Activism is hardly optional in today’s world. I feel the calling in my bones. My family is deeply Jewish, with both Sephardic and Ashkenazic roots, and taught me the core lessons of tikkun olam (repair the world), tzedakah (create justice), g’milut chasadim (engage in loving kindness), pikuach nefesh (life matters), and ometz lev (courage). These values anchored my identity even…
Home Daily News 9th Circuit allows 2 transgender girls to… LGBTQ Legal Issues 9th Circuit allows 2 transgender girls to play on sports teams that align with their gender identity By Debra Cassens Weiss September 12, 2024, 11:07 am CDT A federal appeals court on Monday ruled that two transgender girls in Arizona should be…
Introduction Currently, there are over 200 million students enrolled in higher education worldwide; by 2030, that number is predicted to soar by an additional 40 percent. How do we guarantee that these institutions maintain the highest caliber during such a surge? At this moment, accreditation enters the picture and serves as an essential stage in…
(Photo by Yuki Iwamura-Pool/Getty Images) This morning, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg signaled in a letter to Justice Juan Merchan that the state does not object to a delay in sentencing for Donald Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up the 2016 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. The letter was…
One of the great songs in the classic musical The Sound of Music was framed by a lyric sung by the head of an abbey about a nun who did things her own way: “How do you solve a problem like Maria?” As Judge Juan Merchan contemplates the upcoming sentencing of the leader of the…
Dr. Musa ElbulokMusa Elbulok has been appointed acting assistant vice president of institutional effectiveness and strategic planning in the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Analytics at Borough of Manhattan Community College. Elbulok holds a bachelor’s degree in business management and finance and a master’s in experimental psychology from Brooklyn College as well as a Ph.D….
When people in your community are hungry, you look for any opportunity to be more efficient so you can spend more time getting food to those who need it. But without the right systems in place, administrative tasks like pulling grant reporting can be time-intensive and error-prone, taking away from time you could be using…
Victor Thorne is a rising junior at Grinnell College and a FIRE Summer Intern. In recent years, the transgender community has gained a reputation for championing cancel culture. Unfortunately, this is largely true. In FIRE’s 2024 College Free Speech Rankings, a sample of 454 students who identified as nonbinary overwhelmingly reported support for illiberal protest tactics. (The survey…
Dive Brief: Two Michigan institutions — Oakland University and Western Michigan University — could face potential faculty strikes as negotiations over salaries, workloads and other issues drag on. A Sept. 1 bargaining session with Oakland University administration ended without a contract, according to the institution’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Negotiating teams…
Home Daily News $20M for top rainmaking lawyers? Kirkland’s… Lawyer Pay $20M for top rainmaking lawyers? Kirkland’s poaching started a trend By Debra Cassens Weiss July 2, 2024, 10:18 am CDT Eight-figure pay packages and bidding wars for lawyers are increasingly common in BigLaw. (Image from Shutterstock) Eight-figure pay packages and bidding wars for lawyers…