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re: Apparently Racism Abounds at LSU Law - HuffPost Article Penned by Student
Posted on 12/21/14 at 9:51 am to SCTmo
Posted on 12/21/14 at 9:51 am to SCTmo
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I always found it disturbing that the school felt they needed to provide a remedial course at a professional school. Is this common at other law schools?
no idea. it became an issue when i was there when it was discovered. people were told, basically, that LSU was under threats to lose its accreditation by the ABA. it's not even that LSU is discriminating against minorities, professional grad schools do the exact opposite across the board.
so harvard recruits UT-Austin-level students. UT-Austin recruits LSU-level students. LSU has to recruit Southern-level students. in order to ensure that these unqualified students don't fail out (and threaten accreditation), the school has to cater to them early and often. there is a program BEFORE the semester starts as well for incoming students. there was a student in my legal writing class who had problems keeping up who i was trying to help who told me about them. she told me knowing she was leaving so she didn't care about the secrecy.
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Posted on 12/21/14 at 9:58 am to SlowFlowPro
and let me be clear. i don't give a frick about the classes. i just had to point that stuff out in response to the article claiming LSU law is racist. LSU law goes out of its way to cater to minority students who often are unqualified (and LSU law is not some great law school, so i mean we're talking about students with serious issues for any grad school program).
LSU can only do so much to increase minority enrollment. LSU can only do so much to increase the minority representation of its faculty, as the majority of teachers at the school are civilian. there are simply only so many civilian scholars in the United States, and you're mainly drawing from LSU itself. that means you're drawing from the small minority population of the LSU law student body.
so LSU law has to recruit minority profs from common law. not only is this difficult (same issue as students. minority profs know they're worth their weight in gold so they go for superior programs, so LSU has to rely on lesser candidates or pay a frick ton of money). LSU is a stepping stone program for minority professors. 2 black profs while i was there were hired by other schools (one became a dean).
also, i'm no big sunshine pumper for LSU law. but i will defend them on this issue b/c there is little they can do
LSU can only do so much to increase minority enrollment. LSU can only do so much to increase the minority representation of its faculty, as the majority of teachers at the school are civilian. there are simply only so many civilian scholars in the United States, and you're mainly drawing from LSU itself. that means you're drawing from the small minority population of the LSU law student body.
so LSU law has to recruit minority profs from common law. not only is this difficult (same issue as students. minority profs know they're worth their weight in gold so they go for superior programs, so LSU has to rely on lesser candidates or pay a frick ton of money). LSU is a stepping stone program for minority professors. 2 black profs while i was there were hired by other schools (one became a dean).
also, i'm no big sunshine pumper for LSU law. but i will defend them on this issue b/c there is little they can do
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