Monday, November 29, 1999
MSU: Health-care law study
Some students and faculty at Michigan State University-Detroit College of Law want to add health-care law as a concentration. Health-care law is considered one of the fastest growing areas of the legal profession and the discussions to establish a specialization track at MSU have been simmering for about two years. Several proposals include inviting local attorneys and health-care professionals to speak to law students to make up for the limited personnel resources at the law school. The school already has two concentrations, taxation law and international and comparative law.

Ohio State unveils diversity plan
Ohio State University recently announced a plan to increase diversity on its Columbus campus. The plan calls for key university administrators to define goals, strategies and measurements that would promote and enhance diversity. Two of the main goals of the institution’s plan are to increase the number of women and minorities in top university positions and to improve recruitment and retention numbers of minority undergraduate students.

Oregon State GTAs unionize
Oregon State University recently became the 27th institution in the United States with collective-bargaining rights for graduate teaching assistants. Approximately 64 percent of the graduate students who voted in a recent school election supported unionization.
--Matthew Winston

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