Sentences with phrase «law school diversity»

In discussions about diversity and inclusion, legal industry observers often criticize law firms for their failure to keep pace with the increase in law school diversity.

He was appointed by the California State Bar to serve on its Council on Access & Fairness Committee that launched a groundbreaking community college - to university - to law school diversity pipeline program.

Not exact matches

Last year, Diversity Lab held a Women In Law Hackathon in collaboration with Stanford Law School and Bloomberg Law, in search of new, scalable inclusion ideas.

The NYU School of Law will host U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as part of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging speaker series, cosponsored by the Birnbaum Women's Leadership Network, Law Women and the Women of Color Collective.

Judge Jones is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of St. Johns University, the Board of Directors of St. Johns University School of Law, and the Board of Directors of Judicial Friends, the co-chair of the Justice Task Force, and the chairman of the Diversity Committee of the Court of Appeals.

At least three Republican senators are demanding big 11th - hour changes to the plan, including prohibiting the University of Wisconsin System from spending on diversity training, greatly raising the income eligibility limit for the statewide school - voucher program and repealing the state's remaining prevailing - wage laws within months.

«We have a major medical center and law school, and we have our own rich traditions rooted in the Carolina soil, such as being the nation's oldest public university with a strong history of diversity.»

She is helping to organize the Center for Education and Civil Rights» «Furthering Diversity in K - 12 Schools Through Student Assignment» conference, taking place June 1st at the Georgetown Law Center in Washington, D.C..

A West Coast branch of the movement has set up operations as the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at the school of law at the University of California, Berkeley.

This led him to the Ed School where he is continuing to focus on diversity, education, and the law.

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And the early charter school laws in states such as Wisconsin, Hawaii, Kansas and Rhode Island all required charter schools to take positive steps toward promoting diversity.

State charter - school laws, likewise, could set aside a certain proportion of charter - school funds — say, 25 percent — for schools that are diverse by design, using a weighted lottery to ensure that school choice promotes socioeconomic diversity.

As Connecticut nears the 20th anniversary of its charter school law, the charter community is celebrating the diversity of its schools and welcoming a nationally recognized Hispanic education reform leader...

As Connecticut nears the 20th anniversary of its charter school law, parents, students and educators came to the Capitol today to celebrate the diversity of its schools and welcome a...

Even the nation's new federal education law — the reauthorized ESEA or the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)-- includes language that prioritizes and could be leveraged to incentivize school diversity.

In what ways does ESSA, the reauthorization of a 1965 civil rights law, promote (or fall short in promoting) school diversity in pursuit of educational equity?

The new law calls for replicating magnet school programs that demonstrate «success in increasing student academic achievement and reducing isolation of minority groups» and «increase racial integration by taking into account socioeconomic diversity.»

When it passed in 1991, however, Minnesota's charter school law did not include automatic collective bargaining rights for teachers or emphasize diversity, leaving the door open for charters to bypass union involvement and specifically target low - income and minority groups (Kahlenberg & Potter, 2014).

State and Federal laws and regulations that allow for that diversity can also lead to some lack of clarity, especially as charter schools are concurrently governed by corporate not for profit laws and are public entities under Government and Education Codes.

According to a 2009 analysis by Erica Frankenberg and Genevieve Siegel - Hawley, 16 states had laws that permit or require charter schools to employ positive steps to bring about greater levels of racial and / or socioeconomic diversity.54

She is a graduate of the University of Virginia where she received her bachelor's degree and the University of Chicago Law School where she was a Butler, Rubin, Saltarelli, & Boyd Diversity Scholar.

Furthering Diversity in K - 12 Schools through Student Assignment Date: June 1 Host: Center for Education and Civil Rights — Penn State University Location: Washington, DC (Georgetown Law School) Main contact: Erica Frankenberg, [email protected] Description: School leaders will work alongside one another, advocates, and researchers on various aspects of designing, implementing, and sustaining student assignment plans that promote racial and socioeconomic dDiversity in K - 12 Schools through Student Assignment Date: June 1 Host: Center for Education and Civil Rights — Penn State University Location: Washington, DC (Georgetown Law School) Main contact: Erica Frankenberg, [email protected] Description: School leaders will work alongside one another, advocates, and researchers on various aspects of designing, implementing, and sustaining student assignment plans that promote racial and socioeconomic diversitydiversity.

While ESSA is a comprehensive education law, touching on a broad range of issues, magnet schools can play a crucial role in ensuring the law helps promote diversity and innovation in our nation's classrooms.

Counselling for families and students to help them integrate into the school system, socialize with the community, understand Canadian laws and value systems and encourage communication and cultural diversity.

«New York Law Journal» featured Law School Assistant Dean Jill Backer's piece in «What Is Diversity in the Legal Market?

We talk the talk, with BigLaw firms hiring «diversity coordinators» and law schools attempting to make efforts to recruit students of color, but we're failing, and we're failing hard.

In saying this I do not intend to trivialize the concerns some have with the lack of political diversity in the academy, and in particular with the lack of tolerance for a range of political views that I have told exists in some law schools.

Far more useful would be requiring law firms, organizations, corporations and law schools to have that positive obligation to promote equality, diversity and inclusion.

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She has spoken at legal conferences and top law schools about diversity as well as many other cutting - edge issues affecting the legal market.

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If you're going to say that you «don't think we actually have statistics of the racialized status of all law schools», you can not suggest, as you did in your original post, that law schools are filled with a homogenous population that isolated from the rich diversity of the Canadian population and lacking in experience dealing with diversity.

On both fronts, diversity and technology, this concentration serves to bolster the argument for a law school at Ryerson.

Alternate Hearing Committee Member, District of Columbia Board of Professional Responsibility Co-chair, Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers Young Lawyers Subcommittee, American Bar Association Member, Taxation Section, American Bar Association Member, Taxation Section, District of Columbia Bar Association Former Teaching Assistant, Legal Research and Writing, Washington University School of Law Member, Pathfinder Program, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity

Can a law school with low regulated tuition at least boast greater student diversity?

I prefer to think law schools are attempting to increase the diversity of the bar by admitting students from different backgrounds.

The messsage from Delaware's first Diversity Retreat held last Friday at Widener Law School is clear: When it comes to diversity, law firms must move towards true integration in their ranks and not just superficial changes to win corporate Diversity Retreat held last Friday at Widener Law School is clear: When it comes to diversity, law firms must move towards true integration in their ranks and not just superficial changes to win corporate busineLaw School is clear: When it comes to diversity, law firms must move towards true integration in their ranks and not just superficial changes to win corporate diversity, law firms must move towards true integration in their ranks and not just superficial changes to win corporate businelaw firms must move towards true integration in their ranks and not just superficial changes to win corporate business.

Because of this, organizations as varied as engineering schools, unions, law firms, universities and the tech industry move toward real expertise, programs and systems that weave diversity and inclusion into their organizational DNA.

Though much remains to be done to mirror the diversity profile of Canadian society, law schools have been eager to report on their progress.

As mentioned in Part I of this column, Canadian law schools have made significant strides in increasing their ethnic, cultural, and gender diversity profiles over the past decade.

Canadian law schools have certainly made concerted efforts over the past decade to ensure that their student population better reflects the ethnic, cultural, and sexual diversity of the society it will eventually serve.

But while law schools have made some significant forward strides in achieving a gender balance and diversifying the ethnic composition of their graduates, it is difficult to believe that they are making any headway on socioeconomic diversity.

In «The Educational Pipeline to Law School — Too Broken and Too Narrow to Provide Diversity,» Professor Sara Redfield of the University of New Hampshire School of Law says these factors also result in disproportionately higher levels of disengaged minority and poor children.

In fact, a report by Professor David Wilkins of Harvard Law School revealed that diversity ranked fifth out of 10 factors legal departments consider when hiring law firms — just behind (1) Results in similar cases, (2) Reputation, (3) Prior relationship and (4) Firm siLaw School revealed that diversity ranked fifth out of 10 factors legal departments consider when hiring law firms — just behind (1) Results in similar cases, (2) Reputation, (3) Prior relationship and (4) Firm silaw firms — just behind (1) Results in similar cases, (2) Reputation, (3) Prior relationship and (4) Firm size.

So every year, law firms pursue a handful of minority students at elite schools with the purpose of accomplishing a long - standing law firm diversity goal: having a firm that numerically reflects the diversity of the country, the community, and their clients.

Professor Taylor attributes this development to many factors, including the need for lower - tiered schools to maintain revenue by (wittingly or unwittingly) using diversity to help accomplish this goal, as well as elite law schools using the economic downturn as an opportunity to focus more on admitting students with the highest LSAT scores.