Efforts during the past 10 years to diversify America's law schools by enrolling more African-American students have failed because those responsible for law school admissions and accreditation practices have created a de facto and racially discriminatory quota system that restricts African-American access to the legal profession. This article examines two obstacles that African-Americans currently face in obtaining admission to law school. The first is law school admissions practices that have a disparate impact on minority students and appear to be driven by competitive, economic motives. And the second is law school accreditation practices that have a disparate impact on minority students without valid, reliable, and objective evidence establishing that these practices have a legitim...
[...] McGurl instead turns to the cultural critic Rita Felski's understanding of shame as an emotion produced in moments of "geographic and other forms of social mobility"3 to envision the writing program as, more positively, disseminating modernism's tenets "to a range of student populations previously underrepresented in the writing profession." [...] McGurl suggests that, during periods of increased demographic access to higher education, the shame produced by crossing into new social territory plays an inevitable role in the university classroom in general and the writing workshop in particular - places where people, especially those from previously non-college-going backgrounds, find themselves trying to intuit and master a system of largely implicit rules.
The National Society of Accountants (NSA) awards over 40 scholarships annually to deserving students taking up accounting at the undergraduate level. To qualify for the NSA's scholarship program, applicants must be US or Canadian citizens enrolled at an American school with a 'B' or better grade point average. Applications must be accompanied by an appraisal form completed by a professor at the applicant's school. In lieu of this, the appraisal form may be completed by the head of the school's accounting department. Deadline for submission of applications is Mar 10, 1999.
PICPA's 112th Annual Meeting was held at Disney's BoardWalk Resort, June 21-Jun 25, 2009. Members and their guests were able to share unique experiences that only Disney can offer. The BoardWalk Resort embraces Atlantic City of the 1940s as its model. This year's attendees -- close to 150 members and guests -- had access to national CPA leaders who provided firsthand insight into what is happening in the profession. As always, the Annual Meeting was about building and maintaining professional and personal connections. On the final day, PICPA conducted its Annual Business Meeting, highlighting the year's events and electing the 2009-2010 officers.
[Camille A. Nelson] is excited about her new role at Suffolk Law School. "It is a community of engaged scholars, dedicated teachers, involved alumni, hard-working professionals and exceptional students," she said. "The institutional commitment to service and to fostering access to the legal profession is inspiring and resonates strongly with me.
I'm very pleased to announce the creation of a toll-free line dedicated to stopping unlicensed activity. For the first time, consumers will have access to a toll-free line where they may report the unlicensed practice of any profession DBPR regulates," said Secretary [Simone Marstiller]. "My top priority for the department is to improve our customer service, and the toll-free line will give consumers an increased protection against unlicensed individuals. "Due to the severe nature of the past two hurricane seasons, there is a heightened focus on unlicensed contracting. However, it is important for consumers to realize that unlicensed activity affects us all in a variety of settings," Deputy Secretary [Dennis Yecke] said. "A license is required for many professionals, including vet...
Critics claim that the flood of legislators into lobbying heightens the perception that lobbyists use personal contacts to take home big paychecks, and that taxpayers pay the price in the end. These are not the only unsavory aspects of the lobbying profession in Washington today. Corporations and interest groups seeking access to government officials at all levels have found an interesting way to make high-powered lobbyists work even harder for their money: the contingency fee. Contingency fee lobbying contracts have become surprisingly common, particularly in situations where corporations seek government contract work or appropriations for a particular program that would put money in their pockets. A ban on contingency fee lobbying is the only effective way to ensure that lobbyists wil...
Let us make one thing clear. Librarians opposed to Wi-Fi in public libraries are the strongest advocates of access to the Internet for all people, with connectivity that is faster and more secure than Wi-Fi can provide. Librarians opposed to Wi-Fi offer alternatives that are viable, legitimate, and do-able, and demonstrate that we needn't abdicate the long-held democratic values, policies and practices of our profession to provide access to the Internet that some would too easily forsake for the fool's gold of a wireless world.
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