80.5% of law professors prefer in-person instruction
(The Faculty Lounge) by Bridget Crawford – Professor Crawford (Pace Law) analyzes data from a national student survey and her own anecdotal survey of law faculty.
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(PrawfsBlawg) by Howard Wasserman – Professor Wasserman (FIU Law) shares an op-ed on a lawsuit filed by the parent of a George Washington Law student who alleges breach of contract over the decision of the school to move all classes to remote instruction during the pandemic without refunds to students.
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(PrawsfsBlawg) by Howard Wasserman – Professor Wasserman (FIU Law) discusses the pitfalls of hybrid in-person and online classes.
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(PrawfsBlawg) by Paul Horowitz – Professor Horowitz (University of Alabama Law) shares reflections from Professor Jason Yackee (University of Wisconsin Law) on diploma privilege in Wisconsin, allowing the state’s law school graduates to be admitted to practice without taking the bar exam.
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(TaxProf Blog) by Paul Caron – Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares updated guidance from the Department of Education providing additional flexibility for colleges to provide classes online.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Advocates for active learning worry that their favored approach will be hard to pull off in physically distanced classrooms — and that instructors will revert to the straightforward lecture.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Most experts predict we will not have a vaccine for COVID-19 until mid-2021, more than a year from now. In the meantime, the American higher education community is going to be turned upside down, and the educational effects will last long after the virus has been brought under control. What will the impact be?…
Read More about Predicting what higher education will look like after the pandemicSurvey: Majority of college presidents likely to reopen campuses this fall
INSIDE HIGHER ED — More than half of college presidents (53 percent) said it was “very likely” their institutions would resume in-person classes this fall, and another 31 percent said it was “somewhat likely,” according to a survey of 310 presidents conducted by the American Council on Education. Presidents at public two-year colleges were less likely (38 percent) than presidents of…
Read More about Survey: Majority of college presidents likely to reopen campuses this fallUC Irvine Law Graduate Tax Program to offer online courses and in-person activities in the fall
UCI LAW — The Graduate Tax Program at the University of California, Irvine School of Law (the Program) announced today its plans for the Fall 2020 semester. In light of the ongoing global public health situation, the Program will offer all of its fall semester courses on an online basis, which will feature synchronous and asynchronous elements, and its faculty…
Read More about UC Irvine Law Graduate Tax Program to offer online courses and in-person activities in the fallUIC John Marshall Law launches Admitted Students Summer Excel Program
UIC JOHN MARSHALL LAW — Starting May 27, UIC John Marshall Law School in Chicago will debut its Admitted Students Summer Excel Program. This six-part virtual program will allow newly admitted students to join their future classmates and faculty, upper-level students and alumni to learn more about law school and the legal profession.
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