Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law selects Regina T. Jefferson as Interim Dean
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA — University President John Garvey announced the appointment of CUA Law Professor Regina T. Jefferson as the interim Dean for the Columbus School of Law. The appointment will be effective August 1, 2018, while the University continues its search for a permanent dean.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES — UCLA School of Law’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, one of the nation’s premier environmental law and policy programs, has received a $4.3 million commitment from the Emmett Foundation.
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FAST COMPANY — Law360’s 2018 Glass Ceiling Report found that women remain underrepresented among U.S. law firms, comprising just 36% of all attorneys.
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THE INDIANA LAWYER — Nine months after graduation, just 57 percent of the Class of 2013 had full-time, long-term J.D.-required jobs, and 11.2 percent were unemployed and looking for work. The data was collected by the American Bar Association and included jobs that were funded by law schools.
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FOX61 — Only 38 percent of law students passed the Connecticut bar exam earlier this year, the first time since 2000 that the pass rate for the February test fell below 50 percent.
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ABA JOURNAL — When data scientists want to know if their artificial intelligence software can recognize handwritten digits, they have to test it. For most, this means taking a dataset of black-and-white handwritten symbols and running it through the software.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES — Homeownership among Americans in their 20s and 30s is hovering near a three-decade low. Just 35 percent of households headed by someone younger than 35 owned a home in 2017, down from 41 percent in 1982, according to census data.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Recently released data on declining college enrollments in the U.S. and constraints on tuition pricing will continue to suppress tuition revenue growth this year, according to Moody’s, the credit-rating agency.
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PRESS OF ATLANTIC CITY — A new survey from Junior Achievement USA and Citizens Bank found many high school juniors and seniors, as well as college freshmen, felt unprepared to pay for college, and even more had not done any research on the topic.
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WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES — A proposed bill in Congress is generating a lot of discussion among the higher education community, including here in the north country.
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