Morning Docket: 09.25.24

* Sam Bankman-Fried and Diddy apparently share a common space. It’s like an old episode of Real World except with more crime. [People] * Meanwhile, Caroline Ellison gets two real years for fake money scam. [Reuters] * SEC lawyer informs defense bar that the regulator is just going to drag them into expensive and time-consuming…

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The Week In Weed: April 5, 2024 –

11 April 2024 Seyfarth Shaw LLP To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, Virginia Governor Youngkin took action on the retail market…

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How To Make Your Nonprofit’s Marketing Unforgettable

How many sentences of this introduction will you read? How long can this paragraph hold your attention? According to Treetop Therapy’s attention statistics, the human attention span is eight seconds, dropping by 25% over the past few years. Between volunteer recruitment, community partnership appeals, spreading awareness, and donation and follow-up requests, your nonprofit practically revolves around effective communications….

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Final Report on Dubious FAMU Gift Recommends Policy Changes

Florida A&M UniversityFlorida A&M UniversityThe final report is out regarding the controversial $237 million donation to Florida A&M University announced May 4, and it concludes that “senior leadership at the University were deceived by, and allowed themselves to be deceived by, the Donor — Mr. Gregory Gerami.” Mishandling of the dubious gift from Gerami and…

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The Courage to Piece Back the Broken Paradox in Higher Education: Our Inner Work Can Change the Outer World  – Faculty Focus

In my (re)reading of Parker Palmer’s The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life (1997) and its iterations, it becomes more obvious to me that Parker is a paradox savant.   “What makes a Rosa Parks?…What makes a Nelson Mandela? What makes these people is their capacity to take the inner life…

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Study Evaluates Effects of Policing Gender, Sexuality in Sports

Dr. Laura WernickHyper-surveillance and policing of sexual and gender norms with anti-LGBTQ+ language in sport marginalizes LGBTQ+ individuals, according to the study “Policing Gender and Sexuality in High School Sports.” The study analyzes how gender, sexual orientation, and race play an intersecting role in the development of youth self-esteem and how “toxic masculinity” interacts with those identities….

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After more silence from NYU, FIRE files accreditor complaint

When your free speech rights are violated, FIRE doesn’t back down.  After several missives and a final warning to the university, FIRE is filing an accreditor complaint against New York University for flagrantly violating the expressive rights of its students and faculty. NYU has had multiple chances to defend its record, either publicly or privately, but…

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