Posts by jacquelinelipton

Having never been a dean or a development officer, I've never been confronted with questions about donors offering gifts with questionable conditions attached or grants being offered by government departments…

If anyone is trying to fit in some summer reading in a last desperate bid to convince themselves that the fall semester is not imminently upon us, I would recommend…

As it has become my tradition to use this blog as a therapy center to share my "law school anxiety dreams," here's my anxiety state about starting the new semester. …

I just returned from the SEALS conference which was great and I wish I could have stayed longer.  And I wanted to share this sign from the conference hotel.  I…

I've just been reading through the ABA's recent report:  "After Tenure:  Post-Tenure Law Professors in the United States" (Mertz, Tung, Barnes, Njogu, Heiler and Martin).  This is the first in…

A while back I blogged about the differences between browsing real life paper books in bookstores and browsing for good reads on e-readers.  With the recent announcement of the demise…

I'm taking a course online at the moment which is in the standard format of other online courses I've taken in the past - weekly assignments, discussion board for class…

While having another conversation about law school website design with a colleague, the discussion meandered into those uncomfortably posed photographs we all grin and bear for the purpose of our…

I attended a seminar today at which one of the speakers explained that typically university endowments contain a significantly greater percentage of restricted gifts than unrestricted gifts.  In other words,…

While cleaning up some of my son's Star Wars paraphernalia over the weekend, my husband pointed out a typo in a book referring to the history between Obi-Wan and Anakin…