Tag Archives: Graduate

Nearly 100,000 Unauthorized Immigrants Graduate from High School Every Year

With the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program before the courts and renewed efforts in Congress to pass DREAM Act-type legislation, the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) today released new estimates of the number of unauthorized immigrants… … Continue reading

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Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law is hiring a Land Use and Sustainable Development Law Graduate Fellow

Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law is hiring a Land Use and Sustainable Development Law Graduate Fellow. The Fellow will work part time in Pace's Land Use Law Center while working towards an LLM in Environmental Law. For more… … Continue reading

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Are Graduate PLUS Loans the best way to borrow for law school?

There is a great debate in the legal and financial aid community.  Is it a good idea to borrow money for law school?  How much is too much?  When is law school a mistake? To be clear, this analysis is … Continue reading

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Black History Month: Moses Leonard Frazier, NYLS First African American Graduate

Moses Leonard Frazier, Class of 1899, is believed to have been NYLS First African American Graduate.  In the early days of NYLS, students enrolled by signing a student registration ledger and writing certain basic information about themselves, e.g., their age … Continue reading

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High school math is apparently off-limits for graduate students

I conducted a not-at-all scientific poll on Twitter and determined that it's of debatable propriety to expect students to perform basic algebra tasks on an exam. Although 49% of respondents thought it was perfectly fine, 51% thought requiring basic algebra … Continue reading

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