Dr. Todd M. AlessandriTodd M. Alessandri has been appointed dean of the College of Business at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. He served as associate dean of undergraduate education in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. Alessandri holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Connecticut College, an MBA from Boston University, and…
Kamala Harris (Photo by NOAH BERGER/AFP/Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I don’t think there’s an Am Law 200 firm that won’t have a significant cadre of attorneys, partners and associates who will organize on her behalf and fundraise. — Peter Zeughauser, founder of law firm management consulting…
The recently released “Project 2025: The Conservative Promise” paints a dystopian picture of American higher education, overrun by a “woke” ideology that supposedly threatens our nation’s very foundations. This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring…
This morning, a judge in Florida issued a scathing ruling booting conservative trollsite The Gateway Pundit out of bankruptcy. It’s the latest episode of Conservative Misadventures in the Land of Bankruptcy, and this one’s a banger. The Gateway Pundit (TGP), which is like Infowars, but spammier and lower energy, was founded in 2004 by a…
Native American representation in the financial industry is critical to the sovereignty of tribes and their continued economic growth. Building this diverse representation within banking will take deliberate and intentional efforts across multiple sectors, including higher education. The goal can be achieved by mirroring the systems of support that increased the proportion of Native American…
July 18, 2024 | Donor Engagement 5 Donor Engagement Solutions to Increase Participation The traditional donor pyramid has been a mainstay in the nonprofit sector for many years, but it’s not fit for modern fundraising. It undervalues non-financial contributions, leaving out the donors who aren’t quite ready to give but are prepared to learn more….
July 25, 2024 | Donor Engagement 5 Engagement Solutions for Gaining New Contacts Most social media users have encountered product or service recommendations from influencers, and there’s a good reason this strategy works. Although influencers are often incentivized by the companies they promote, they aren’t employees—they’re independent voices who choose partnerships based on their personal…
In reporting yesterday on the record-setting $900 million investment in law practice management company Clio, I included a list of the 10 largest previous investments in legal tech. It did not take long for me to learn that the list was incomplete. So I set about trying to come up with a more accurate list….
Campaigns to manufacture outrage have long been popular, but we’re starting to see them ramp up targeting law schools. Stephen Miller earned a couple minutes of fame for suing on behalf of hypothetical white males discriminated against by NYU’s Law Review. But this isn’t just an east coast anti-diversity campaign — Northwestern was recently hit…
Cultural intelligence can be defined as a particular framework of intercultural skills – unlike intercultural competencies it’s more of a structured practice, says the director of Executive Programs at The Center for Leadership and Cultural Intelligence at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore – a department that was a spearhead of the idea. “The idea behind…