Education Department report suggests increasing financial pressures may be starting to affect colleges and universities
INSIDE HIGHER ED – An annual report from the Education Department’s National Center for Education Statistics shows that the number of colleges and universities eligible to award federal financial aid to their students fell by 5.6 percent from 2015-16 to 2016-17.
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RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL – The Rutgers clinic has filed over 280 trademark applications with the USPTO, with over 195 of those filed through the USPTO program.
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UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF LAW – Students learn to think and practice like a lawyer in the UNM Law School’s required six credit-hour Clinical Program.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW – A new online database curated by the University of Virginia School of Law Library compiles the preparatory documents for nine international human rights conventions created by the United Nations.
Read More about UVA Law library creates searchable archive for U.N. human rights documentsUniversity of Maine Law dean Danielle Conway honored by Maine Magazine as “leading by example”
MAINE – Danielle M. Conway teaches students about their obligation to defend the United States Constitution, to promote the rule of law, and to represent the most vulnerable in society.
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UPI – Former Interior Department official reminded House leaders earlier this week the gold-rush era ended a long time ago.
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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS – Loyola University New Orleans law professor Monica Hof Wallace received the “No Man is An Island” Outstanding Delegate Alumni Award from Louisiana Youth Seminar.
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UNIVERSITY OF UTAH – The researchers, who published an earlier report in 1998 in the Stanford Law Review, updated their original findings in a new report titled “Still Handcuffing the Cops?”
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HARVARD CRIMSON – A year after racially-focused protests rocked Harvard Law School, a student, faculty, and alumni task force has recommended changes to improve diversity and inclusion across the school.
Read More about Harvard Law task force releases diversity and inclusion report, recommendationsRecent Nebraska Law graduate wins national employee benefits writing competition
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA COLLEGE OF LAW – Alexander Engelkamp, ’17, won the 2017 Sidney M. Perlstadt Memorial Award in the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel’s Thirteenth Annual Employee Benefits Writing Competition.
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