Taxation & Estate Planning

College and University Ranking Systems
The Institute for Higher Education Policy has published a report: College and University Ranking Systems: Global Perspectives and American Challenges. Supported by Lumina Foundation for Education, this new report by the Institute for Higher Education Policy highlights the ongoing global...

MA: Higher education shouldn't take a back seat to prisons
Higher education shouldn't take a back seat to prisons By Daily Hampshire Gazette Created 09/15/2008 Sen. Stan Rosenberg is right in being outraged by how the state Legislature is not prioritizing funding for public higher education (Guest Column, Sept...

The Wall Streeting of Higher Education:
This week's Chronicle of Higher Education has several interesting articles all that focus on the influence of Wall Street on higher education....

OER Session at UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education
As part of UNESCO’s World Conference on Higher Education, UNESCO hosted a session and panel discussion on open educational resources (OER). The topic of the conference was “The New Dynamics of Higher Education and Research for Societal Change and Development,” and OER was considered an important dynamic in higher education...

Admissions and Public Higher Education in California, Texas, and Florida: The Post-Affirmative Action Era
Interesting article from the UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies: "1996 was a momentous year for higher education in the United States. In that year voters in California adopted Proposition 209, a ballot measure that amended the state constitution...

A National Strategy for Higher Education
From today’s Irish Times, I learn that a new strategy for third-level sector [is] under way (sub req’d). Seán Flynn writes [with added links]: A framework document mapping out the future of the third-level sector in the State is to be prepared by the Department of Education and the Higher Education Authority...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Department of Education Fraud
$4.25 million settlement to be paid in whistleblower lawsuit.

Racist Voicemail
Stamford Board of Education pays student $37,500 settlement after failing to protect her from racial discrimination.

Cardiovascular Systems Initiates Recall of ViperSheath
Cardiovascular Systems Initiates Voluntary Recall of ViperSheath

Wrong Bus
Greenbrier County Board of Education agrees to $15,000 negligence settlement after dropping a 5-year-old off at the wrong spot.

Orion Energy Systems, Inc.
401K / ERISA Stock Fraud

Heartland Payment Systems
Faces Class Action