Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Colleges within the University of North Carolina System have eliminated 59 positions related to diversity, equity and inclusion following a May directive from the network’s governing board to end DEI efforts. The system also realigned…
The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center has released the 2024 High School Benchmarks report, which shows small improvements in college enrollment and persistence in public high school graduates. Data showed no change between 2022 and 2023 high school graduates when it came to immediately enrolling in college, but there was an increase of 3.2 percentage…
I am thrilled to announce the availability of a new publication, Driver’s License Revocations, Restorations, and Limited Driving Privileges in North Carolina. This is the first School of Government publication that combines information on triggering events and convictions that lead to the revocation of a person’s North Carolina driver’s license, how and when driving privileges may…
Even a small flag can unfurl a world of meaning. Just ask immigrants being sworn in as U.S. citizens or the students currently waving Israeli and Palestinian flags on campuses across the country. But in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Franklin & Marshall College wants students to put away their flags — or else. In its new Time, Place &…
On Oct. 17 and 18, 2024, two of the legal industry’s leading experts on knowledge management and innovation, Patrick DiDomenico, founder and CEO of InspireKM Consulting, and Joshua Fireman, president of Fireman & Company, which is owned by Epiq, the global provider of technology-enabled legal services, will present the second-annual KM&I for Legal Conference in…
Meridith Randall has deftly stabilized Golden West College (GWC) and moved it toward its future. When Randall’s presidency was made permanent in January, she had been serving as interim president for nine months. Assuming the position when the previous president resigned, she knew everyone was looking to her to bring stability to the community college….
That was Justice Hugo Black’s constitutional creed, absolutely! It was a creed born in the cauldron of the words of the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law” [emphasis added]. For the Alabama jurist, “no” meant “no.” In meaningful part, textual literalism was his interpretive touchstone. (Never mind that for Black and his textualist descendants, “Congress” also means…
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Dr. David M. JohnsonThe reach, scope, and importance of the California Community College (CCC) System cannot be overstated. As the largest system of higher education in the nation, it comprises 90,000 employees, 73 districts, 116 colleges, and nearly two million students. The 2022 report, The Economic Value of the California Community College System, noted that…
BOOK REVIEW By Amy Howe on Sep 12, 2024 at 3:39 pm Jackson delivers remarks at an event celebrating her confirmation to the Supreme Court in April 2022. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz via Wikimedia Commons) At her swearing-in ceremony to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2013, Ketanji…