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Sunday Schedule
Program
Annual
Meeting
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Sunday, January 5, 2003
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8:30-10:15 a.m.
Section on Post-Graduate Legal Education
Adi Altshuler, Northwestern University, Chair |
Virginia Suite C
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Lobby Level |
Maintaining Quality and Generating Revenues
in Post Graduate Programs
Moderator:
Robert M. Zinman, St. John's University
Speakers: - Celeste M. Hammond, John Marshall Law School
- Ronald A. Pearlman, Georgetown University
- Philip Frederick Postlewaite, Northwestern University
- David E. Van Zandt, Northwestern University
One of the most difficult problems for LL.M. programs is to balance the desire to achieve quality education with the practical need to provide revenues for the university, or at least not become a drain on the law school. There is no question that quality education requires the expenditure of funds - hiring additional full time professors, engaging the top practitioners to serve as adjunct faculty in specialized courses, and providing the students with the administrative and mentoring support and assistance necessary not only to achieve success in the program, but to find top jobs and to develop a successful career. On the other hand, law school faculty members are not anxious to see the resources of the school expended on a few privileged LL.M. students, and common wisdom says that LL.M. programs should produce substantial revenues for the school. At this session, we will present the views of a group of people with experience in walking this tightrope.
This panel will address the following issues:
- From strategic plan to a newly created graduate program: planning the new tax program at Northwestern University School of Law.
- The Quest for Academic Excellence in Post Graduate Programs: goals and standards, achieving and maintaining excellence, the effect on law school ranking and reputation.
- Generating Revenues: marketing and recruiting, budgetary considerations in student admission and curriculum planning, reconciling financial and academic demands.
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion
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