HBCUs plan budget cuts after Congress misses deadline for funding
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Senate’s failure to renew $255 million in annual mandatory funding for historically black colleges is already having consequences on campuses, wrote Harry L. Williams, president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, in a letter to lawmakers Monday. The group, which represents public historically black colleges, had called on the Senate…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Representative Bobby Scott, the House education committee chairman, suggested Tuesday in a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that her department had illegally awarded federal aid to two ineligible for-profit college programs operated by the defunct Dream Center. Scott, a Virginia Democrat, also threatened to issue subpoenas if the Trump administration doesn’t…
Read More about House Democrats investigate U.S. Department of Education over aid to for-profit collegesMarquette Law poll looks at public sentiment and the U.S. Supreme Court
WDJT-MILWAUKEE — The Marquette Law School Poll has a new deep dive into national sentiment of our U.S. Supreme Court.
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LEGAL TALK NETWORK — With offers for summer employment going out to law students around the country, Thinking Like A Lawyer unveils its annual “The Offer” series. If you’re wondering which of your offers you should take, Joe and Elie are happy to anonymously discuss them. Just send them to [email protected] subject line “The Offer.” In…
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ABA JOURNAL — Feedback should be Rule No. 1 for any leader. Research consistently shows that the most powerful motivator in any organization is the opportunity to learn, to grow in responsibility, to contribute to a group effort or cause and to have their leaders recognize them for those contributions. Lawyer-leaders often are so caught up…
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DALLAS BUSINESS JOURNAL — A commercial litigator-turned-entrepreneur launched an interactive storybook that serves as part-fable and part-game that children of female lawyers can play on electronic devices to learn the story of a mother’s long journey to becoming a lawyer.
Read More about Interactive storybook for kids details path for lawyer momsArizona State University Law establishes Indian Gaming and Tribal Self-Governance program
THE STATE PRESS — The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law is creating the nation’s first programs in Indian Gaming and Tribal Self-Governance for its Indian Legal Program. Gaming refers to matters concerning casinos and gambling on Native American property for economic benefit. The programs are founded and will be directed by Ann MarieBledsoe Downes and Lawrence…
Read More about Arizona State University Law establishes Indian Gaming and Tribal Self-Governance programUniversity of Akron Law students at Immigration and Human Rights Clinic win cases for asylum-seekers
UNIVERSITY OF AKRON — Since fall 2016, University of Akron School of Law students at the school’s Immigration and Human Rights Clinic have provided one-on-one representation in removal defense cases for 32 asylum-seeking noncitizens detained at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center (NEOCC) in Youngstown and at other facilities throughout the country where appeals clients are held…
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW — On October 10, Professor Ruth L. Okediji Delivered the 8th Annual Peter A. Jaszi Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property. Her lecture addressed The Unfinished Business of Copyright Limitations and Exceptions. The lecture warned that it is important to not make limitations and exceptions like copyright – following a one size fits all pattern.…
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW — American University Washington College of Law Professor Michael Carroll participated in a panel discussion on copyright exceptions and limitations to benefit education and research at the World Intellectual Property Organization’s International Conference on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries, Archives, Museums and Educational & Research Institutions on October 18-19, 2019.
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