Ahead of the Curve: A Pitch to Future JDs | The Law School Hustle | This Is How You Pass the Bar
Can a new online learning program reach minority undergraduates interested in law school? Plus, we examine how Florida International University manages to dominate the Sunshine State's bar exam.
April 23, 2018 at 09:00 PM
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Welcome back to Ahead of the Curve . I'm Karen Sloan , legal education editor at Law.com, and I'll be your host for this weekly look at innovation and notable developments in legal education. Today I'm focused on Mitchell Hamline School of Law's new “Gateway to Legal Education” program, which aims to use online learning to reach minority undergraduates interested in law school. I'm also checking in with Florida International University College of Law and how it manages to dominate the Sunshine State's bar exam. Finally, we'll hear from Southern University Law Center Chancellor John Pierre on the how school is finding innovate ways to generate revenue. Please share your thoughts and feedback with me at [email protected] or on Twitter: @KarenSloanNLJ.
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|A Gateway to Law School
Mitchell Hamline School of Law Mitchell Hamline dean Mark Gordon “Gateway to Legal Education”
- Undergraduates at partner schools can take a variety of online law classes taught and graded by Mitchell Hamline professors. There will be no cost to the partner colleges, but students would pay tuition for any academic credits they receive toward their undergraduate degrees.
- Those undergraduates would be matched up with a Mitchell Hamline student mentor, as well as a practitioner mentor from the Twin Cities.
- Over the summer, the undergrads would come to Mitchell Hamline for a week or 10 days, funded by the law school, to meet attorneys and judges and to attend another class.
- Participants would also be eligible for a free or reduced cost online LSAT test prep course from Kaplan.
secured more than $160,000 Delaware State University 3M General Counsel Ivan Fong Kevin Warren, the chief operating officer of the Minnesota Vikings —My thoughts:
|Do The [Law School] Hustle
Van McCoy's disco earworm by John Pierre, chancellor of Southern University Law Center Florida International College of Law's Summit on the Future of Legal Education last week's briefing alternative ways to fund law school doomsday scenario Congress caps graduate student loans Baton Rouge —The takeaway:
Yale Law School professor James Forman Jr. winning a Pulitzer Prize |
FIU's Bar Exam Secret Sauce
aren't looking too good Florida International University College of Law 85 percent of its first-time takers passing No. 101 this year Samantha Joseph FIU law dean Tawiah Ansah attributed the school's high pass rates with assistant dean Louis Schulze Jr this story former dean Alex Acosta's “Director of Bar Preparation Raul Ruiz —My take:
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Extra Credit Reading
➤ Alexander Hamilton receive an honorary degree Albany Law School ➤ Columbia Law School to elect a minority student South Texas College of Law professor Josh Blackman talks about being heckled City University of New York School of Law
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