Many students are still unable to acquire a STEM degree because the pipeline from high school to a degree in STEM remains inequitable and inaccessible. A National Science Board report found that high school science and math performance is not equally distributed across the country, with vast differences in performance based on race, ethnicity and…
The scope and scale of accounts receivables in higher education have never been larger. While manual processes for tracking and following up with student debt might have been sufficient in the past, institutions enroll potentially hundreds of thousands of students and manage millions of dollars in past-due accounts today. Every institution needs a stronger fiscal…
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 1, 2019 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Nearly all dedicated NPR listeners have had the experience of sitting in their car with the radio on after arriving at their destination simply because they could not tear themselves away from a fascinating segment. By contrast, most…
During his time at the Toyota Motor Company, Taiichi Ohno developed a tool for root cause analysis, the technique we know as the five whys. According to Ohno (1988), “By asking why five times and answering it each time, we can get to the real cause of the problem, which is often hidden behind more…
On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) into law. This bipartisan law provides long overdue protection for people who work while pregnant and need workplace accommodations due to the physical and mental effects of pregnancy. Although there has been some protection against pregnancy discrimination in federal law since 1978,…
Legal writing is at its best when it is clear, precise, and easily accessible. Know what else that applies to? Children’s books! Ethics and compliance counsel Bunmi Emenanjo used her legal writing skills to pen a work that, unlike most emails from lawyers, has the potential to spark childlike joy and feel like home. From…
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I will not be participating in any of these boycotts. It all smacks too much of guilt by innocent association. Students should be seen as individuals. Many have striven to achieve commendable records. They have every right to be judged by their accomplishments, not…
Lawyers usually want to provide concierge legal services and complete a given project for clients from start to finish. Even though clients can be involved in some parts of the process, lawyers typically prefer to handle everything by themselves either because they do not want to show how easy some tasks are or because they…
Editor’s note: This is an installment in the “Reference Manual of Legal Tech Lists Vol. II,” an eBook set for release this summer. It’s been a very bad year for law firms. Not only were many law firms breached — and some from BigLaw — but the class action attorneys also have apparently discovered there…
Dr. Mike LeeCalifornia State University Sonoma President Dr. Mike Lee retired on Friday after he was placed on administrative leave after he agreed to protesters’ demands to involve them in university decision-making and pursue divestment from Israel. The action comes amid nationwide antiwar protests and concerns for upholding student and faculty rights to speech and…