 borrowers have ever qualified for full forgiveness from the federal income-driven loan repayment program.
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