Seton Hall University (SHU) is a private Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States.Seton Hall consists of 11 schools and colleges, with an undergraduate enrollment of about 5,800 students and a graduate enrollment of about 4,400. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".The university is particularly known nationally for its successful men's basketball team, which has appeared in 13 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournaments and achieved national renown after making it to the final of the 1989 tournament and losing 80–79 in overtime to the Michigan Wolverines. The basketball success and increased national television exposure has led to a sharp jump in applications from potential students and attendance at games.
propose a heightened nexus requirement when licensing restrictions implicate fundamental or constitutional interests.To prevent arbitrary occupational licensing bans, courts should adopt a heightened nexus standard-rational basis with bite-when a licensing restriction turns on a past conviction.Without record-supported evidence of a present, occupationally specific risk-especially in law, medicine, and public safety, licensing restrictions should not be upheld solely on the generic basis of a criminal conviction. II. History and Legal FrameworkThe 1970's marked the beginning of mass incarceration. 8 The promotion of tough on crime policies and the war on drugs by the Nixon Administration led to a sharp increase in incarceration rates. 9 In 1970, the prison population in the United States was approximately 196,429 10 .By 1985, the prison population had more than doubled to approximately 502,507. 11In 2009, the prison population had reached at 1,615,487. 12Currently, the U.S. prison population is approximately 2 million, held across 1,566 state prisons, 98 federal prisons, 3,116 local jails 1,277 juvenile correctional facilities, 133 immigration detention facilities, 80 Indian country jails, and military prisons. 13This costs taxpayers approximately $182 billion each year. 148 https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/mass-incarceration 9https://www.brennancenter.
To date, most studies exploring the effects of student loans on college enrollment have focused on persistence and completion, although increasing student mobility between institutions elevates the importance of considering a wider range of enrollment outcomes, specifically student transfer. Nearly 40
Appendix B features the RIOS Laboratory as a model of reflexive, interdisciplinary, equity-centered research in higher education. Situated within a social work program, the lab engages students and community partners in participatory inquiry grounded in social justice. Narratives from lab members illustrate how representation, cultural humility, and shared leadership contribute to inclusive research spaces. The appendix provides replicable practices for institutions aiming to cultivate ethical, equity-minded academic environments.
Amidst the contraction of for-profit newspapers across the United States, nonprofit journalism has emerged as a widely endorsed alternative for sustaining local news. Drawing on 11 semi-structured interviews with nonprofit news leaders in Pennsylvania, we examined how people working in the nonprofit news sector envision its role in addressing the journalism crisis and rebuilding local journalism. Based on a thematic analysis of these interviews, we identified two distinct visions animating nonprofit news in Pennsylvania: the restorationist vision of nonprofit journalism, a more conservative approach centered on filling market gaps and restoring newsrooms to their pre-crisis form and function, and the transformational vision of nonprofit journalism, which is oriented toward building a structural alternative to for-profit news media. Additionally, we calculated the cost of implementing each of these visions in Pennsylvania. Based on these estimates, we found that it is unlikely that either the restorationist or transformational vision can be achieved through existing revenue sources. We conclude that if nonprofit journalism is to move beyond a small-scale corrective, public funding will be essential to sustaining nonprofit local news at scale.
This paper explores the experiences of 11 students who participated in Seton Hall University Libraries' DataLab, a research program led by the Research Data Services (RDS) team. The RDS, composed of librarians and a data specialist, pairs students with faculty-led research projects to conduct research and build data science skills. In semi-structured interviews, the students who participated in this study reflected on the skills they gained through RDS, such as data cleaning, analysis, visualization, and presentation, and how the program influenced their interest in data-related careers. This case study illustrates how academic libraries can foster data education and develop similar initiatives to support student engagement in data-driven research.
