It would be tough to be less committed short of closing.
HB 470 has been referred to the House Education Committee this afternoon.
If you want to keep track of HB470
https://legiscan.com/LA/bill/HB470/2019
https://legiscan.com/LA/bill/HCR24/2019
Another Cedric Glover et al - Resolution.
I think this one makes sense about the Southern University Law Center. It would be a new law school, just an extension of Southern-BR Law School. I know Louisiana College wanted to open a Law school in Shreveport, but they had MANY hurdles, especially $$$ and accreditation. A Southern Campus in Shreveport probably would just need the funds for teachers, if they used existing Southern-Shreveport campus, which could probably be paid through tuition. If they wanted to purchase and renovate a new building like LA College wanted, it would cost MILLIONS. It would probably also receive some help financially from the local legal community.
I think this would also be good for Tech grads looking into going to Law School as it would give us a North Louisiana campus. Currently there are 4 law schools in Louisiana - 2 public in B.R. - LSU & Southern and 2 private in New Orleans - Tulane & Loyola.
Current Costs:
LSU ~ $50,000/y
Southern ~ $37,000/y
Tulane ~ $82,000/y
Loyola ~ $68,000/y
Requests that the Bd. of Regents study how the state can best meet the legal education needs of students and the economic and workforce development needs of the Shreveport-Bossier region, including meeting these needs through establishing a campus of the Southern Univ. Law Center in Shreveport, and submit a written report of findings and recommendations to the House and Senate education committees by not later than 90 days prior to the 2020 R.S.
Shreveport does not need a diploma mill law school...and that's all this is!
I'm an asshole! What's your excuse?
School
# Applicants
Passed
Failed
LSU 135 118 (87.41%) 17 (12.59%)Loyola 104 87 (83.65%) 17 (16.35%)Southern
140
62 (44.29%) 78 (55.71%)
Tulane 76 60 (78.95%) 16 (21.05%)
Total 455
327 (71.87%)
128 (28.13%)
Of those students educated in a civil law-based school, Southern had less than half the class pass the bar...and made up well more than half of the total failures. Southern is a diploma mill that generally turns out ill-prepared students and lawyers.
I'm an asshole! What's your excuse?
Do you think that's the teachers or the quality of student they are letting in. I know when my brother applied for law school at LSU, his backup plan was Southern.
I'm guessing a lot of those students didn't meet the LSU standards and shouldn't have been in law school in the first place, but they had to become a lawyer.
All I'm saying, is maybe some of the grads heading to LSU might stay in North Louisiana if there was a campus here.
I'd love for Tech to have a Law School, but I think it would require a large endowment to do it right. I'd hate for other programs to suffer because of it.
Texas Southern had similar results https://ble.texas.gov/2018_July
I think my flaw in thinking was that I thought I could get a full college experience at LSUS. Being an undergrad compared to a Post-grad is apples and oranges. Getting an MBA is strictly business (no pun intended). You want your undergrad to also be a memorable experience. Mine wasn't.