The IRCC announced in August 2024 the early termination of a public policy allowing visitors to apply for work permits from within the country, effective immediately. The policy had been introduced in August 2020 to help visitors who were unable to leave the country due to pandemic-related travel restrictions apply for a work permit…
Dr Shaun HarperRacial equity expert Dr. Shaun R. Harper will be a featured speaker during September’s Tuesdays Together National Speaker Series conversation hosted by the North Carolina Central University School of Education’s Higher Education Administration Graduate Program. Harper is a provost professor in the University of Southern California (USC) Rossier School of Education and the…
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on March 1, 2022 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! Online classes most often begin with an “introduce yourself” discussion forum for students to get comfortable working with peers in discussions and other activities. Most follow the standard model of…
Responsibilities and risks – acting under an Enduring Power of Attorney “An Enduring Power of Attorney ensures your decisions are respected, even when you can no longer voice them yourself.” As individuals, we make many decisions each day. Decisions about how we spend our money and how we manage what we have, simple decisions and…
(Photo by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Donald Trump will not be testifying at his false business records case in New York this week. His lawyers prevailed upon him not to take the stand and subject himself to questioning under oath about the putative sexual encounter with Stormy Daniels in 2006; the negotiation to…
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, a fierce champion for higher education, died on Saturday at the age of 74, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Jackson Lee represented the 18th Congressional District of Texas and served nearly 30 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. Her legislative initiatives included the Sentencing Reform Act,…
“Because most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time and more tranquility. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’” ~ Marcus Aurelius Summer is a great time to reflect on the last academic year. As you do, consider, for a moment, all the…
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The Social Penal Code of 2010 has been modified many times during the last decade, but after a major evaluation in 2017 by the Advisory Council of Social Penal Law and a first draft legislative project at…
In major election years, political campaigns are at the top of everyone’s minds. Your organization’s supporters receive political advertisements and donation appeals alongside those from your nonprofit, and donors may even wonder where your organization stands on key election issues. While 501(c)(3) nonprofits are prohibited from participating in or supporting specific political campaigns, that doesn’t mean you…
Last week, the South Carolina Supreme Court gave the green light for the state to carry out executions using the electric chair, the firing squad, or lethal injection. But it did not gild the lily about any of them Justice John Few, writing for a majority of the five-member court, put it this way. “The…