A calculation error on federal student aid forms is causing additional delays
PBS NEWS HOUR — Students waiting on financial aid will have to wait even longer after the Department of Education found a calculation error on hundreds of thousands of FAFSA applications.
Read More about A calculation error on federal student aid forms is causing additional delaysCollege applicants consider the discussion of race in college essays following US Supreme Court decision on affirmative action
STAR TRIBUNE — When she started writing her college essay, Hillary Amofa told the story she thought admissions offices wanted to hear. About being the daughter of immigrants from Ghana and growing up in a small apartment in Chicago. About hardship and struggle.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — New York is poised to make it easier for its private nonprofit colleges to merge with institutions in other states.
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AP NEWS — Two graduate students from China whose studies were put on hold, and a professor who says he is unable to recruit research assistants, sued Florida education officials on Monday, trying to stop enforcement of a new state law which limits research exchanges between state universities and academics from seven prohibited countries.
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WBUR — Erica Meltzer, national editor at Chalkbeat, joins us to discuss the new digital SAT. The new version of the college admissions test is shorter and adaptive, meaning students who score relatively low on the first half of the test will get easier questions in the second half.
Read More about Podcast: New digital SAT is shorter and more adaptive for studentsCalifornia State Bar considers increase in dues
REUTERS — State Bar of California trustees on Thursday voted to pursue a $125 increase in the mandatory fees attorneys will pay in 2025 — lower than the $150 jump they indicated they would seek earlier this month.
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THE STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA — The State Bar’s Annual Diversity Report Card released today highlights the demographic composition of California’s 2023 attorney population and, for the first time, analyzes changing trends in demographic representation since 2019.
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BLOOMBERG LAW — Oregon’s new Supervised Practice Portfolio Examination (SPPE), which will allow ABA-accredited law school graduates to join the state’s bar by completing a legal apprenticeship instead of taking the bar exam, could serve as a model for other states as scrutiny of the current bar exam mounts.
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CATO INSTITUTE — Jokes about the abundance of “ambulance chasers” aside, the fact is that some parts of America face a shortage of lawyers rather than the surplus that those critical of the profession might expect.
Read More about A look at states pursuing alternative licensing pathways for lawyersUkraine/US peer-to-peer law student legal writing project completes second session
Georgetown Legal English Blog — The author shares reflections from the second week of a Georgetown Law program that partners the school’s students with Ukrainian law students on legal English writing projects.
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