For at least the past seven years I’ve been actively encouraging nonprofits of all stripes to prioritize beginning or ramping up their monthly giving program. Not a lot of nonprofits were really leaning into this then. But, as much sense as it made then, it makes even more sense now. So, I’m…
Anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation passed in states like Texas and Florida is tied to a national trend of trying to make LGBTQ+ people and people of color invisible and more easily discriminated against, says Imani Rupert-Gordon, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Imani Rupert-Gordon“All students deserve to have places of support on…
Dr. Said Sewell has been named to lead Morris College, an historically Black college in the City of Sumter, South Carolina. He will become the college’s 11th president, succeeding Dr. Leroy Staggers. Dr. Said Sewell“I am humbled to stand on the shoulders of the predecessors who have gone before me,” said Sewell, who assumes the…
We, the undersigned, strongly support California State Senate Bill 1348: Black-Serving Institution Program, which would create California’s first Minority Serving Institutional designation. Senator Steven Bradford, 35th California State Senate District, authored this legislation. This designation, called a Black-Serving Institution (BSI), would recognize institutions that have enrollment and a demonstrated commitment to serving Black students. Dr….
(Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty) You Can’t Elect Obama…But What If?…: Mark Herrmann gets constitutional on Biden’s potential running mate. Will The Next Big Baby Reindeer Sighting Be On Netflix Or In Court?: Read the deets on the $170M defamation lawsuit. Where Are The Happenings?: Is your city on the biggest Biglaw presence list? Which Entertainment…
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Education on Monday issued findings saying the University of Michigan and the City University of New York system each mishandled discrimination complaints leveled amid heightened campus tensions over the Israel-Hamas war. …
The U.S. Supreme Court sided with the FDA on Thursday morning, unanimously ruling to uphold access to the abortion pill mifepristone. The case’s plaintiff — the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, an anti-abortion physician group — had been challenging mifepristone access ever since the drug was approved by the FDA nearly 25 years ago. The long-awaited…
This week marks 12 years since the Obama administration established the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program in June 2012. But time and continued high levels of migration have hardened U.S. migrant policies. Joe BidenThe program temporarily delayed the deportation of people without documentation who came to the U.S. as children; it also gave…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Alverno College’s governing board declared financial exigency and unveiled a plan to cut 14 undergraduate majors and two graduate programs from its academic portfolio, according to an announcement Friday. With the program cuts, the Milwaukee-based…
Moments after the soul-crushing pressure of 1L year culminates in a series of inscrutable issue spotters, students throw themselves into another crucible in a bid to get themselves onto law review. Spending your first weekend of freedom scouring the Bluebook isn’t fun, but law review membership delivers an enduring resume boost, so what are you…