... with my little eye
a diversity version of a brochure near Emily Sachar's office.
(thanks shutterbug!)
Yesterday Professor Loffredo (as part of the E.J.P.), the Urban Justice Center and Paul, Weiss filed a class action against State of New York and the Legislature "claiming that the State has not met its constitutional obligation to care for the needy. The State has not raised public assistance grant for almost twenty years, leaving poor people to live in bleak and precarious circumstances."
Read the complaint here
In addition to being an amazing litigator, professor and person, Professor Loffredo started, with others, the Economic Justice Project after the welfare massacre of 1996.
Just another reason to love CUNY, its professors and clinical offerings.
On Monday, the CUNY Board approved a 15% tuition hike to begin in September 2009. There are a few steps between this vote and actual implementation of the raise, which means CUNY will be lobbying Albany. Keep an eye on the comments for more details about the process.
The new tuition for instate residents could be:
Undergraduate- 4yr School- tuition may increase up to $300/semester, making full-time tuition $4,600.
Community college- increases of up to $200 per semester, making full-time tuition $3,200.
The chancellor says that "[w]e are making every effort to protect our most vulnerable students at a time of severe fiscal crisis in the city, state and nation,” which we find hard to believe given that he was the one responsible for the end of open admissions at undergraduate schools.
In addition to the hike, the law school is rumored to loose around $100 million dollars in funding.
By the American Library Association.
Despite the fact that it is glaringly obvious that the law school librarians are amazing and brilliant and that numerous glowing reviews were submitted to the I love my librarian award about them, none of our librarians won.
Bull Sh*t!
It has been reported that at yesterday’s Dean’s Coffee, Dean Anderson stated that she would consider changes to the academic standing policy that were symbolically important to students.
She qualified her statement by saying that with such a small number of students who take the bar exam, each student is one percentage point or more in our bar passage rate. As such, she would not support any change that would actually keep students at the school who would, by today’s policy, be dismissed, because it would reduce our bar passage rate. She also stated that most faculty members are coming from the same place.
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