New book gives tips and advice to first-year law students
BOSTONIA — The first year of law school is famously tough, and most first-year students, One Ls, as they are called, couldn’t work any harder if they wanted to. Now a BU School of Law graduate has written a book to help One Ls cope and get better grades, all by working smarter, rather than harder.…
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NATIONAL JURIST PRELAW — “Do law schools have majors?” Tania asked me during office hours. Tania is interested in environmental law. Environmental law is a very popular area of interest these days, so she wants to find law schools that specialize in it. While you do not pick a “major” in law school, and no specialty…
Read More about How to choose a legal practice area and find law school specializationsAdvice for law school students on overcoming failure
ABOVE THE LAW — The students are angry because they are required to take a class they don’t believe they need and don’t think will help them. But on a deeper level, I believe they are upset with themselves and their perceived failure and I am the physical representation of all those things. It is…
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BUFFALO BUSINESS FIRST — The passage rate for prospective attorneys who took the New York State Bar Examination this past summer saw a three-percentage-point increase from 2018.
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WGBH — An NPR story this week revealed that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau attempted such examinations but was thwarted by the Trump administration’s Department of Education. At issue is the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, which aims to help police, military service members, teachers, people who work at nonprofits and others. If they make…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Do college and university presidents believe their institutions are well prepared to adapt to the major headwinds facing higher education? And are their institutions operating in ways that suggest they are well positioned? The report, “The Transformation-Ready Higher Education Institution,” included a survey of nearly 500 senior administrators at four-year colleges and universities,…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Female academics have about half the followers of men on Twitter and wield otherwise diminished influence there, according to a new study. The analysis pertains to medicine, but women across fields say the findings ring true. Observers of gender dynamics, casual or expert, probably won’t be surprised by the findings. But they do…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The U.S. Department of Education is poised to begin a limited experiment with a prepaid student aid card, which would operate like a debit card for aid. Under the program, students would be able to access the funds without paying fees, and the feds would be able to learn more about…
Read More about U.S. Department of Education pilots debit card for student expensesU.S. falls in ranking for university research funding
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The U.S. has dropped its position relative to other countries in university research funding, according to a new report by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), and now holds the 28th spot out of 39 countries, with just 0.2 percent of its gross domestic product dedicated to university research funding. Switzerland,…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — ull- and part-time professors at the University of New Mexico voted to form a union affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors, they announced late last week. The vote was 500 to 304 in favor of unionization among full-time professors. Among adjuncts, the vote was 256…
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