Pro Bono Barrister: Crisis at Albany Law School brings fight into the open
While schools such as our own Brooklyn Law are dealing effectively with the profession-wide financial crisis, other law-related institutions are not doing well at all.
The most recent case in point is the crisis at Albany Law School where, according to the NYLJ’s Tania Karas and John Caher, the school and “some of its professors are at odds over plans to reduce faculty size due to declining enrollment, giving rise to a broader question of whether the institution should lower its standards to save jobs,”
Karas and Caher report that the school “offered buyouts to up to eight longer-tenured and higher-salaried professors. At the same time, the Board of Trustees, in a statement, and the law school’s dean, in an interview, flatly rejected an idea, apparently promoted by some faculty, to lower admissions standards.”