A look at Willamette Law’s direct admission pathways
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY — Two years ago, Willamette University College of Law launched a series of direct admission pathway programs designed fundamentally to increase transparency for prospective students in the law school admission process. That effort has grown to six total partners, including the Willamette University College of Arts & Sciences.
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YALE DAILY NEWS — After publishing a story on the exoneration of a prisoner named Yutico Briley, Yale Law School professor Emily Bazelon ’93 LAW ’00, began to receive letters from incarcerated people who had heard about her story. Now, Bazelon and several law school students are working to make sure the voices behind the…
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YALE DAILY NEWS — The Yale Law School’s Strategic Advocacy Clinic filed a lawsuit last week on behalf of a professor who alleges she faced sex and race-based harassment during her time at Bard College.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Higher education associations generally like Education Secretary Miguel Cardona’s new regulations for Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 but want more clarity about how the changes would be carried out, as well as more time to put policies in place.
Read More about Department of Education receives thousands of comments on proposed Title IX regulationsCollege tuition increases have been slow and steady despite inflation
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — While high inflation continues to bedevil the wider economy, those price increases have yet to translate into significant spikes in college-tuition costs across the nation, according to data released on Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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HIGHER ED DIVE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will spend $100 million over five years to fund a group of nonprofit organizations working to help colleges “transform themselves” in the face of falling enrollment, increasing demands for educated workers and declining public confidence in higher education, it said Thursday.
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HIGHER ED DIVE — Democrats presented the LOAN Act as a continuation of President Joe Biden’s decision to cancel mass amounts of student loan debt, up to $10,000 per person making under $125,000 a year. Pell Grant recipients in the same income bracket can have up to $20,000 forgiven.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — U.S. News & World Report is today releasing its rankings of colleges and universities — largely unchanged at the top. And the magazine is also releasing very modest changes in the methodology that favor colleges where most students submitted standardized test scores — even though the magazine said in June 2020: “U.S. News…
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HIGHER ED DIVE — For now, Wednesday’s decision backs the Supreme Court out of a high-profile case in which religious protections clashed with New York City’s human rights law.
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NPR — When federal student loan borrowers take a breath from celebrating the cancelation of some or all of their federal student loans, millions of them could be in for a nasty surprise: While President Biden’s sweeping student debt relief won’t be subject to federal income tax, in seven states borrowers may have to pay state income…
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