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Eating Our Cake and Having It, Too: Why Real Change Is So Difficult in Law Schools

Nancy B. Rapoport, University of Houston Law Center (moving to Boyd School of Law, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas, in summer 2007

Abstract

This essay discusses the experiences of one law school trying to integrate the rankings into its strategic plan. It discusses the intersection of considerations designed to improve the rankings with considerations designed to improve the school as a whole, and it mentions the difficulties inherent in strategic planning in an academic environment.

Suggested Citation

Nancy B. Rapoport. "Eating Our Cake and Having It, Too: Why Real Change Is So Difficult in Law Schools" Indiana Law Journal 81 (2006): 359-374.