It was a GOOD week for …
Conservative law schools, after a review of U.S. News & World Report data showed that three right-leaning schools have improved the most in terms of reputation in the study. Pepperdine University, George Mason University and University of San Diego have each improved their reputation score since 1998. George Mason rose from No. 76 to No. 51; San Diego from No. 69 to No. 51; and Pepperdine from No. 107 to No. 65. William Henderson, a law professor at Indiana University, stated “If moving on USN Academic Reputation is really important to a faculty, the lesson here is, “make a hard, high-profile right turn, and wait a decade.” That said, there are probably not enough spoils to go around for more than a handful of conservative law schools to use this strategy.”
It was a BAD week for …
Relying on cash cows, after Catholic University of American announced that it would cut operational expenses by 20 percent because law school applications were down. The law school accounts for 10 percent of the university’s overall enrollment, but apparently was a much larger percent of total tuition. The university said the law school was still profitable.
