What do you like most about your job? I love talking to academics – both professors and students – from all over the world and finding out about our shared experiences. It’s always so interesting to find out that despite our different contexts, we all encounter similar struggles when it comes to the internationalisation of…
Home Daily News Law firms had strong financial performance… Law Firms Law firms had strong financial performance in first half of 2024, survey says By Debra Cassens Weiss August 26, 2024, 12:39 pm CDT Another survey shows an 11.4% year-over-year increase in law firm revenue for the first half of 2024, a percentage that is…
Dive Brief: The University of Minnesota would make budget cuts and tuition hikes as well as academic investments amid continued inflation driving up expenses, under a fiscal 2025 budget proposed last week by Interim President Jeff Ettinger. The plan cites a 3.3% cost increase, with expenses reaching $5 billion. Even with the inflation, the university…
Dr. Christopher B. Davis has been named the 14th president of LeMoyne-Owen College. Dr. Christopher B. Davis“I’m elated, I’m excited, I’m overjoyed about this tremendous opportunity,” said Davis. “I’m looking forward to joining our faculty, our staff, our students, our alum, our trustees, our well-wishers as we continue doing the great work that we have…
Depression in the legal profession is widespread, with far-reaching impacts. For attorneys struggling with lawyer depression, the illness can have devastating personal and professional repercussions—but it also affects clients, partners, staff, and business. Depression affects a significant portion of the general population, with 8.3% of all adults in the United States—21 million adults—having suffered a…
Home Daily News 5th Circuit rules for prisoner allowed to… Eighth Amendment 5th Circuit rules for prisoner allowed to sleep no more than 3.5 hours per night By Debra Cassens Weiss March 26, 2024, 3:10 pm CDT A sleep-deprived prisoner can show that his treatment constituted cruel and unusual punishment without proving that his health…
Ashley OwensAshley Owens has been appointed interim Title IX coordinator at Pennsylvania State University. She serves as director of student accountability and conflict response on Penn State’s Altoona campus. Owens holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Dayton in Ohio and a juris doctorate from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. #ASHLEY #OWENS…
Performance assessment is an increasingly common assessment method that offers significant advantages over traditional high-stakes testing. What is a performance assessment? Performance assessment is a summative assessment tool that is used as a substitute for high-stakes testing. It’s intended to focus more on practical or applied skills—more “do you know how to use your knowledge?”…
(Photo by Demetrius Freeman-Pool/Getty Images) It was barely a year ago that Senator Lindsey Graham seemed to acknowledge that something needed to be done about the ethics scandals that plague the Supreme Court. In the interceding time, those scandals have only gotten worse, so you might think he’d respond with horror at the corruption and…
Spring enrollment numbers are looking up across the postsecondary sector, according to the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, which collects data from almost all U.S. institutions. Their new report, “Current Term Enrollment Estimates Spring 2024,” shows that undergraduate enrollment grew 2.5% since spring 2023, which means over 359,000 more students enrolled…