A few years ago, the American Bar Association’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar proposed to do away with Standard 503—a long-standing policy that mandated the use of a standardized admissions test for law school applicants. For decades, this standard required schools to use a “valid and reliable test” to determine admission eligibility.

Distinguishing Your University with Teaching Excellence
Colleges and universities do many things to distinguish themselves with excellence, from chasing rankings to highlighting Fulbright research to touting their alumni. But one rarely used tool is to distinguish