Arizona and Utah proposals allow non-lawyers to practice some areas of law
ABA JOURNAL — “The vast majority of people in Arizona just can’t afford an attorney, no matter how great of a system we have,” said council member David K. Byers, who spoke on the panel. Byers is the administrative director of Arizona courts and a member of a state task force on legal services delivery. The…
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AKRON BEACON JOURNAL — DeWine announced a project Tuesday to simplify and expedite the pardon process for rehabilitated one-time criminals who have led model lives for at least a decade following release from prison. Students and staff at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law and the University of Akron School of Law will assist by screening…
Read More about Akron and Ohio State University Law schools to collaborate on Ohio expedited pardon projectOpinion: Need for racial diversity on campuses
THE WASHINGTON POST — We are today, and have been since our origin, a nation divided. Our many schisms arise from political opinions, cultural and racial identities, religious dogma and more. When these differences meet and combust, the results are often destructive, even tragic. How to address the more robust and dangerous differences among us is, in…
Read More about Opinion: Need for racial diversity on campusesCarnegie Mellon University and Elsevier announce open access articles agreement
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Carnegie Mellon University and Elsevier Thursday announced a new agreement to radically change how the institution pays to read and publish research. Instead of paying separately to access Elsevier’s catalog of paywalled content and publish open-access articles in Elsevier journals, Carnegie Mellon will pay one flat fee for both.
Read More about Carnegie Mellon University and Elsevier announce open access articles agreementOpinion: Need for greater diversity in deanships
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Thirty-five percent of education deans who responded to a survey by the Center for Academic Leadership in 1996-97 were women, and 15 percent were racial or ethnic minorities. By the 2015-16 academic year, nearly two-thirds of newly appointed education deans were women, according to The Chronicle’s Gazette listings. However, the…
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NPR — For over half a century, student loan borrowers like Denise — with a significant, permanent disability — have been protected by federal law. If they can no longer work enough to support themselves, they can ask the U.S. Department of Education to erase their debts. But an NPR investigation has found that hundreds of…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Higher education is the great equalizer. Correction: a bachelor’s degree is the great equalizer. Graduate and professional degrees? Not so much, according to a forthcoming study in Social Science Research that seeks to explain why intergenerational mobility is high for college graduates but lower among advanced degree holders.
Read More about Study: Graduate and professional degrees have lower intergenerational mobilityMore than 100 colleges oppose end of program that allows international students to work in U.S. after graduation
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Lawsuit challenges program that lets international students temporarily work in the U.S. Colleges say ending the program would harm students’ education and recruitment abroad. Colleges say that ending the program would severely harm the ability of U.S. universities to attract international students.
Read More about More than 100 colleges oppose end of program that allows international students to work in U.S. after graduationReport on college teachers finds more full-time instructors and fewer part-time instructors over the last four years
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The American college faculty is, once again, becoming more heavily full-time than part-time, new federal data reveal — as professors make up a modestly smaller part of the overall higher education workforce. Throughout the early part of this decade, Education Department data showed that the number of instructors who worked part-time consistently outpaced…
Read More about Report on college teachers finds more full-time instructors and fewer part-time instructors over the last four yearsRepurposing closed or closing colleges comes with challenges
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Figuring out how to use a closed or closing college campus is a challenge — one often falling on the same leaders who had to shut it down in the first place.
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