University of Virginia Law students collaborate on report to the ABA on rising dementia rates in prisons
THE CAVALIER DAILY — Continuing research by professors at the School of Law that highlights the increasing rate of people in federal and state prisons suffering from dementia.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Fifty years in, Virginia Law Women — one of the first student affinity groups at UVA — is going back in time to recapture its lost history, particularly its evolution as a diverse organization.
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PENN LIVE PATRIOT NEWS — Widener Law Commonwealth and East Stroudsburg University have announced a partnership. The partnership will provide the opportunity for East Stroudsburg University students to complete their undergraduate and law degrees in six years.
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ED UP LEGAL — Legal education is experiencing large swings in applications; a call for innovation & adaptation; demand for increased diversification of the profession; & cries for social justice impact & protection of the Rule of Law.
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THE HILL — The White House on Tuesday released a state-by-state breakdown of borrowers affected by President Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan, which could eliminate student debt entirely for 20 million borrowers.
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TEEN VOGUE — Writing in The New York Times in 2002, Sid Wolinsky, a lawyer and cofounder of Disability Rights Advocates, said that “standardized tests test students’ disabilities, not their abilities.”
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NPR — HBCUs have long been underfunded by federal and state governments. But this time, because of the way federal COVID relief money was allocated, these schools got a lot of it. For one thing, much of the funding targeted schools that serve more low-income students, which HBCUs do.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — While Black students disproportionately attend community colleges, their enrollment at these institutions has significantly dropped and gaps in their academic outcomes have more than doubled over time compared to their white peers, according to a new report by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a think tank focused on…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Common Application has experienced a large rise in minority applications over the last eight years. While the total number of applications grew by 72 percent, underrepresented minority applications grew by 131 percent.
Read More about Common App sees increase in minority college applicantsFive universities produce one eighth of all tenure-track professors in the country
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Just five universities have produced one-eighth of the U.S. professoriate, and 80 percent of tenure-track professors at doctoral institutions earned their Ph.D.s from 20 percent of the nation’s universities.
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