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December 10, 2009, 06:00 PM ET
Full UMass Board Endorses Proposal to Acquire a Law School
The University of Massachusetts' Board of Trustees has approved a plan that would give the state its first public law school, adding its endorsement to previous approvals by two committees of the board, The Boston Globe reported. The proposal, under which the university's Dartmouth campus would acquire the private Southern New England School of Law, still must win approval from the state's Board of Higher Education. That board rejected a similar plan in 2005.
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1. laurencejgillis - December 11, 2009 at 07:11 am
Massachusetts already has quite a few law schools: Harvard, BU, BC, New England, Suffolk, etc. In other words, the Bay State is already very much "lawyered up".
So, is this acquisition somehow part of a grand and noble educational vision on the part of UMass, or is it just another corporate M&A?
My thought is that the local "law-school industry" already suffers from an excess of capacity, so the facility in Dartmouth should simply shut down.
Larry Gillis (Cape Coral FL)
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