Priority: Attract and recruit an ethical and academically accomplished student body
with a wide range of backgrounds and life experiences.
Goals:
Continue to improve the Law School's regional and national reputation by increasing
the academic credentials of incoming students.
Increase and manage scholarship funds to attract driven and ethical students from
all backgrounds who demonstrate exceptional academic and professional potential.
Ensure active outreach to prospective students from historically-underserved communities.
Continue developing promotional materials, social media presence, and the aesthetics
of the facilities to reflect the Law School's commitment to a supportive and welcoming
experience for all applicants and matriculants.
Priority: Offer a comprehensive curriculum that fulfills the demands of a changing
legal profession and ensures that graduates are practice-ready.
Goals:
Encourage and support the use of technology in classroom instruction, including online
education, and prepare students to use emerging technology in law practice.
Provide more opportunities for experiential learning through simulations, clinics,
faculty-supervised externships and doctrinal courses.
Identify curriculum gaps and potential solutions to respond to market demands in areas
of career opportunity.
Develop and market programs of strategic interest.
Foster an educational environment that promotes professional values and ethics, including
public service.
Provide more “writing across the curriculum” opportunities to train students to be
strong researchers, writers, advocates, and thinkers.
Priority: Maintain an excellent faculty and foster innovative and influential legal
research and scholarship.
Goals:
Continue to recruit and retain an excellent faculty and support their role to be great
legal educators to our students and innovative scholars to the legal intellectual
community.
Take steps to increase the quality, influence, and amount of our faculty scholarship.
Continue to value a variety of legal scholarship.
Heighten our state, regional, national, and international reputation relating to our
faculty scholarship.
Enhance our external communications, including our web and social media presence,
relating to faculty scholarship.
Priority: Promote student success and well-being and foster an environment of support
between and among faculty, students, and staff.
Goals:
Create a student-centered learning environment that highlights student success.
Increase the availability of mental health and wellness resources at the Office for
Student Life.
Create a dynamic mentoring system through faculty advisors, administrators, and peer
mentors to ensure that everyone feels welcome and supported at the law school.
Assist with the transition to the legal profession by providing students with opportunities
to learn about issues faced by legal professionals.
Support student organizations through increased institutional resources.
Promote camaraderie between the faculty and students through school-sponsored events
with increased student access to faculty in settings outside of the classroom.
Empower students to be community leaders, agents of needed reform and change, and
exemplars of ethical conflict resolution.
Create a supportive excellence framework via the Office for Student Life that is considerate
of all students in order to affirm the needs and experiences of all students.
Enhance and support bar preparation initiatives to improve student success on the
bar exam.
Priority: Enhance our institutional reputation, increase our financial resources,
and strengthen our ties with our alumni so that the school has deeper and more varied
resources to use in fulfilling our mission.
Goals:
Enhance our web and social media presence to showcase our strengths and accomplishments.
Continue to enhance our state, regional, and national reputation through recruiting
students and faculty who will enhance our reputation and contribute to varied perspectives;
continuing to improve our placement and bar passage results; promoting our distinctive
and innovative programs and centers; and increasing our U.S. News & World Report ranking.
Increase private fundraising through alumni engagement.
Continue to be strategic in our use of financial and other resources.
Enhance our alumni engagement by enhancing our reputation; increasing alumni support
(both financial and non-financial); and enhancing the student experience by intentional
interaction with alumni.
Priority: Advance excellence by promoting respect, professionalism, resilience, and
opportunity through fostering a welcoming, supportive, and engaged Law School culture
and community for everyone.
Goals:
Provide additional resources and programming to promote respect, professionalism,
resilience, and opportunity.
Present a clear and visible message about the importance of culture and community
in a myriad of ways.
Increase resources and programming designed to better foster a welcoming, supportive,
and engaged Law School culture and community for everyone.
Expand support for all students, including first-generation college students attending
law school, to increase everyone’s opportunities for success.
