Opinion: Efforts to rate quality of colleges needs improvement
WASHINGTON POST – “Another approach under discussion by higher-education officials might prove helpful to students and parents trying to assess the quality of colleges in the future: an audit of the assertions that colleges make about their quality.”
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INSIDE HIGHER ED – The following table lists the winning gubernatorial candidates in Tuesday’s elections and their pledges on higher education.
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CLARION-LEDGER – Mississippi College School of Law professor Patricia Bennett will soon become the institution’s interim dean.
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WKAR (NPR MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY) – Ponoroff explains how a legal education can be valuable beyond the traditional practice of law and how it’s something that can be put to work in a lot of different ways.
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FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW – On November 3, 2016, Professor Charles C. Jalloh was elected by United Nations member states to the International Law Commission.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED – “To anticipate the higher ed priorities of a Trump administration, look to policies already proposed by Republicans in Congress.”
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KTRK (ABC HOUSTON) – The South Texas College of Law has changed its name just slightly in an apparent effort to avoid a lawsuit by the University of Houston.
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LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL LOS ANGELES – For a group of Loyola Law School students pursuing freedom on behalf of federal inmates, writing clemency petitions was a life-changing experience – for both them and their clients.
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OC WEEKLY – UCI Law Professor L. Song Richardson and 2016 UCI Law grad Kevin Lerman filed a request for clemency for Gutierrez because the law has changed since his conviction and he would receive a much shorter sentence if sentenced today.
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BAYLOR UNIVERSITY – Baylor Law School will host its annual Veterans Day Wills Clinic to provide free aid to vets and their spouses.
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