Dr. Betty H. Stewart has been appointed executive vice president and provost at Hampton University, effective July 1. Dr. Betty H. Stewart“I hope to cultivate a culture of care and support within our university community, advocating for the success and happiness of students, faculty, and staff alike,” said Stewart. Stewart said her goal is to…
Since the Supreme Court transformed the 14th Amendment into a bludgeoning tool for affirmative action programs with SFFA v. Harvard, programs intent on fostering diversity have a bigger worry on their hands: Fostering getting their asses sued. In a letter to the American Bar Association, 21 attorneys general got that message across. And while they…
A new study finds that colleges and universities are responding to changing labor market needs. Dr. Kevin Stange“Skills, Majors, and Jobs: Does Higher Education Respond?” is the most recent study by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and part of a multiyear research project led by Dr. Kevin Stange, co-director of the University of…
With the coming release of “Happy Gilmore 2” on Netflix, it’s important that we not forget the past — like what Happy Gilmore got into in the first movie: “doing the bull dance, feeling the flow, working it.” But how can you get into a similar flow state as a lawyer — avoiding mistakes, working…
Arizona State University, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Northeastern University, and UC San Diego will each receive the funding over four years to establish new study abroad programs, as part of CIEE’s Pledge to Lead Change in Study Abroad. The initiative seeks to create international exchange programs that will advance institutional goals while improving student…
(Photo by Curtis Means-Pool/Getty Images) Donald Trump is now a convicted felon and everyone wants to know why his attorneys phoned in the defense. They… don’t have good answers. At all. Continuing the Trump beat, Judge Aileen Cannon continued to display a delicate mix of cynical obstinance and outright incompetence, slow-playing a motion to keep…
The UK’s Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has referred Nicholas Williams, a former Freshfields partner, to its Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal in the wake of allegations of inappropriate conduct that took place while he still worked at the firm, in December 2017. Law.com International has additional details: In its decision, announced on Monday, the SRA said that…
Most recently, Open AI introduced chat GPT, a form of generative AI – an LLM – that generates texts and images based on user queries and requests. The days following the launch of Open AI’s Chat GPT were fraught with uncertainty as pundits, tech experts, and even novices deliberated on the implications of Chat GPT…
On the heels of the Alabama debacle — where the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that fertility clinics could be liable for the wrongful death of a minor child in the case of the destruction of a cryopreserved embryo — a lot has happened. Just weeks after the decision, Alabama rushed to enact emergency legislation giving blanket immunity…
UPDATED (June 4, 2024): Victory! On May 28, FIRE followed up its letter to the Florida Department of Education with a public comment concerning its proposed library media training document, which misinterpreted state law governing school library materials. The following day, before approving the training document, the DOE amended the inaccurate slide flagged by FIRE….