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Keni Anthony says she鈥檚 always wanted to attend a historically Black university. 鈥淓ver since I was little, watching my auntie walk across the stage at Savannah State, I knew from that age that that would be me,鈥 she says.
Kristen Juhan crunched the numbers and found her career wasn鈥檛 adding up. She鈥檇 majored in business economics in college and was working as a certified public accountant, but it wasn鈥檛 as fulfilling as she鈥檇 hoped it would be.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is posing challenges across the board for law schools, but student affairs professionals are dealing with particular challenges as they communicate with incoming first-year students. To gain some insight into what these students should know as we approach an uncertain fall semester, I recently hosted a webinar with three student affairs professionals: Stephanie Carlos, assistant dean for student affairs at University of San Francisco School of Law; Bayrex Mart铆, assistant dean for student affairs at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law; and Ethan Rosenzweig, associate dean for enrollment management and student services at Emory University School of Law.
We live in a changing society, and technological advancements such as artificial intelligence and automation are creating challenges, but also exciting opportunities, for law schools. How are these trends shaping law schools鈥 approaches to serving their students?
The late Janet Reno, who served as attorney general under President Bill Clinton from 1993 through 2001, once remarked that the more research we conduct in the arena of equity, the clearer it becomes that we need to reach further and further back in the pipeline if we are to address barriers where they begin.
The Law School Admission Council recently awarded the top prizes in its annual Diversity Matters Awards to three law schools, two in the Southwest and one on the East Coast, that demonstrated the utmost commitment to increasing diversity in the legal profession...
One of the things I enjoy doing most is helping people along their path to becoming lawyers and leaders...
n a previous blog post, we told you about how one student started her journey into the world of law via an event sponsored by the Law School Admission Council under its Diversity Matters grant program. Today, we share more stories of students who come from diverse backgrounds, but were able to discover that a legal education was within reach for them.
Abyan Gurase knew where she wanted to go; she just didn鈥檛 know how to get there. 鈥淚 always knew I wanted to go to law school,鈥 says Gurase, who was born in Somalia and came to the United States as a refugee when she was a young child. 鈥淏ut maybe back then, I didn鈥檛 know what it meant to be a lawyer.鈥
Being the first person in your family to attend law school鈥攊n other words, a 鈥渇irst-gen鈥 student鈥攃omes with a unique set of challenges. Here, Camille deJorna shares her thoughts about first-gen students and 精东影业鈥檚 work expanding access and equity in education.
