Tag: Law: Page 81

Students

School: What is it Good for?

The nature and purpose behind the American education system are not always consistent with the methods of teaching nor the outcome.

April 5, 2015

Asian American Pacific Islander

Happy Anniversary!

Please join the staff in congratulating Operations Assistant Azeb Kelati on her eighth anniversary as an employee of Diverse.

April 2, 2015

Sports

NCAA President Troubled by Indiana’s New Law

NCAA president Mark Emmert, whose organization is based in Indianapolis and will showcase one of its signature sporting events there this weekend, said Monday that a new Indiana law that could allow businesses to discriminate against gays and lesbians might jeopardize the NCAA’s relationship with the state.

March 30, 2015

Students

U.Va. Board Considers Tuition Hike; Vote Expected This Week

Students would pay more to attend the University of Virginia if a proposed tuition increase is approved.

March 24, 2015

Asian American Pacific Islander

Calif. Court Mulls Reversal of Century-old Racist Ruling

The California Supreme Court is mulling whether to reverse a 125-year-old decision to deny a Chinese immigrant’s application to practice law in the state.

March 16, 2015

Students

American Flag Ban on College Campus Draws Lawmakers’ Rebuke

California GOP lawmakers are inserting themselves into a heated college campus debate over the right to display the American flag.

March 9, 2015

Sports

Testimony Complete in Suit from Former Alabama State Athletic Director

Testimony is complete in the dispute between Alabama State University and its former athletics director Stacy Danley.

March 1, 2015

Faculty & Staff

CRISTINA M. RODRIGUEZ

Cristina M. Rodriguez was named the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She was a professor of law at Yale. Rodriguez earned a bachelor’s and a juris doctor from Yale. She also earned a master’s from Oxford University.

March 1, 2015

African-American

The Lunar New Year Starts and the Day of Remembrance Never Ends

Special times as communities celebrate and commemorate.

February 23, 2015

Faculty & Staff

American History is not Black History; Black History is not America’s

The argument that ‘Black history is American history’ is naïve to the point of insipidity.

February 19, 2015

Home

UMass Bans Iranians from Some Engineering, Science Programs

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst has banned Iranian nationals from admission to certain graduate programs in a move that school officials say aligns its policy with U.S. sanctions against Iran.

February 16, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Report: University of Texas President OK’d Applicants Over Objections

A “select handful” of University of Texas applicants are approved each year at the direction of the school president over the objections of the admissions office, a longtime practice that has grown in recent years, according to details of an investigation commissioned by the school’s Board of Regents and released Thursday.

February 12, 2015