There is an interesting report from Project Information Literacy (based at Washington University Information School) called How College Students Manage Technology While in the Library during Crunch Time. Here is the abstract: Abstract: The paper presents findings from 560 interviews…
Posts Tagged ‘report’
Law School Transparency’s Class of 2010 Placement Data Disclosure Findings Raise Red Flag on Need for Oversight
24
Jan
From the Executive Summary of the Winter 2012 Transparency Index Report (January 2012) by Law School Transparency: As a new year unfolds and the debate about legal education reform continues, efforts in furtherance of law school transparency remain critical. While…
Findings, Promising and Disappointing, from the 2011 Law School Survey of Student Engagement
20
Jan
Quoting from the 2011 LSSSE Report: Promising Findings The vast majority of students rated their overall law school experience favorably; 83% reported that their experience in law school was good or excellent. Eighty percent of students said that they definitely…
Congressional Lawmaking: A Perspective on Secrecy and Transparency
19
Jan
From the summary of the CRS Report, Congressional Lawmaking: A Perspective On Secrecy and Transparency, (R42108) (November 30, 2011): Openness is fundamental to representative government. Yet the congressional process is replete with activities and actions that are private and not…
Legal Labor Market Remains Bleak According to BLS Stats
09
Jan
According to the latest report by BLS, professional and technical services showed job expansion running at 8.5% and the only subgroup that showed a decline was legal services (- 1.8%). On WSJ Law Blog, Joe Palazzlo reports that while the…
Chief Justice Roberts on SCOTUS Ethics Procedures
03
Jan
“Some observers have recently questioned whether the Judicial Conference’s Code of Conduct for United States Judges should apply to the Supreme Court. I would like to use my annual report this year to address that issue, as well as some…
University of Illinois Issues Report on Admission Data Manipulation
08
Nov
The University of Illinois has issued its report on the Law School’s revelation that it reported of false student profile data to the ABA and US News. A copy is available here. Principle findings from the Executive Summary show these…
Copyright Office Issues Report On Mass Digitization
04
Nov
Anyone who may have read my post on BNA content being available through Google News may have clicked on the link I gave to the specific BNA content. If so, the story Copyright Office Report Outlines Issues Surrounding Mass Digitization…
What If the Euro Fails: What Happens to Our Dependence on Multi-National Foreign-Owned Corporations for the "Oil" which Lubricates the "Law of the Land"?
28
Sep
The EU has a common currency but no unified political structure yet. For a light take on this in the context of the possible collapse of the Euro see below two recent Colbert Report segments. For something a hellva lot…
