tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post6346141774661281908..comments2024-02-23T04:59:26.907-05:00Comments on But I Did Everything Right!: UMASS Dartmouth School of Law: The School I Love to HateAngelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07820446523257638689noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-44418108686204260392012-05-13T12:35:33.827-04:002012-05-13T12:35:33.827-04:00Provisional Accreditation Recommended by ABA Commi...Provisional Accreditation Recommended by ABA Committee<br />The American Bar Association Accreditation Committee has recommended to the Council on Legal Education that UMass Law be granted provisional ABA approval. <br /><br />The Committee concluded the following: <br /><br />“In accordance with Standard 102, the Committee concludes that the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School of Law has established that it is in substantial compliance with each of the ABA Standards for Approval of Law Schools, and has presented a reliable plan for bringing itself into full compliance with the Standards within three years after receiving provisional approval. Therefore, the Committee recommends to the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar that it grant provisional ABA approval to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School of Law.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-8271952115492140502011-12-17T06:01:07.836-05:002011-12-17T06:01:07.836-05:00You are a cynical bunch of people.You are a cynical bunch of people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-29408355347085594392010-07-10T10:47:55.474-04:002010-07-10T10:47:55.474-04:00a friend of mine from undergrad went there with it...a friend of mine from undergrad went there with it was Southern New England. He didn't know the school was unaccredited until after he started. He got dismmissed because of grades and now has to sit out two years before he can apply again to an ABA accredited school and start completely over as a 1L (he was finishing his second yr there) We haven't kept in contact much lately so I don't know if anything new has developed with him. When the "takeover" happened he got an offer to come back but would have had to restart as an 1L also (def to get more money out of him) Just goes to show how much you really need to research a school before deciding to attend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-35648810453509527762010-07-08T16:41:47.889-04:002010-07-08T16:41:47.889-04:00I agree with 4:30. If banks didn't lend money...I agree with 4:30. If banks didn't lend money to students for fruitless majors/professional schools... they wouldn't go. They are on the hook for life and can't discharge the debt in bankruptcy, hence eliminating risk and encouraging irresponsible lending and borrowing.Angelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07820446523257638689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-21299099321893801142010-07-08T16:30:47.702-04:002010-07-08T16:30:47.702-04:00Anonymous, while I share in your sentiment concern...Anonymous, while I share in your sentiment concerning the educational industrial complex, your blame on capitalism may be misplaced.<br /><br />Under a free market system -- i.e., without federally-backed loan guarantees and the flooding of the market with cheap money in the form of student loans -- banks would only make loans to students for academic programs that would actually enable the students to pay the loan back. Otherwise, banks would risk not getting their money back.<br /><br />Further, and perhaps more significantly, under a free market system, schools would be subject to market forces. That is, schools would no longer be able to hike up tuitions as they have done in recent decades. Instead, schools would be forced to slash prices or go out of business.<br /><br />In short, what we have in the student lending industry is not a free market, but a managed economy -- much like the housing industry and the healthcare industry in this country. The solution is less government involvement in the student lending industry, not more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-70704286556789256602010-07-08T16:16:45.188-04:002010-07-08T16:16:45.188-04:00Now that I have a project coming to an end, it mig...Now that I have a project coming to an end, it might be fun to drop by the local law schools during orientation week and hand out some pamphlets with excerpts and links to the scamblogs. Consider it mission work for fiscal salvation.<br /><br />"God loves you, and has a plan for your life, and it is not law school."Free in 2028http://www.theabeatlesneverbrokeup.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452025352696285200.post-47699185651364907282010-07-08T16:03:07.955-04:002010-07-08T16:03:07.955-04:00Law school deans, adminsitrators and the ABA are s...Law school deans, adminsitrators and the ABA are showing how morally dispicable they are as a group. Opening more law schools will allow these same law school deans, administrators and faculty to line their pockets at the expense of students that are desperate to escape the harsh realities of the current recession. Many people are either unemployed or underemployed and law schools continue, with impunity, to prey on the desperation and anxiety of said people with trumped up employment and salary stats. Mark my words, we will be the first over-educated third world country. But at least the law school deans, professors at co-conspirators will be living life high on the hog. You have to love capitalism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com