Bing's President Search

[danefan]

Bing is intent on starting a law school and their presidential search is very clear on that:

 

http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20101208/NEWS01/12080425/BU+candidate+says+law+school++growth+have+to+be+done+strategically

 

Perhaps the most direct question from a faculty member: "When would you start building a law school?"

 

Alger, who sits on the American Bar Association's Accreditation Committee, which oversees the accreditation of the nation's law schools, didn't give a date but said he could certainly help facilitate the conversation. The conversation, he said, wouldn't be easy.

 

 

So is UA going to do anything or just let its peers move ahead?

[Clickclack]

Bing is intent on starting a law school and their presidential search is very clear on that:

 

http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20101208/NEWS01/12080425/BU+candidate+says+law+school++growth+have+to+be+done+strategically

 

Perhaps the most direct question from a faculty member: "When would you start building a law school?"

 

Alger, who sits on the American Bar Association's Accreditation Committee, which oversees the accreditation of the nation's law schools, didn't give a date but said he could certainly help facilitate the conversation. The conversation, he said, wouldn't be easy.

 

 

So is UA going to do anything or just let its peers move ahead?

 

They can intend to open a new law-school but they will face a hurricane of opposition.

[danefan]

Bing is intent on starting a law school and their presidential search is very clear on that:

 

http://www.pressconn...e+strategically

 

Perhaps the most direct question from a faculty member: "When would you start building a law school?"

 

Alger, who sits on the American Bar Association's Accreditation Committee, which oversees the accreditation of the nation's law schools, didn't give a date but said he could certainly help facilitate the conversation. The conversation, he said, wouldn't be easy.

 

 

So is UA going to do anything or just let its peers move ahead?

 

They can intend to open a new law-school but they will face a hurricane of opposition.

 

SBU got all the money they wanted for their law school ($45 million).

[SupaDane]

Bing is intent on starting a law school and their presidential search is very clear on that:

 

http://www.pressconn...e+strategically

 

Perhaps the most direct question from a faculty member: "When would you start building a law school?"

 

Alger, who sits on the American Bar Association's Accreditation Committee, which oversees the accreditation of the nation's law schools, didn't give a date but said he could certainly help facilitate the conversation. The conversation, he said, wouldn't be easy.

 

 

So is UA going to do anything or just let its peers move ahead?

 

They can intend to open a new law-school but they will face a hurricane of opposition.

 

SBU got all the money they wanted for their law school ($45 million).

 

I would love UA to get a Med School, Dental School and Law School. But the Union already has Albany Law, Med and pharmacy, would we be the public alternative?

University at Albany Medical Center does have a ring to it!

[alum73]

We have joint programs with Albany Law, Albany Med, RPI , Optometry, etc.

 

http://www.albany.edu/undergraduate_bulletin/joint_degree.html

[Clickclack]

We have joint programs with Albany Law, Albany Med, RPI , Optometry, etc.

 

http://www.albany.edu/undergraduate_bulletin/joint_degree.html

 

We need to develop closer ties to those schools.

[danefan]

We have joint programs with Albany Law, Albany Med, RPI , Optometry, etc.

 

http://www.albany.ed...int_degree.html

 

We need to develop closer ties to those schools.

 

 

We need to just absorb them all. Close ties aren't enough, IMO.

[Clickclack]

We have joint programs with Albany Law, Albany Med, RPI , Optometry, etc.

 

http://www.albany.ed...int_degree.html

 

We need to develop closer ties to those schools.

 

 

We need to just absorb them all. Close ties aren't enough, IMO.

 

Fair enough but do you think those schools would be up for it? Yeah, needless to say if we absorbed the medical and law schools that it would be a HUGE deal for the school but how do you pull that off? Someone should start scheming!

[danefan]

We have joint programs with Albany Law, Albany Med, RPI , Optometry, etc.

 

http://www.albany.ed...int_degree.html

 

We need to develop closer ties to those schools.

 

 

We need to just absorb them all. Close ties aren't enough, IMO.

 

Fair enough but do you think those schools would be up for it? Yeah, needless to say if we absorbed the medical and law schools that it would be a HUGE deal for the school but how do you pull that off? Someone should start scheming!

 

I have no clue about the Med School but a lot of law school alumni would be in favor of it for the law school. The Law School is also getting a new dean this year and it would be perfect timing. Its also what SBU did - purchase a small private law school. Albany Law is a much stronger law school then the only SBU bought, but I think its definitely possible.

 

the Pharmacy school is a beast in an of itself. They have a 6-year undergrad/pharmacy program that is one of the best in the Northeast. They also have dorms, campus center, etc. so absorbing that would make it difficult but a really great thing for UA. In fact, absorbing the Med/Law/Pharamcy schools would be an unbelievable thing for UA. It would add a fourth campus (University Heights) and would do absolute wonders for student attraction.

 

The question really is can you do it without bogging down the Med and Pharamcy schools into the NYS budget process. Until we get SUNY FLex I don't see any way. The law school could easily switch over to a budget/state tuition system because its a small self-contained unit.

[Michigan_Dane]

Adding Albany Law is critical to UA's growth. I emailed the Albany Law Dean last year. He seemed to agree merging the schools would be a good idea. The issue seemed to be with the alumni. He's A Michigan grad. He agreed that Michigan Law was greater because it was part of U of Michigan. New York doesn't need more law schools but it does need more state law schools. That means acquisition. The new governor is an Albany Law grad. He could make it happen if he wanted to do so. You don't get what you don't work for. We need leadership to push for it. It is win-win.

[Michigan_Dane]

Has anyone else here ever lived outside of New York? Why is New York so backward? We never do anything the same way as any other state. How can New York have the most law schools in the country but only 1 state law school. How is it Michigan, California, Carolina all have such great state universities and New York looks at state universities with such contempt? How can this liberal state with all their rent control and welfare be so against state universities? What a dichotomy!

[UAalum72]

Goes back to John Jay, who believed the state should not be involved in higher education; Ezra Cornell persuading the legislature to charter a new, private university to be the state's land-grant, instead of the proposed University of Albany with Joseph Henry and Louis Aggasiz on the faculty; Ivy-league-educated governors; and don't let the conservatives off the hook, god forbid a public institution be allowed to spend taxpayer money without oversight so they don't squander it.

 

Don't forget the opinion on all the private school forums that state schools have it so easy because they've got all that state money behind them.