The AALL Executive Board is meeting today in Portland for its final gathering of the 2024–2025 leadership year. Thank you to AALL President Cornell H. Winston for your thoughtful leadership and dedicated service this past year! #AALL25
“Parents of HBCU students are also more likely to take on loans to support their kids, on average. With payments resuming amid high prices and mortgage rates, entire families are forced to cut back.”
“The nation’s more than 100 HBCUs …serve more low-income and first-generation students than traditional schools and aim to help close the wealth gap between Black households and their White counterparts.”
Dr. Bertrand Ramcharan the former Acting UNHCHR providing a number of examples from his career applying international law in pursuit of the UN mission (e.g., Argentina, Canada).
“…We recognize that some state or other will always have an interest in carving out a new exception to the application of IHL’s protections to suit an immediate policy objective.” https://t.co/OblYzuGIxD
Greg Abbott has imitated a hostile takeover of the local school district in Houston, TX — taking control away from the local school board so that it’s now run by the state.
Parent and activist Lauren Ashley read the superintendent for FILTH
@jallison02140 @theFordon I don’t know whether it’s administrators or HR that are to blame, but I’ve seen “senior” added to librarian and staff titles at my current university. Another university automatically adds “senior” after a certain number of years. I’m sorry you didn’t have that option.
I’ll never forget a wealthy friend had a team of professionals helping them get into the school of their choice: personal statement coach, application strategist, standardized test tutor — and a life free of adult stresses. How could they not get in?
Students from families in the 1% were 34% more likely to be admitted to elite colleges than the average applicant with the same SAT or ACT score, and those from the top 0.1% were more than twice as likely to get in, a new study shows. https://t.co/rPSKqruoyK
I LITERALLY stopped working on my memo so I could read this indictment.
I am on page 24 and JESUS LUPITA NYONG'O CHRIST.
HOW this man still has the capacity to shock me after everything that's happened, i'll never know.
but I am sitting here *STUNNED*.
@Prof_Bruckner Neighborhood listserv/Facebook groups/co-workers for local doctors and from there I see which ones meet my criteria (e.g., take my insurance, philosophy, training). Same names will often come up, which is a good sign.