Opinion: How college graduate programs can improve diversity efforts
DIVERSE ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION — Diversity in graduate programs doesn’t just happen, and it certainly can’t be achieved in one admissions cycle with a few quick fixes to your recruitment efforts and admissions policies. It requires a conscious effort to build a strong base of undergraduate students from underrepresented communities, often from backgrounds that are different…
Read More about Opinion: How college graduate programs can improve diversity effortsPenn State Dickinson Law associate dean Jeffrey Dodge’s essay on teaching equity and inclusion included in new book
PENN STATE — Jeffrey A. Dodge, associate dean for academic and student services, assistant professor, and Joseph H. Goldstein Faculty Scholar at , had his essay proposal, “Teaching Family Law Through the Lens of Minoritized Identities” accepted for publication with Carolina Academic Press in the book titled, “Integrating Doctrine & Diversity: Inclusion and Equity Beyond the…
Read More about Penn State Dickinson Law associate dean Jeffrey Dodge’s essay on teaching equity and inclusion included in new bookDistinguished Attorney Gives Back to His Law School Alma Mater, Donating $3 Million to Establish The Benny Agosto, Jr. Diversity Center at South Texas College of Law Houston
CISION PRESS NEWSWIRE — Houston trial attorney Benny Agosto, Jr.’s recent gift to establish a diversity center at his alma mater, South Texas College of Law Houston, combined two of his life passions: giving back to the community and encouraging more diversity in the legal field. In grateful recognition of the $3 million gift from Nikki and…
Read More about Distinguished Attorney Gives Back to His Law School Alma Mater, Donating $3 Million to Establish The Benny Agosto, Jr. Diversity Center at South Texas College of Law HoustonABA legal education section again seeks comment on law school diversity standard revisions
ABA JOURNAL — Following criticism on proposed changes to a law school diversity standard, additional suggested revisions—and clarifications—will be sent out for notice and comment. The action was approved Friday by the council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, which met in San Francisco. “Based on the notice and comment process, we…
Read More about ABA legal education section again seeks comment on law school diversity standard revisionsAccessLex Institute partners with 10 law schools on unique admission and scholarship program for underrepresented students
REUTERS — Ten U.S. law schools have agreed to offer one-year deferred admission and scholarship money to promising, underrepresented candidates whose initial applications don’t make the cut, according to AccessLex Institute, a nonprofit that advocates for access and affordability in legal education. To keep their place at the participating schools, including Willamette University College of Law…
Read More about AccessLex Institute partners with 10 law schools on unique admission and scholarship program for underrepresented studentsCorporate Counsel Women of Color announces new scholarship for third-year students
CISON PR NEWSWIRE — Corporate Counsel Women of Color® (CCWC) is pleased to announce a special opportunity for diverse third-year law students. In support of CCWC’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, Kaplan has made a contribution of bar preparation course packages to be distributed to students from underrepresented groups. Course package winners will be chosen by…
Read More about Corporate Counsel Women of Color announces new scholarship for third-year studentsPenn State Dickinson Law announces plans for Antiracist Development Institute
PENN STATE — Penn State Dickinson Law will further recent faculty action to lead antiracism efforts by creating an Antiracist Development Institute (ADI), a program offering organizations across the country systems design-based approaches to implementing antiracist practices, processes and policies throughout each of their functions. The ADI will run its first prototype course in summer 2022, concurrent…
Read More about Penn State Dickinson Law announces plans for Antiracist Development InstituteAlbany Law dean Alicia Ouellette and professor Ray Brescia published by Oxford University Press
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — President and Dean Alicia Ouellette ‘94 and The Hon. Harold R. Tyler Chair in Law and Technology Professor Ray Brescia recently had scholarly work published by Oxford University Press. Ouellette’s article, People with Disabilities in Human Subjects Research: A History of Exploitation, a Problem of Exclusion, was published in Oxford Handbooks Online, one…
Read More about Albany Law dean Alicia Ouellette and professor Ray Brescia published by Oxford University PressNew report shows college boards lack diversity
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The board members who oversee America’s colleges and universities are still overwhelmingly white and male, though institutions have diversified their boards somewhat in recent years, a new report from the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges shows. The new report—titled “Policies, Practices and Composition of Governing Boards of Colleges, Universities and…
Read More about New report shows college boards lack diversityHow the legal community created opportunities for underrepresented law students during the pandemic
REUTERS — Over the past 18 months, students from diverse backgrounds have borne witness, all too often, to a broken system of law enforcement amid a global pandemic, race-based hate crimes, and the continuing dehumanization of undocumented persons and refugees — all of which have put a spotlight on the stark inequities in our legal system…
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