Howard University partners with Kaplan to offer free graduate admissions test preparation
DIVERSE ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION — Howard University is partnering with Kaplan to give free test prep for graduate-level admissions exams and professional licensing exams. This test prep includes for tests such as the GRE®, GMAT®, LSAT®, and MCAT®, the bar exam, USMLE®, INBDE®, and NCLEX-RN®. And all Howard students interested in taking the exams…
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Professor Samir Parikh spearheaded a symposium hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Law Review that explored private equity’s shadowed practices in distressed debt markets.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — AccessLex Institute has awarded UM School of Law a $300,000 grant. AccessLex institute’s Bar Success Research Grant Program funds well-designed studies of the bar examination. The School of Law’s study, “The Relationship Between Curriculum Selections and Bar Exam Sub-scores,” will analyze the relationship between enrollment and performance in…
Read More about Grant to University of Miami Law to support bar exam preparation researchUniversity of Michigan Law professor Richard D. Friedman honored by the AALS Section on Evidence with lifetime achievement award
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL — Richard D. Friedman, the Alene and Allan F. Smith Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, is the 2023 recipient of the John Henry Wigmore Award for Lifetime Achievement. The Section on Evidence of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) bestows the award each year in recognition…
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THE WASHINGTON POST — Schools evolve, just as natural organisms do. One of the newest species is the early college high school, or just early college for short. It is an increasingly popular way to smooth the awkward high-school-to-college transition that has inflicted on unready teenagers such annoyances as scary SAT tests and slick college…
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL — Minnesota Law School will launch a Gun Violence Prevention Clinic in January 2023. The clinic is believed to be the first in-house law school clinic in the nation with a focus on promoting gun violence prevention through strategic litigation. The clinic will utilize student pro bono legal work to…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — While President Biden’s one-time student loan forgiveness plan remains tied up in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Education Department is working on a more far-reaching and costly plan to overhaul how people pay back their loans.
Read More about A look at recent changes to income driven student loan repayment plansMitchell Hamline Law Prison to Law Pipeline program featured on PBS NewsHour
MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Mitchell Hamline’s work to welcome the first-ever currently incarcerated students at an ABA-approved law school was featured in a story Tuesday evening on PBS NewsHour. The story, produced by Simeon Lancaster and part of reporter Fred de Sam Lazaro’s Agents For Change series and the NewsHour’s ongoing series Searching…
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UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FRANKLIN PIERCE SCHOOL OF LAW — Joining top law schools across the country, the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law has suspended its participation in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings. Megan Carpenter, dean and professor of law, said the “monolithic ranking system” is detrimental to legal…
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NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate and author of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle To Save America, will deliver a special presentation at Northeastern Law’s 15th annual Brown Forum | Women in the Law Conference on Friday, May 5, 2023. She will be joined in conversation…
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