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Love the lights themselves, even the stands are fine but not so much the controller. I set everything up and turned on the system. The Obey 3 controller for the simple variety of colors (using their color coded buttons) worked fine, red, green, Cyan etc... The sliders for pure red, green and blue worked fine but not much else. The chase, macro, strobe functions didn't seem to function properly and that bothered me thinking it possibly not a very quality product....so I called, asked and was given the ok to exchanged it for the Obey 40. In just a very few days the Obey 40 showed up (I had to pay for return shipping and the extra for the 40 but was happy to do so). It does far more than I need now and I can program anything...oh and all the buttons work, there is a hookup for a smoke system also... Not related to quality but for general use.... to make this whole system set up VERY EASY..... When setting up the system I installed all the lights on the stands. I then ran all the DMX and power chords in a clean manner and zip-tied them to the cross bar of the stands. I even used the braces that come with the cross bar (you will see what I mean when you buy this, nice addition to keep fittings from breaking) and now when I am done playing I just loosen the clamp for the top upright bar and all 4 lights, all the wiring etc... comes off in one piece. I hang this in my trailer, fold up the bottom of the stands and put them under the lights. Now I can set up the lights in a few minutes. I set up the stands, grab the 2 bars of lights, hook up power and a DMX cable to go to the controller on one DMX cable to go to the other light bar and I am done. The lights are so thin both sets of lights on the side of the trailer only stick out maybe 10". They are held with 2 small bungee cords and away I go. Great lights great controller (the Obey 40)ALSO the Obey 40 will mount in a rack!!!


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The staff is ok... However Dr. Dickey is prompt, knowable, nice, and efficient.
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I first went to Dr. Dickey when I was 23 and he had diagnosed my twin sister with PCOS wich limits your ability to have children. He calmly explained to her the condition, and she asked about me, and he told her that it was very likely that I shared the condition because we are twins. He later diagnosed me and I was able to have a beautiful little girl at 24 with my husband. My sister had a little boy just 6 weeks earlier with her husband. Dr. Dickey is always kind, and he has a way of making you comfortable during some of the most uncomfortable moments. I wouldn't want to see anyone else.
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Honey Kisses: This flavoring oil has a pleasantly sweet aroma that gives lip balms the comforting smell of real honey. Based on IFRA guidelines, the recommended maximum usage rate for this flavor is 1.5% in lip products.
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This honey is absolutely wonderful!! I have used it in both lip balm and melt-n-pour soap and both have turned out fabulous. Only problem - every time I walk by the counter where it is, I have to stop, uncap and smell! I really can't get enough! Thank you so much for this incredible honey frangrance!
Fabulous in my lip balms, alone or paired with sweetener. Very popular with my customers. Thank you for such wonderful products!
I bought Brambleberry's Lip Balm Base. It is very nice. When we used the Honey Kisses Flavor Oil, as described in the Soap Queen tutorial for lip balm with the base that Brambleberry sells, it tasted like nothing, if not a little like a chemical wang. The scent is barely existent and what scent it does have, doesn't smell anything like honey at all. This was a total waste of money. I will soon be asking for a refund as I truly believe that this is a bad batch. Brambleberry usually sells the best products.
While I will agree that this oil didn't smell a lot like honey, it does have a sweet smell, and I think it will work awesome in my lip balms. I haven't tasted it, so I can comment on the flavor...but there are ways to tweak the flavor of your lip balms if you choose. All in all, I love this oil, and would purchase it again!
This is one of my favorite lip balm flavor/scents. I don't think it has any flavor really, which is totally fine with me, but the smell is the greatest. We are beekeepers and make our products with honey and beeswax, so getting a good smelling honey scent really mattered to me. This one is perfect! I love it so much that I'm wondering if I can use it to scent my lotions? Please let me know!
Terah from Bramble Berry replies...Hi Valerie! I'm so glad you love our Honey Kisses Flavoring Oil! You can definitely use this as a fragrance oil in your lotion, what a great idea! I will email you personally to discuss this further.
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Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
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Provider: Elsevier
Contents: Abstracts, CME, full text, links to full text, mobile access, summaries
Access Level: Free, Open Access
Descriptions: PracticeUpdate incorporates the former OncologyStat! with other modules on Primary Care, Eye Care, Cardiology, Dermatology and Urology. This resource requires free registration and the creation of a brief user profile, which enables emailed content feeds tailored to the user's own interests. There is an editorial board for each discipline. Features for which one can opt in or out by discipline include conference coverage, editors' picks, CME alerts and breaking news. For more information on this resource, read its About information.
Keywords: cancer, cardiology, clinical trials, decision support, dermatology, drugs, evidence-based medicine, eye, healthcare policy, multidisciplinary, oncology, opthalmology, physicians, quick reference
Virtual Open Heart Surgerywebsite
Provider: Australian Broadcasting Co.
Descriptions: A simplified graphic presentation of open-heart surgery. Includes some very basic anatomical information, the pre-op steps, the main players in the OR, and monitors of brain and heart activity.
Keywords: cardiology, interactive, surgery, video
Texas Heart Institute Heart Information Centerwebsite
Provider: Texas Heart Institute
Descriptions: This website is an award-winner and has been highlighted in the Internet Scout Report. Its first focus is on patient and consumer education, but it also links to a page of physician-targeted resources and publications. For the consumer there are questionnaires designed to help the user ascertain their own cardiac health and risk behaviors; for patients, there is an extensive glossary of terms and a detailed section explaining heart conditions and surgical procedures designed to correct them.
Keywords: cardiology, consumer health, glossary of terms, heart, images
Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Educationwebsite
Provider: Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education
Descriptions: The Cleveland Clinic, certified by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, provides this website with a wide selection of (text and video) online CME units in approximately 40 medical specialties. Nursing, Dentistry and Health Care Administration are included along with medical specialties from Allergy/Immunology to Women's Health. A series of fee-based, live CME conferences is also offered.
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National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)website
Provider: National Institutes of Health
Descriptions: "The Institute plans, conducts, fosters and supports an integrated and coordinated program of basic research, clinical investigations and trials, observational studies, and demonstration and education projects." There is a wealth of information here, through links and integral content, for patients, researchers and health care professionals. Includes information on new clinical trials and provides links to individual clinical trial websites. For consumers, there is a special Health Information Network one can sign up for, which will then feed only the information of particular interest to the individual user.
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Contents: E-books, full text
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Descriptions: A collection of medical and life science e-books. Link to a quick guide and a training video from the ebrary home page. To make full use of ebrary, create a personal account. Go to ebrary's Help documentation for detailed information on setting up a personal account and on the features registration makes available. These include highlighting and annotation, creating a virtual bookshelf, linking out to other resources, copy and paste, printing up to 60 pages per session, sharing, and using RefWorks with this resource. Ebrary was added to the collection with funds donated by The Friends of the Texas Medical Center Library.
Keywords: alternative medicine, cardiology, dentistry, dermatology, internal medicine, nursing, ob/gyn, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, pathology, pediatrics, pharmacology, pharmacy, public health, surgery
Medical Product Safety Network (MEDSUN)website
Provider: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Descriptions: MEDSUN "...is an adverse event reporting program launched in 2002 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). The primary goal for MedSun is to work collaboratively with the clinical community to identify, understand, and solve problems with the use of medical devices. Over 350 health care facilities, primarily hospitals, participate in the entire MedSun network." There are MEDSUN sub-networks for various conditions and clinical settings in which medical devices are commonly used: HeartNet, HomeNet, KidNet (neonates), LabNet, SightNet and TissueNet.
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Queen Rania Foundation Partners with edX to Create First MOOC Portal for the Arab World
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan announced today the creation of Edraak, an education initiative of the Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development (QRF). Edraak, a partnership with non-profit online learning initiative edX, will be a MOOC portal for the Arab world and will bring quality education to millions of Arabic-speaking students around the globe. Her Majesty Queen Rania witnessed the historic signing of the agreement by QRF CEO Haifa Dia Al-Attia and edX president Anant Agarwal at edX's Cambridge offices.
"Using edX's technology and tapping the best talent from our region and the Arab diaspora, we're proud that we will be launching a MOOC platform for the Arab world," said Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah. "Engaging, fresh, relevant – and, most importantly, in Arabic – MOOCs on Edraak will open up a world of possibility for intellectually hungry Arab youth."
"EdX was founded on the belief that education should be freely available for everyone, like the air we breathe. We share Her Majesty Queen Rania's vision to bring opportunity to those who need it most, through education, and are honored to join her in delivering the world's best and most accessible learning experiences to the Arab world," said Anant Agarwal, president of edX.
Powered by edX's open source platform, Edraak will offer Arabic translations of select courses from the 29 xConsortium partners to Arabic-speaking students at no cost. In addition, Edraak will develop its own courses in Arabic with leading Arab faculty members as well as world-renowned Arab professionals in a variety of fields.
These offerings will provide Arab students and professionals with a world-class educational experience with wide ranging courses, including courses that address contemporary issues and challenges in the Arab World through Arab perspectives.
The announcement of this Arabic-language portal follows the launch of two other global MOOC websites – XuetangX (China) and France Universite Numerique (France). Each of these portals uses Open edX, the open source platform supported by Stanford University and Google among other global partners, including the members of the xConsortium.
The Edraak initiative is an expansion of Her Majesty Queen Rania's education advocacy. Queen Rania is UNICEF's Eminent Advocate for Children. She is also a member of the United Nations Foundation (UNF) board, and a member of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's high-level advisory panel assigned to advise on the post 2015 development agenda. In Jordan, Her Majesty founded the Jordan River Foundation (JRF) dedicated to improving the livelihoods of families and communities and protecting children from abuse, as well as a number of education initiatives.
About The Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development (QRF)
QRF was established to support the 8 different education and development institutions that are directly affiliated with Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan (HM Queen Rania). QRF works with these affiliations to help align their work with HM Queen Rania's vision for the development and enhancement of educational services for all Jordanians. QRF supports the affiliations' efforts to effectively translate that vision into projects and initiatives, thereby strengthening their contribution, individually and collectively, to the various educational and development needs of the country, and eventually the Arab region.
About edX
EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise composed of 29 leading global institutions, the xConsortium. Founded byHarvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, edX is focused on transforming online and on-campus learning through groundbreaking methodologies, game-like experiences and cutting-edge research on an open source platform. EdX provides inspirational and transformative knowledge to students of all ages, social status, and income who form worldwide communities of learners. EdX is focused on people, not profit, and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the USA.
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Ray Hanania is the Managing Writer of the Arab Daily News online news site. He is an award winning former Chicago City Hall political reporter and columnist who covered the beat from 1976 through 1992 (Mayor Daley to Mayor Daley). Hanania loves to write about American Arabs in politics, and focuses on Arab life in America.
Palestinian, American Arab and Christian, Hanania's parents originate from Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Hanania began in journalism as an activist publishing Chicago's first English-language American Arab Newspaper "The Middle Eastern Voice" from 1975 through 1977. In 1976, he was hired by the Chicago community newspaper The Southtown Economist (Daily Southtown) and in 1985 was hired by the Chicago Sun-Times and covered Chicago City Hall for both. In 1993, he launched the "The Villager" Newspapers which covered 12 Southwest Chicagoland suburban regions.In 2004, he published "The National Arab American Times" monthly newspaper which was distributed through 12,500 Middle East ethnic food stores in 48 American States.
Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club "Peter Lisagor Awards" for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named "Best Ethnic American Columnist" by the New American Media;In 2009, he received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. Hanania has also received two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild, and in 1990 was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.
Hanania's writings have been published in newspapers around the world. Syndicated by Creators Syndicate, Hanania also writes for Al Jazeera English. Hanania has written for the Jerusalem Post, YNetNews.com, Arab News, Saudi Gazette, Newsday in New York, the Orlando Sentinel, the Houston Chronicle, The Daily Star, the News of the World, the Daily Yomimuri in Tokyo, Chicago Magazine, the Arlington Heights Daily Herald, and Aramco Magazine. His political columns are published in the Southwest News-Herald and Des Plaines Valley News, Regional News and Palos Reporter newspapers in Chicagoland. Hanania is the President/CEO of Urban Strategies Group media and public affairs consulting which has clients in Illinois, Florida, Michigan and Washington D.C.
Hanania is Palestinian Christian from prominent Bethlehem and Jerusalem families. His wife and son are Jewish and he performs standup comedy lampooning Arab-Jewish relations, advocating for peace based on non-violence, mutual recognition and Two-States.
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Coach Bill O'Brien will take over as the offensive play-calling duties Week 4 against the Titans.
Kelvin Benjamin said he's "pumped up" for Week 4 against the Falcons after not catching a pass in the Week 3 loss to the Vikings.
CSN New England's Mike Giardi reports Jimmy Garoppolo (shoulder) is "making good strides" and the "arrow is pointing in the right direction" for him to start Week 4.
Jacksonville QB Blake Bortles threw for 548 yards and four touchdowns in two 2015 meetings with Indianapolis.
Tyler Boyd caught 1-of-3 targets for 10 yards in Cincinnati's Week 4 win over the Dolphins.
C.J. Uzomah caught 4-of-5 targets for 45 yards in the Bengals' Week 4 win over the Dolphins.
Brandon LaFell caught 4-of-6 targets for 44 yards in the Bengals' Week 4 win over the Dolphins.
Dion Sims caught 1-of-2 targets for nine yards in Miami's Week 4 loss to the Bengals.


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HOUSTON - The Houston Texans told Tony Banks to avoid mistakes. He did, and they won.
Banks played an error-free game and hit tight end Billy Miller for a 20-yard touchdown pass early in the fourth quarter, helping Houston shut down the Carolina Panthers 14-10 Sunday.
Banks is the first quarterback other than David Carr to start for the second-year Texans (3-5). Carr was out with a sprained right ankle.
"I'll feel better about picking my check up this week," said Banks, who didn't take a single snap last season.
Entering Sunday, his NFL career had been marked mostly by miscues: 100 turnovers in 85 games, mostly with the Ravens and Rams. But against Carolina's vaunted defense, he was 13-of-19 for 154 yards with the one touchdown and no interceptions or fumbles.
"I've seen Tony Banks play before, and we did not take Tony Banks lightly," Panthers coach John Fox said. "I thought he had a terrific second half."
Carolina, which has lost two of three games after a 5-0 start, took a 10-7 lead on John Kasay's 23-yard field goal at the end of a third quarter in which each team had one possession.
But Banks connected with Miller for the winning points on a second-down play from the Panthers 20 with 912 minutes left. Banks' precision pass traveled between Carolina's Ricky Manning and Greg Favors, and Miller made a one-handed catch and cradled the ball as he strode 4 yards into the end zone.
Banks "had a little bit of pressure on him, and I looked late," Miller said. "It kind of stuck in my hand."
Houston 14, Carolina 10
Records: Houston is 3-5; Carolina is 6-2.
Impact: After a 5-0 start, Carolina has lost two of its last three games.
Key Stat: Houston QB Tony Banks hit Billy Miller with a 20-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter.
Already without its starting QB, Houston lost rookie tailback Domanick Davis to a strained chest in the second half after a 74-yard day. Davis was trying to become the first player to run for 100 yards in each of his first three NFL starts.
Stacey Mack replaced him in the Texans' backfield and tied the game at 7 halfway through the third quarter with a 1-yard scoring plunge in his regular role as goal-line specialist.
After Miller's TD in the final period, Carolina moved to Houston's 31 on its next possession.
But the drive stalled when receiver Steve Smith, who earlier scored the Panthers' touchdown, kicked defensive tackle Jerry Deloach after a catch and was flagged for a 15-yard personal foul. Carolina punted and never threatened again.
"Just after the catch I started to feel pressure on my leg," Smith said. "It was getting harder and harder and I was trying to get loose, so I kicked him."
Said Fox: "Steve didn't use good judgment and hurt our football team."
The Panthers fed the Texans a steady diet of Stephen Davis on the game's opening drive, rushing him eight times for 20 yards to set up the occasional throw by Jake Delhomme. One of those passes, a 24-yarder to Smith over the middle, put Carolina up 7-0 midway through the first quarter.
Carolina's Davis, the NFC's leading rusher, finished with 153 yards on 30 carries.
"I would rather have 11 yards and a win," a somber Davis said.
Carolina 7 0 3 0 - 10
Houston 0 0 7 7 - 14
First Quarter
Car-S.Smith 24 pass from Delhomme (Kasay kick), 7:53.
Third Quarter
Hou-Mack 1 run (K.Brown kick), 6:49.
Car-FG Kasay 23, :08.
Fourth Quarter
Hou-Miller 20 pass from Banks (K.Brown kick), 9:36.
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First downs 21 14
Total Net Yards 367 267
Rushes-yards 35-174 30-118
Passing 193 149
Punt Returns 1-7 0-0
Kickoff Returns 2-39 3-58
Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-0
Comp-Att-Int 13-23-1 13-19-0
Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 2-5
Punts 3-49.0 3-48.0
Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0
Penalties-Yards 4-40 7-55
Time of Possession 29:45 30:15
RUSHING-Carolina, S.Davis 30-153, Foster 3-13, S.Smith 1-6, Delhomme 1-2. Houston, D. Davis 12-74, Mack 15-26, Banks 2-12, Hollings 1-6.
PASSING-Carolina, Delhomme 13-23-1-193. Houston, Banks 13-19-0-154
RECEIVING-Carolina, S.Smith 5-88, Mangum 2-47, Muhammad 2-29, Hoover 1-10, Goings 1-9, Wiggins 1-6, Foster 1-4. Houston, Johnson 4-64, Miller 4-58, Gaffney 3-30, Norris 1-5, D.Davis 1-(minus 3).
MISSED FIELD GOALS-None.
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You'll be absolutely wowed by the beautiful fall foliage on this tour -- an experience not to be missed! Have your camera ready as you tour Boston's north and west sides, as these areas tend to display the most stunning colors.
January 2016
Very very nice.. great driver!!
January 2016
This was the most beautiful scenery. The driver and tour guide was very knowledgeable and entertaining. I highly recommend this tour.
December 2015
Wonderful experience. He was friendly and knowledge. Found a great place to view even though the season was delayed due to the warm summer there. Thanks for great memories.
November 2015
Memorable day, beautiful vivid color's. Driver shared lot's of interesting titbit's.
November 2015
The trip fulfilled our expectations. We were also lucky with the foliage. The tour guide had interesting things to say, and was helpful. The lunch wasn't great, but at a nice place nevertheless.
November 2015
We have a very pleasant trip and enjoyed the colors. The driver/guide kept us upbeat with his humor
and added color to our journey. It was a day well-spent.
November 2015
Very enjoyable - our driver and guide, Brian, was personable, entertaining and informative - and a good driver! The pacing was nice and the stops provided an enjoyable variety of local landscapes to enjoy. The lunch stop at JP Stephens' Tavern was delightful - great food, nice atmosphere and a good value. Very nice group of people on the tour.
November 2015
Great trip. Brian, the bus driver and narrator, made the trip fantastic! Definitely wanted to make our trip outstanding..which he did! Thank you!
November 2015
Bus driver shared interesting stories. Great food at the different stops. So
Glad we went!
November 2015
What a great way to see the most fall foliage in the most convenient way. Everything ran smoothly. It was an unforgettable day!
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Exporter Dynamics Database version 2.0: What does it reveal about the trade collapse?
The recent global financial crisis was closely followed by a trade collapse. Global trade plunged by 23% in 2008-2009. Despite a rebound in 2010-2011, trade growth has been almost stagnant ever since and is predicted by the WTO in its April 7 2016 press release to remain sluggish, a grim outlook compared to the expansions in pre-crisis times (Constantinescu et al., 2015). What were the underlying micro sources of this trade collapse: were exporters' ability to participate in foreign markets or their pace of growth most hurt? Evidence from high-income countries shows that declines in the intensive margin—average exporter size—explain most of the decline in global trade, compared to the fall in the extensive margin—the number of exporters. But what about developing countries?Download and query Exporter Dynamics Database indicators
The recently released Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) version 2.0 with its indicators on both margins of trade at a micro level for 70 countries (of which 56 developing countries) can help answer this question. The EDD can be downloaded in bulk from the World Bank Microdata catalog and now it is also available for customized queries in the World Bank Databank. The EDD indicators for developing countries show that a decline in the average size of exporters was the key factor behind the decline in total exports resulting from the global financial crisis.


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The Steve Dangle Podcast - October 31, 2014 - F*** Jake
Steve Dangle
October 31 2014 03:24PM
On today's Steve Dangle Podcast, we make a team of former Leafs, analyze Habs fans' brains, and tell Jesse about luvudangler.
LGD- Ghoulumbus Boo Jackets
Adam Laskaris
October 31 2014 11:54AM
After succesfully conquering perhaps the scariest collection of NHL players to ever take the ice on Tuesday night, the Toronto Maple Leafs face a new challenge this Halloween.
The Roundup
Nation World HQ
October 31 2014 07:00AM
Halloween hacks, Henrik Sedin, Randy Carlyle, Jets fan etiquette, Oilers are hot, Flames tendies, and more in this week's Roundup.
Percy Recalled, Booth Still Hurting, Phaneuf Is Spider-Man
Justin Fisher
October 30 2014 02:13PM
It's been a relatively slow day at TLN, with the Leafs last playing on Tuesday night and not playing again until tomorrow. Still, here's some smaller headlines that dropped today...
What Would You Do Wednesday - Lupul, Kadri and Kessel
Justin Fisher
October 29 2014 07:15PM
They didn't put up any points together, but that Lupul-Kadri-Kessel line was pretty fantastic last night against the Buffalo Sabres.
It's hard to imagine a world where Phil Kessel and Tyler Bozak don't play on a line together, but maybe Coach Randy has been reading up on these newfangled WOWY stats and thinks it might be time to give Nazem Kadri a shot on the top line. The good news is that, in TLN magic land, it isn't up to Randy anymore.


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Thursday, October 1, 2015
Mitchell Hamine Merger Moves Forward
The ABA's Accreditation Committee has recommended that the Council acquiesce in the planned merger between William Mitchell and Hamline's law school.
It has been at least mildly surprising that there have been no law school closures or other mergers until now.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Tuition Discounting and Consumer Information
Interesting piece from ABA Managing Director Barry Currier.
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Thursday, September 24, 2015
As Bar Pass Rates Decline, What is Next?
As states have been reporting their (generally lower) bar pass rates from the July examination, the debate about what is the cause and what should be done is intensifying. The New York Times has an interesting Room For Debate feature today. Professor Derek Muller has some interesting analysis here.
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Friday, September 18, 2015
Community-Engaged Research
It is easy to understand why people regard academics as arrogant.
We choose our scholarly projects via a process that appears to be self-centered, deciding what topics are worthy of our research time and energy simply by asking ourselves. Without even a drop of input from our communities, we decide how we will conduct our studies and think through solutions to the problems we address. We then publish our results, too often just to each other, and, when we do share our work beyond academia, we have a tendency to frame our presentations in an off-putting way: "You have this problem. I know the solution. Here." In other words, we say, in our best Captain Picard (of Star Trek Next Generation) voices, "Make it so."
As a result, non-academics have coined pejorative terms for our hard work such as "ivory tower" thinking and "navel gazing."
Even our plentiful, excellent, and admirable service work can possess a degree of self-reference to it. We decide there is a need, and we rush in to fix the problem, bringing our expertise and delivering it like a military aid air drop. And then we leave. Having worked on two ABA Rule of Law Initiative projects and a USAID project working with law teachers in three different countries, I must acknowledge my own, well-meaning service has involved some of this swooping in and out.
There is an attractive alternative. Community-engaged research or, as it is also known, the scholarship of engagement, is a national trend outside legal education. It is a different, arguably more humble, approach to planning and implementing the service and research projects we undertake. This form of research blurs the lines between scholarship and service and between researcher and community. Community-engaged researchers collaborate with community leaders in dialogues about the subjects they might choose to research, the methodologies they adopt for accomplishing their research objectives, and the solutions they develop. They do not delegate their scholarly agendas to their communities, but they do solicit, accept, and rely on community input. Read the materials at this link, from Loyola University Chicago, if you are interested in this movement.
Yesterday, my law school, UALR Bowen, and the UALR College of Social Sciences and Communication co-hosted a Community-Engaged Research Summit. We partnered with the College of Social Sciences and Communication because that college has a long tradition of community-engaged research, because my dean colleague there is herself an expert in such research, and because the faculty in that college possess the quantitative research design, survey construction, and statistical analysis skills needed for some of the projects we thought might be useful to Arkansas. If there is nothing I have learned from the humbling job of being a dean, I better know what I don't know and make sure I get the help I need.
In preparation for the Summit, the two colleges surveyed roughly 350 Arkansas community leaders, including judges, legislators, agency heads, non-profit leaders, and law firm managing partners, asking for their input into our future research projects. Our response rate was good, over 20%.
Based on this input, the two colleges shared the survey results during the Summit, inviting community leaders to identify research projects that can serve the state and local communities. A large number of the faculty members from the two colleges have indicated a willingness to participate in at least one project that comes out of the Summit.
Our first Summit went well. We were heartened to discover that most community leaders do not see us as ivory tower-dwelling narcissists, and many had thoughts about research projects we should undertake. However, we were concerned that a significant segment of the respondents either did not believe our work could help them or at least did not recognize how our research work might serve their professional work. For a first-time event, attendance was pretty good. Attendees included the Arkansas Attorney General and a number of other lawyers in her office, a federal court judge and a state court judge, a legislator, the executive director of Arkansas Access to Justice, several prosecutors, a number of private practice attorneys, a prominent legal aid lawyer, two representatives of Arkansas' medical school, and a senior employee of a high tech business. A second legislator asked me to send her the video of the event. Several collaboration connections were made. I am optimistic.
I wish I could "Make it so" and magically convince our government and community leaders to collaborate with us immediately, but we are at a starting line. I hope this post convinces other law schools to consider joining us here.
September 18, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Should schools judge sexual assault allegations?
Law professors often contribute to important public policy issues. Here as story about a debate between four distinguished law professors (including Dean Michelle Anderson) about whether colleges or courts should adjudicate claims of on-campus sexual assaults.
September 18, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Paul v. Harper on legal education
Very interesting exchange between writer/blogger Steven Harper and Dean Jeremy Paul:
September 18, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Pruning the Weeds?
Many deans around the country have expressed concern that the National Conference of Bar Examiners is purposely gaming the MBE to reduce the number of lawyers entering the profession. While the NCBE has stated that declining credentials for entering law students has been the primary reason for a decline in bar passage rates in many jurisdictions, I have spoken to many deans who say that their entering credentials have remained flat, because they have reduced the size of their entering classes.
I find it interesting how many lawyers told me when I was dean that law schools are producing too many new lawyers. I heard the same sentiment about the booming population of Florida, when I lived there. Politicians and citizens advocated for limiting the numbers of people migrating to the state. Why do we naturally assume that the best solution for overpopulation of a state or a profession is barring (pun intended) the entry of new participants? Many senior members of the bar entered law school before there was an LSAT, and several states even admitted those lawyers through the diploma privilege. Maybe we should thin the profession by requiring a practice competence exam for lawyers every decade or so. Those who do not pass would lose their licenses, or be required to take special training to regain the skill necessary to practice law.
If there are too many lawyers, why do we assume that the best solution is to make it harder to enter the profession?
September 15, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Monday, September 14, 2015
100/100 and the Value of Aspiration
Robert W. Adler
S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
At the dedication of the new home for the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law, I announced our new 100/100 Initiative, which establishes a firm goal of attaining 100% first-time bar passage and 100% full-time professional employment for our new graduates as quickly as possible.
Although our roles as law school administrators often diverge from our work as scholars, in this case my strong belief in the value of setting aspirational goals derives in part from my scholarship. I recently published an article on this issue in connection with the thirtieth anniversary of the Clean Water Act (CWA) (Robert W. Adler, The Decline and (Possible) Renewal of Aspiration in the Clean Water Act, 88 Wash. L. Rev. 759 (2013), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2567451). The CWA is full of highly aspirational goals: full restoration of the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the Nation's waters; "zero discharge" of pollutants; "fishable and swimmable waters" nationwide. Although we have not met those goals despite three decades of effort, our waters are far cleaner and healthier than when Congress adopted the law. One reason for that success is that we set the bar so high, and another is that Congress backed up the goals with concrete (although imperfect) implementing tools.
I fully expected mixed reactions to my announcement of the 100/100 Initiative, from praise to some serious skepticism. In his otherwise positive blog post, Professor Paul Caron referred to the 100/100 goals as "audacious." I agree. They are bold, and intentionally so. We care about every one of our students, and we want every one of them to succeed.
Just as important, our goals are backed up by very concrete steps we will take to meet them as quickly and as aggressively as possible. For bar passage rates, those measures include better academic support to our second and third-year students; increased and enhanced formative assessments during core bar exam courses; and better predictive modeling of those students who face a higher risk of not passing the bar exam. For employment, they include more one-on-one mentoring; improved student-alumni networking; exploratory incubator programs; and rural job placement programs.
I am quite serious about our intent to meet these goals. And if we fail to meet the 100/100 goals, we will add and modify strategies with the intent of getting closer and closer. Every year. As aspirational goals, they prompt us to do better than we are now, and better than we would have otherwise. Thus, even as goals, they will serve a very useful purpose. In my CWA article, I labeled this phenomenon "aspiration as asymptote." The goals prod us to get closer and closer, even if we never quite reach the end.
The alternative attitude, which I refer to in my CWA article as "the pathology of excessive aspiration," is that we view such lofty goals as "so ambitious that they cannot possibly be met," and therefore we simply stop trying. That unfortunate and pessimistic view, I fear, is how some in the legal community now view legal education today, particularly in light of declining applications and other challenges.
Our task is to shun the pathological view, and instead to set—and to use—lofty aspirations as challenges to push us to do better. Our students deserve no less.
September 14, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, September 11, 2015
Imagining a World without Merit Scholarships
Dean Dan Rodriguez and I have been sharing some thoughts about tuition discounting in legal education. In this post I would like to raise the possibility of ending or scaling back the destructive practice of merit scholarships.
To summarize and add to some of Dan's points, among the negative attributes and effects of merit scholarships are these:
*"merit" is typically defined very narrowly in terms grades and standardized test scores;
*directing so much scholarship money toward merit aid has caused need based aid to shrink (at many schools, there is now effectively no need-based financial aid);
*the students who receive the most merit-based aid are often the least needy, because high test scores correspond with socio-economic advantage, and generally translate into higher law school grades and, consequently, employment opportunities;
*the need for large sums of merit-based aid has contributed significantly to the excessive rise in tuition.
I am not proud to participate in this system of allocating financial aid. Yet individual deans and schools are essentially helpless to resist. The process by which merit scholarships proliferated was very rational, even if the results are undesirable. When the first schools tried to move up in the US News rankings by discounting tuition for students with strong academic credentials, other schools had to copy them if they wished to remain competitive. It is tempting to believe that schools could ignore this trend, but that simply ignores reality. Our susceptibility to the influence of rankings is not admirable, but it is widespread in higher education, particularly in law. At almost all schools, a dean who refused to play this game would have been replaced by one who would play. These trends have been playing out throughout many segments of higher education, not just law, which demonstrates the stickiness of the problem.
The only real way to resist the logic and power of merit scholarships is through collective action. An agreement among schools that all aid will be need-based, if adhered to, would be a game-changer. The obvious questions are whether such an agreement among law schools is lawful and practical. Frank Wu has done some excellent research on the law pertaining to this. He will be posting on this site soon to explain. In essence, there is a federal statute that seems to offer protection from antitrust rules that otherwise might prohibit this. This is why the Ivy League schools can agree to offer only need-based aid.
If lawful, would such an agreement be attainable? Could law schools reach and abide by such a policy? Would it result in a lower tuition rate over time? I hope that we can start a conversation on these and other related questions.
September 11, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Illinois Seeks Public Comment on Uniform Bar Exam
Download IBAB Request for Public Comment UBE 091015
The request has a very good memo summarizing some of the strengths and weaknesses of the UBE. Now that New York has signed on, I expect that the UBE will sweep much of the country, which will be a good thing.
September 11, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Explaining Law Clinics to the Community
[by Rick Bales]
Inspired by an email Michael Wolff shared several months back, I used the occasion of our hiring a new Clinic Director to write an op-ed for the local paper explaining the role of a law clinic. Here's an excerpt; the entire op-ed follows the break. Feel free to borrow freely for your own purposes.
... The ONU Law Clinic serves two critical purposes. First, it represents Lima residents who cannot afford to hire a private lawyer. ONU Law students represent Lima clients with domestic violence proceedings, divorces, expungements (sealing an arrest or conviction so it is not publicly available), wills and trusts, and many other types of cases. Unfortunately, the need for such services exceeds our ability to provide them, so we often have a waiting list even for residents who are income-eligible.
Second, our Clinic gives our students hands-on experience doing things that real lawyers do, such as interviewing clients, appearing in court, and drafting legal documents, under the close supervision of an experienced attorney. Because the Clinic's clients tend to be from poor and marginalized communities, the Clinic helps ONU Law students understand that everyone deserves a voice and vigorous representation, and demonstrates to students why it's important that they continue to serve the underserved later in their professional careers.
As dean of the Law School, I don't choose the Clinic's clients, and I don't choose the clients' cases. Sometimes, the Clinic represents unpopular clients, on unpopular cases. But so do real lawyers – and every once in a while, today's unpopular legal cause becomes tomorrow's groundbreaking legal advance. Civil rights is the perfect example. ...
We at ONU Law are proud of our Clinic. It gives us an opportunity to serve the Lima community while at the same time training law students to be better lawyers and, more importantly, better people. The French poet Anatole France famously said that the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal bread. The ONU Law Clinic helps ensure that tomorrow's lawyers understand that in the United States, justice is not the privilege of a wealthy few, but a right that all of us are entitled to.
September 9, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0)
The Changing Role of University Provosts
An interesting article. A lot of the same things could be said about law school deans.
September 9, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
The Disappearance of the New Law Professor
New law professor hires are down 55% since 2011. Not a big surprise, but the numbers are still jolting.
September 8, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sunday, September 6, 2015
LSU Dean Search (posting on behalf of Professor Lee Ann Lockridge)
On behalf of Professor Lee Ann Lockridge from LSU Law Center:
September 6, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, September 4, 2015
Law student integration
With this fall's class at my law school, we reached an interesting milestone. Roughly half of the entering students are in programs other than the standard three-JD program. In our case, this is the result of several programs, including LLM for foreign lawyers, dual degree students, LLM Tax, a 2-year accelerated JD, and our next program, a Master of Science in Law for STEM professionals. Although this particular mix of programs is unique to us, I know that a growing number of other law schools have a combination of innovative programs that, too, bring in a sizeable cohort of "other" students.
An acute challenge is how best to integrate these students into the law school community. I should begin by articulating and defending the premise. The law school community benefits from the perspectives and backgrounds that students in what I will call, clumsily, non-core programs, provide. In our experience, JD students learn in important ways from non-US students sitting side-by-side with them in their courses; they also learn from students whose professional ambitions are sufficiently distinct that they are drawn to non-core programs (such as, for instance, a dual degree with a management or engineering school). Moreover, if a law school is deliberate about fostering teamwork and modalities of blended learning, then the diversity of the law school cohort is enormously advantageous. As in so many other walks of life, diversity = strength.
That all said, integration provides significant challenges to the modern law school. For example, career services is bound up inextricably with the rather conventional job search by 2nd and 3rd year JD students. This group is high maintenance and rightly so. And the job search for law firm positions (especially for those law schools with a reasonably robust OCI scheme) are within the wheelhouse of career services pros. Students in non-core programs will face unique challenges and a law school needs to be fairly strategic and intentional about how they assist students in their employment objectives.
Students services presents another piece of this puzzle. Foreign students present unique challenges and, in my experience, only the most well-resourced schools have truly undertaken to provide special, purposive support -- beyond English language and immigration assistance -- to students who come to our U.S. law schools for a year. There are indeed a myriad of challenges and one of the most vexing ones is how to integrate a critical mass of foreign law students into a community of law students and faculty so as to capture for all community members the true benefits of an international diverse and engaged student body. Law schools are in dire need of attention to "best practices" in this space, for the challenges of integration are substantial.
Law faculties are experienced primarily with JD students. They were all JD students once upon a time, and most of them too were lawyers, thereby doing (even if briefly) the jobs to which the traditional JD students aspire. Calling upon them to teach and mentor a distinct cohort of non-core students presents some unique challenges. In the case of our new MSL program, we have elided this challenge somewhat by putting together a retinue of separate courses (more than thirty this year!) for which the faculty, a mix of full-time and adjunct, are very carefully selected. But, in reality, most of the work of teaching non-core students will fall on the shoulders of the core law faculty. We would do well to think strategically and structurally about how best to help faculty in tackling what are clearly unique challenges.
Last, but not least, there is the matter of the social. The strength of our respective student communities is in no small part tied to the lengths we go to be supportive of our students' well-being. Creating and nurturing a collaborative student culture is a part of this; designing mechanisms to deal with crises and difficulties (through counseling and such) is a part as well. Creative efforts are necessary to ensure that the integration of diverse students into the complex cohort of our omnibus student community is successful not only in bringing all students to graduation, but in shaping a community in which all of our law students thrive, professionally and socially.
This post is mainly a polemic, any way you slice it. But my plea is that we as deans think of new ways to share information and ideas to improve integration in our law student communities. As new non-core programs proliferate, the imperative of doing so can only grow.
September 4, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuition discounting from the students' perspective
Where you stand depends upon where you sit, as the saying goes. For eligible law students, tuition discounting provides an unalloyed good. Q.E.D. This a wealth transfer from law school general revenue, more often than not from tuition generated by other students who are providing this cross-subsidy. What's not to like?
How about this: The overall scheme redounds to the detriment of needy students in the aggregate. Students who collect the subsidy are not necessarily -- and I would suggest not especially -- in the pool for which financial support to address the gap between what they can afford and what the school charges. And, to make matters worse, law schools have a clear incentive to increase tuition precisely in order to pay for this cross-subsidy, the result of which is needy students are farther and farther from the shore. So, it would be a mistake to think of tuition discounting are "pro student" in some global sense. Rather, it is a way in which law schools (a) down the pecking order (and, except for Yale, we are all down the pecking order), and (b) who can afford to do so, maintain their competitive credentials and enrollment levels. That this benefits a few meritorious (lucky?) students at the top of the applicant food chain is a by-product of this strategy.
The systemic effects of the strategies are problematic in the long run. A large group of students are on the other side of the glass looking in, as they are paying a high sticker price to support the overall economic structure of the law school. A small group of students get a windfall. And for these group of students, they are making a choice that is not necessarily optimal in that they are eschewing prestige and the professional advantages that accompany it in order to reduce their financial burdens. To be clear, no one should judge the individual student who insists with evidence that they cannot afford higher tuition at [first choice school]. But we are back to the basic point: If it is need, not want, that is driving this enrollment decision by the high merit student at the margin, then a more ideal system would look more fundamentally at need-based financial aid in order to reduce debt.
A short digression here about debt load: Tuition discounting may indeed bring down aggregate debt load, but the devil here is in the details. Is the effect of this financial sorting to increase significantly the number of students who will leave with zero or modest debt (beneficiaries of the sort) while increasing by some measurable amount the students who will see their debt loads increase? The ABA furnishes us data about aggregate debt, and also about % of students who receive scholarships. We can certainly extrapolate tuition discount rates from extant data. But we don't typically know exactly how the benefits and burdens are distributed. Nor can we know what needs knowing, which are the employment & entry-level compensation profile of students who receive these discounts and at which level. Nuanced information about both the magnitude and the impact of this cross-subsidy requires such fine-grained information.
In a last post on this topic, I will offer some thoughts about discounting and professional school economics more generally. For now, I hope to have sparked at least a bit more thinking about the connection between aggressive discounting and student well-being. No clear conclusions or profound wisdom here, but just a modest suggestion that the matter is complex and controversial.
September 4, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Guest Post By Dean Michael Hunter Schwartz (UALR)
I agreed to try my hand as a guest on this blog because of my interest in offering a dissent. I am frustrated by how the media has framed a one-perspective, evil, legal education monolith. In my perhaps distorted dean mind, I am imagining The Death Star of Star Wars fame somehow viewed only in one dimension.
I make no promises about my ability to successfully ingratiate an alternative narrative, and I worry that blogging might humble me in the way athletics did when I was younger. But I will try this one time, see how it goes, and, with luck, I will get feedback that guides me (and the editors of this blog) as to whether I should ever blog again.
Today, I hope to tell a story that adds a second dimension, our students. This dimension might be headlined, "Law Students Provide Critical Value to Our Communities."
Students serve our communities through our public service externships (working for judges, government agencies, prosecutors, public defenders, and non-profits), our legal clinics, and our pro bono programs. I recently calculated an estimate of the number of hours students attending my law school, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H Bowen School of Law, contributed between August 1, 2014, and July 31, 2015. The number: more than 20,000 hours. In one year. Multiply that number by 205 law schools, and you can estimate that law students provided more than 4,000,000 hours of public service last year.
According to Independent Sector, the latest estimated hourly value of volunteer time is $23.07 per hour. Surely, law students volunteering their time in legal settings cannot be worth less per hour. At $23.07 per hour, UALR Bowen's students contributed an estimated $461,400 worth of volunteer service to Arkansas last year, and all law schools contributed an estimated $92,280,000 worth of volunteer service throughout this country.
The service our students provide has become critical to our underfunded legal system. For example, in Arkansas, judges, prosecutors and public defenders in areas near the state's two law schools have plenty of access to research support for their work. For all the other judges, prosecutors, and public defenders, particularly those who work in rural parts of the state, support is uneven at best and non-existent most commonly. UALR Bowen recently created new practica courses in which our students will work for the underserved judges, prosecutors, and public defenders using distance technologies and under the supervision of a judicial clerk, prosecutor, or public defender here in Little Rock. This change allows us to ensure that all our students, even our night students, are able to complete our experiential learning requirement while also serving the state. How many judges, prosecutors, and public defenders are law students supporting nationally? I would be excited to know.
September 4, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Tuition discounting is not the panacea
Not the panacea, that is, to the economic woes facing U.S. law schools and the debt predicament of our students. As noted in my earlier post, the key dilemma for law schools engaged in heavy discounting is how to pay for this subsidy. For schools using existing tuition revenue, rather than external sources of cash, they have two choices: Increase student enrollment in order to pay for the discount (assuming here that such discounting is being used as merit aid) or increase tuition. There is a fair amount of research (e.g., Hillman, Research in Higher Educ. 2012 and Martin, Econ. of Educ. Rev. 2002 are two good surveys of the evidence & literature) which points to diminishing marginal returns to schools that engage in discounting. The Hobson's choice looms squarely before law schools who engage in aggressive discounting.
What is interesting, but ultimately unsustainable, is the apparent strategy in recent years of discounting without augmented student enrollment on the JD side and without accelerating tuition (at least in the last few years). So where is the $$ coming from? Augmentations in non-JD enrollments is one clear answer. The question here -- and hence the title of this post -- is whether such strategies are sustainable in the intermediate & long-run. I predict that the answer will be no, for reasons that warrant a separate, more nuanced, analysis. However, even if and insofar things on the LLM & Masters degree front continue to look rosy, law schools will need to take a hard look at how these enrollment strategies jibe with the overall objectives of the law school and, critically, the complex, dynamic marketplace that is implicated by moving headlong into the non-JD space.
I suppose little should be said here about the tactic of increasing tuition, except to say that it is a fairly bad option, for all sorts of reasons. What is scary is that the perceived imperative of steeply discounting tuition imposes pressure on law schools not to engage in substantial tuition reductions, reductions which we would expect would redound to the benefit of a wider cohort of students -- that is to say, all of them! David Yellen's observation at the end of his post that tuition discounting improves well-being of students by lowering their debt load begs the question: Compared to what? Compared to meaningful reductions in tuition? Debt load is calculated as an average. Wouldn't we want to know whether and to what extent debt load on the part of students least able to afford it is decreasing?
One other skeptical comment about the relationship between tuition discounting and student well-being: Such strategies will usually mean ("usually" meaning for all but the wealthiest schools) a reduction in resources being devoted to other worthwhile endeavors within the law school. If we assume that faculty costs are essentially fixed (not a wholly accurate assumption to be sure, but plausible when you factor in the politics of the matter, and also the competitive instinct toward relentless competition among law schools to recruit and retain faculty talent), then what will be shaken loose will be variable costs for, say, student services and other mechanisms of support. It is not that simple, of course. But my small point here is just this: The wealth transfer from the law school budgets to the "best and brightest" has more complicated impacts on overall student well-being than meets the eye.
In the end, I do not mean all of this to be a screed against tuition discounting. Engaging in calculated efforts, through aid, for top students is a common strategy, and increasingly so in this rankings-sensitive environment. And there are in fact some positive aspects for students facing difficult economic conditions and tough choices. But the unintended consequences of such rapid run ups in these discounting strategies -- especially on the part of law schools which can scarcely afford to be making such expensive investments in this turbulent environment -- warrants more careful analysis, based upon theory and data, and perhaps a bit more caution.
September 1, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, August 31, 2015
Would You Like My Job as a Law School Dean?
I had lunch today with someone who aspires to my job of heading an institution of higher education. That's terrific. I have encouraged him. He possesses the competencies and the interest; it is possible to have one without the other.
These are not easy roles. Every day, I read about a university system president, campus chancellor, or law school dean who has announced a resignation.
I have entered my sixth year of service as Chancellor & Dean of University of California Hastings College of the Law; my tenth with the decanal title. (I have an unusual position, because we are among the few "stand alone" law schools, meaning the institution offers only that single discipline of study.)
Here is a bit of data that depresses me. Based on the numbers, I rank in the top third of my profession for seniority in my current office and top sixth for seniority cumulatively.
That is not to praise myself; it's to deplore the turnover rate. Recently, the tenure of law school deans reached a record low. The median hit 2.78 years — less time than it takes one of our students to graduate with the J.D. (To be precise, as one should with statistics, this is the median rather than the mean, which likely is a better representation of longevity; it also presents a moment in time, not the length of service when it ends, which would be greater.)
It is unlikely that any leader, however competent, can bring about positive change in that short a time. Even if they come from inside the place and have performed similar functions, they would barely have established themselves and figured out what had to be done.
There are various reasons for this instability. Law schools are an extreme example. But what is true of law schools also is true to a significant extent of liberal arts colleges and of almost all other segments of higher education. Most of what a comprehensive campus enrolling 25,000 must do, a "special focus" school enrolling 1000 also must do. The same norms are applied across the board.
Higher education brings together multiple constituencies with conflicting goals. Students, faculty, alumni, staff, and the many members of the public who regard themselves as stakeholders have dissimilar notions of what a school should be doing. Some perceive its purpose of the advancement of knowledge in a classic, timeless sense. Others see it as a credentialing authority, a job placement agency, the freedom of moving away from home, a parent in absentia, a child care provider, an employer, a landlord, an investor, a neighbor, and a public space.
Even within a constituency, the expectations are contradictory and rising. Schools are to do more for less, either receiving a decreased state subsidy or holding constant tuition. They are to feature renowned faculty whose scholarship has the best reputation, without being involved in controversy. They are to have winning athletic teams on television, while graduating significant numbers of players and avoiding abuse of them or by them. They are charged with enforcing laws about immigration and new norms of sexual conduct, responding to regulations and improving in rankings.
Yet schools also have relatively high fixed costs. There are few incentives to offer for performance (and limited disincentives for the lack of it). Competition has become significant even as differentiation has become more difficult.
These causes tend to ratchet. That is, they make themselves worse. The more churning in the executive suite, the more uncertainty throughout; the more uncertainty throughout, the greater the risk to performance measures; the greater the risk to performance measures, the more likely churning in the executive suite.
When I left the practice of law and entered academe, I had no aspiration toward administration. I thought it would mean giving up the opportunity to develop my own ideas and train students as advocates. That was the point of pursuing an academic career. It was all about thinking. Very few of us are paid to think for a living, much less to think about what we want to think about, and, furthermore, to tell people what we have thought.
I had the privilege, however, of serving as Trustee at Gallaudet University, the school for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. I saw what a great college president, Dr. I. King Jordan, whose selection was the culmination of the "Deaf President Now!" civil rights movement, could do to transform a community.
I was inspired. My goal is to improve higher education, to ensure it continues to be the engine of the American Dream. I would not be here, in a literal sense, if it were not for higher education in America. My parents came as scholarship students, and they were able to do what so many have done: to better their own lot in life even as they contributed as productive citizens in our diverse democracy.
We once believed in higher education as a public good. It benefited society as a whole and deserved support, even from individuals and families who might not attend any particular school.
Now, whatever our politics, the consensus has shifted toward higher education as a private good. It is for the person who desires it, as a consumer good to be marketed, sold, and in turn bought. Then, essentially, it can be resold in the form of a worker who has the requisite stamp of approval. That person bears the burden of paying for it, typically through debt financing. (Given this scheme, I do not for a moment begrudge our students. Paying the tuition they are charged, of course they call themselves "consumers." In a forthcoming post, I will offer an alternative conception of the relationship that would serve their interests better.)
Managing a college means being a generalist and being practical. A college encompasses its core academic functions, but it also has to perform well in everything from labor relations and information technology to marketing and fundraising to student health and housing. When I was a professor, I did not need to be concerned about any of that. Now there isn't any single person at the school other than me, who has to have a hand in or at least keep an eye on the complete range of issues. I have had to acquire practical knowledge and skills, even as I strive to delegate appropriately and effectively. The challenge surpasses any scholarly project I have undertaken.
For my colleague who wanted to know more about how he should prepare for this job, I have been as open as possible.
I wish him luck. He needs it less in applying than he will once he has been hired.
This essay originally appeared at Linked In through the Influencer program.
August 31, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0)
How to Start Law School: 'I Know Kung Fu'
I love to welcome students to law school. There is such enthusiasm this time of the year. Here is what I shared with our incoming 1Ls at UC Hastings.
When I was a kid growing up in Detroit in the 1970s, I was a stutterer. Back then, the treatment for a stammer included forcing you to do speech and debate.
That explains how I ended up in law school. But if I can stand in front of an audience, then anybody can. There are always moments of anxiety and self-doubt in an intense experience such as what you have signed up for. It's important to know that others have done fine and made it through.
Law professors usually make three points.
First, you are joining a profession. It is customary to say that happens when you matriculate, not when you graduate. But there is another aspect that was not once uttered to me when I was a student, twenty-five years ago. It's about the nature of the profession.
Law is a service profession. You serve others. That's the meaning of representation. You act on behalf of your clients and not yourself.
You also are an officer of the court. That requires that you advance justice.
I always thought when I finished my education, I would be an expert: I would be entitled to tell people what to do.
As soon as I was working as a lawyer, I was disabused of that notion; it's the other way around. Someone else's interests are always above your own self-interest.
There are no hermit lawyers.
You are joining a community. That is what makes a law school great. More than the research and the teaching, it is the sense of belonging. Look to your right, look to your left. These are future clients, law partners, the judges before whom you will appear. For some, the individual seated there is your future spouse or partner.
Second, you get out of this what you put into it. Education requires engagement, It is not a product to be purchased, but a process to participate in.
When I work out -- you heard I'm preparing for another half-marathon -- I always end up a bit more lackadaisical than I intended when I requested a session at the gym. As the trainer tells me, I need to exert effort on my own initiative. She is there to encourage. But it has to be me expending energy.
Third, I will say what I say every year. Students always ask for advice. Here is what I will say: "Sell your television."
When I started teaching -- to my chagrin, I am no longer mistaken for a student -- it was enough to say that. Now, I have to add due to technological change, cancel your streaming services, digital subscriptions, and so on: Netflix, Hulu Premium, however you receive video content.
I say that not because I dislike television. Just the opposite. I'm waiting, like many around the world, to binge watch the next season of Sherlock. That's why.
It's too tempting to have a program running in the background. It'll distract you. My suggestion is a test of your commitment. I'm not talking about giving up your favorite show forever -- it'll still be there when the semester is over. My colleagues point out the need for balance; I agree -- I just recommend what is active rather than passive.
I envy new law students. I am reminded of the 1999 blockbuster The Matrix. (Never mind the sequels.) When Mr. Anderson becomes Neo, he sees the code that makes up the reality around him. That's what law school will do. You'll wake up and say, "I know kung fu." You will perceive the law that constitutes society around you.
If you have ever enjoyed arguing, there is nothing like the exhilaration of starting law school.
For the benefit of first-year law students, I have written a series of blog entries on starting to think like a lawyer, the "trick" to law school, how to answer any legal question, the concept of "meta," and why numbers matter.
This essay originally appeared on Huffington Post.
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