SCOTUS NEWS By Amy Howe on Jun 24, 2024 at 10:29 am The justices added seven cases to the 2024-25 docket on Monday. (Katie Barlow) The Supreme Court on Monday added seven new cases to its merits docket for the 2024-25 term, including a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. (That case…
For Generation Z, student success looks drastically different than it did with previous generations. Workforce readiness has been a buzzword in higher ed over the last year—and rightfully so. A Harvard University study recently found that 85 percent of entry-level job success is tied to a candidate’s soft skills.1 In your own classroom, start by…
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(Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images) A significant due process issue with Pauline Newman’s functional impeachment was that the members of her court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, acted as the judge, jury, and executioner when they cited the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act as cause to remove…
26 April 2024 Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. RETIREMENT PLAN UPDATES Plan Fiduciaries Face Lawsuits Over Pension Risk Transfers with Athene In March 2024, three class action lawsuits were filed by former plan participants against plan fiduciaries in…
As international recruiters, I think we’re all still recovering from a bit of a shock to the system when recruitment conditions took a turn for the worse this January intake following the boom in demand for the UK which we had experienced since 2019/20. When there’s so much that is out of our hands –…
In late 2022, I moved from being UK university staff to start up my own small agency. People never tire of saying that I’ve moved to the ‘Dark Side’ and somehow I never tire of that joke either. But the process of building my agency has taught me a lot and my perspectives have definitely…
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on September 30, 2019 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! It is often said that much, if not most, of communication comes not in what we say but in how we say it. We might say something that…
When it comes to access to justice, it has long been estimated that low-income Americans did not receive any or enough legal help for over 90% of their civil legal problems, according to a 2022 report from the Legal Services Corp. Maybe they can’t afford a lawyer. Or they don’t think that they need one….
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on November 25, 2019 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! When students learn there will be group work in a course, they often let up a collective groan. Group work tends to leave a bad taste in students’ mouths…