American Bar Assn. Censures Villanova Law School Over Falsified Admissions Reports

The American Bar Association has publicly censured Villanova University’s School of Law for reporting inflated admissions data, but the group stopped short of yanking the school’s accreditation, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. In a letter the association required the law school to post on its Web site, the ABA’s accrediting section said the fraudulent reporting had been “reprehensible and damaging to prospective law-school applicants” and would be enough to justify putting the school on probation or removing its accreditation. The group decided not to take that step, however, because school administrators had acted quickly to disclose and deal with the problems and to fire the employees involved.