A look at racial disparities in student loan default rates
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION — Analysis of federal data shows that African Americans continue to struggle more than other borrowers with repaying student loans — despite heavy use of income-driven repayment programs.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — A new report found that wealthy students borrowed more frequently and borrowed larger sums in recent years, outpacing borrowing increases among less well-off students.
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BLOOMBERG LAW — 73 of the 769 companies tagged as “legal tech” in Crunchbase have a female founder. That’s 9.5%. Of the top 50 companies ranked by funding and designated “legal tech” in Crunchbase, sixteen, or 32%, have a female on the executive management team as of Nov. 21. Seven of those with female management also have…
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ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — Viewers wrote inspiring words on paper leaves and attached them to branches of another tree in an interactive display that was part of the Harriet Tubman Anniversary Pop-Up Exhibit—two days of art and performances that commemorated the 170th anniversary of Tubman’s escape from slavery and marked the 400th anniversary of the arrival…
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLGE OF LAW — On Thursday, Nov. 21, Professors Juan Mendez and Brenda Smith headed to Capitol Hill to participate in a congressional staff briefing on “Solitary Confinement: Briefing on H.R. 4488.” This recently introduced legislation focuses on developing and implementing national standards for the use of solitary confinement in federal correctional facilities. H.R.…
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — On Friday, Nov. 15, American University Washington College of Law welcomed the Government Accountability Project’s Food Integrity Campaign (FIC) for its 10th annual conference, “Representing Truth in Agriculture.” The day-long event featured influential panelists and speakers discussing food integrity issues such as environmental impacts and climate change, worker rights, food safety,…
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — Two students at American University Washington College of Law, 2L Lauren LaVare and 3L Ericka Cruz, have been chosen as recipients of the 2019-20 Myers Law Scholarship. The Myers Law Scholarship, AUWCL’s most prestigious donor award, provides one-year scholarships to full-time JD students who show academic promise and performance…
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UCI LAW — The University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) is delighted to announce that the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Charles P. Rettig, will be the keynote speaker at the Second Annual UCI-A. Lavar Taylor Tax Symposium at noon on February 24, 2020 on tax and artificial Intelligence. The Commissioner…
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UCI LAW — University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) Chancellor’s Professor of Law Michele Bratcher Goodwin will be featured in a conversation with Michelle Anderson the President of Brooklyn College, CUNY on Monday, Dec. 9 to discuss her book, “Policing The Womb.” “Policing the Womb,” will be published in February 2020 by Cambridge University…
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COLORADO LAW — An interdisciplinary team led by the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law and Policy Clinic (TLPC) at the University of Colorado Law School, in partnership with Dr. Scott E. Palo and CU Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science, had a role in influencing groundbreaking national policy for small satellites at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The…
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