University of Wyoming proposed budget cuts include removal of JAG Corps track and Summer Trial Institute
MARTINSVILLE BULLETIN – Nearly 80 positions will be eliminated, the operations budget will be cut and the athletic department will cut travel costs and reduce salaries as the University of Wyoming addresses a $42 million budget deficit exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. The proposal comes after Gov. Mark Gordon imposed the 10% cuts.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Several student-led groups within the Toll Public Interest Center (TPIC) came up with creative, socially-distant ways for law students to collaborate with local legal aid advocates who have been working hard to provide relief to those who have been hardest hit by the pandemic.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — In “Long-Term Care Policy after Covid-19 – Solving the Nursing Home Crisis,” Carey Law School Professor of Law Allison K. Hoffman advocates for “a combination of funding, regulation, and a new strategy that fully supports a range of institutional and noninstitutional care.”
Read More about Penn Law professor Allison K. Hoffman publishes article in the New England Journal of Medicine on the regulation of nursing homesWhat Law Schools Did and Are Doing in a Pandemic
What Great Law Schools Do (By Michael Hunter Schwartz) — Dean Schwartz (University of Pacific McGeorge Law) discusses law school efforts to support students and faculty during the pandemic.
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Tax Prof Blog (By Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a paper by professor Margaret Ryznar (Indiana University McKinney Law) that provides advice on administering online exams to students.
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Institute for Law Teaching and Learning Blog (By Angela Mae Kupenda) — Professor Kupenda (Mississippi College Law) discusses the changes she made to her constitutional law curriculum during the transition to online classes.
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Law School Academic Support Blog (By Steven Foster) — Professor Foster (Oklahoma City University Law) shares an article published by the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) and AccessLex Institute by professor Deborah Jones Merritt (Ohio State University Law) and Logan Cornett (IAALS Director of Research). The authors offer suggestions for…
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Best Practices for Legal Education (By Carrie Sperling) — Professor Sperling (University of Wisconsin Law) reflects on the stress and anxiety students are facing during the pandemic and the election. She provides suggestions on how faculty can create a supportive environment for their students.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Several studies show colleges that serve greater percentages of students of color, and are more likely to enroll students who struggle with poverty and other inequities in succeeding in college, have less to spend for each of their students than better-heeled institutions.
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Columbia and Yale universities today unveiled an interactive map that guides policy makers and the public in deploying health care workers to communities most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The online map, Mapping the New Politics of Care, uses a wide array of data.
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