January 21, 2000

Founding Dean of Online Law School Defends Its Approach

By SARAH CARR

Concord University School of Law, the first all-online law school, has aroused strong opinions and emotions since it opened a little more than a year ago. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg weighed in last September, saying she was "uneasy about classes in which students learn entirely from home." But Jack R. Goetz, dean of the school (http://www.concord.kaplan.edu), stands behind his vision. Concord, which is not accredited by the American Bar Association, is a division of Kaplan

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