PSJD Public Interest News Digest – March 15, 2019

Sam Halpert, NALP Director of Public Service Initiatives

Photo: Harris and Ewing Collection, Library of Congress

Hello there, interested public! It’s been an eventful couple of weeks.

First, the elephant in the room: Operation Varsity Blues. The articles highlighted in this week’s NALP News Digest are worth a look. I’ll just add one more here: “Asha Rangappa [former Yale Dean of Admissions] says the biggest victims of the U.S. college admissions scandal are the bright and diverse students from less privileged backgrounds who will be discouraged from applying to Ivy League schools.

In addition to that news, the Trump Administration released a budget packed with changes for the student loan world, the former student loan ombudsman of the CFPB and current head of the Student Borrower Protection Center testified to Congress, Texas attorneys are suing their state bar in objection to the bar’s diversity and immigration-related efforts, under a “forced-speech” rationale, and Civil Legal Aid is making headlines of all kinds in British Columbia, with an upcoming strike of the Association of Legal Aid Laywers leading the bill. You can find all this and more, below.

See you around,
Sam

Immigration, Refugee, and Citizenship Issues

Student Loans

Public Service Management & Hiring

Legal Technology

Access to Justice – Civil

Access to Justice – Criminal

Criminal Justice Reform