One key group missing from the Conference was Deans. I would have loved to hear from some Deans on how they would implement broad-based assessment when they are the same time trying to manage budgets, get their faculty to write more, and improve their school’s US News ranking. As to the latter, does one gain anything at all in US News rankings by having a state of the art assessment regime? There is a huge issue of aligning what should be the prime goal of law schools–legal education–with other institutional imperatives, some of which, like US News, are imposed from without.
Jeff Rensberger
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Part 4 the Legal Education at the Crossroads conference
One key group missing from the Conference was Deans. I would have loved to hear from some Deans on how they would implement broad-based assessment when they are the same time trying to manage budgets, get their faculty to write more, and improve their school’s US News ranking. As to the latter, does one gain anything at all in US News rankings by having a state of the art assessment regime? There is a huge issue of aligning what should be the prime goal of law schools–legal education–with other institutional imperatives, some of which, like US News, are imposed from without.
Jeff Rensberger
This entry was posted on Thursday, September 24th, 2009 at 10:30 am and is filed under ABA, Assessment, Commentary, Conferences, Law Professors, Law Schools, Rankings, Student Learning, Teaching. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.