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CSOL Has A New President

SCHOOL TAPS VETERAN DEAN AS NEXT LEADER || By FITSNEWS || Two weeks after the founders of the Charleston School of Law (CSOL) announced that the institution would accept a new class for the upcoming academic year, the school announced today that it has a new president. According to a…

SCHOOL TAPS VETERAN DEAN AS NEXT LEADER

|| By FITSNEWS || Two weeks after the founders of the Charleston School of Law (CSOL) announced that the institution would accept a new class for the upcoming academic year, the school announced today that it has a new president.

According to a news release, Joseph D. Harbaugh – dean emeritus at Nova Southeastern University Law Center and former dean of the University of Richmond School of Law – has been tapped as CSOL’s interim president.

“I am delighted Dean Harbaugh is willing to bring his decades of experience in legal education to the Charleston School of Law and I am excited at the opportunity to work closely with him to ensure a bright future for our school,” CSOL dean Andy Abrams said in the statement.  “Not only did he successfully lead two law schools for over 20 years, Dean Harbaugh has held key leadership positions in the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools.

“He brings a remarkable breadth and depth of knowledge of legal education that will benefit all of us associated with the law school, as we move into our second decade of providing a high quality, hands-on legal education,” Abrams added.

Interesting …

As readers may recall, the last CSOL president lasted less than a week on the job – reportedly stepping down due to alleged bullying by former founding partner Ed Westbrook (who spent much of the last two years attempting to block a proposed sale of the school to InfiLaw).

Hopefully with Westbrook gone, Harbaugh will stick around a little longer than that …

More to the point, hopefully state government will follow Westbrook’s lead and give up its meddling with CSOL’s future – especially its ridiculous fantasy about taking over the school as a government institution.

As we’ve stated repeatedly, state government has no business holding up this sale.  If the school’s owners wish to sell their asset to another company, that is their right.

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12 comments

Fleet June 5, 2015 at 12:21 pm

Several people I worked with got Phd’s from Nova. Management looked closely at the school and its program and quickly stopped raises for those who got a Phd from there. We used to joke that Nova spells Avon backwards.

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WSPPhD June 5, 2015 at 1:31 pm

Fleet: Where do you work? There is a proliferation of on-line, for profit schools out there now. You can pretty much buy a degree anywhere. I believe this is just another example of the decline of Western Society.

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Fleet June 5, 2015 at 1:33 pm

Retired now. Let’s just say I worked at Fits’ favorite whipping boy.

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HD June 6, 2015 at 8:56 am

You’ll have to be more specific. Folks’ “favorite whipping boy” is entirely a function of whom he was most recently paid to whip.

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Soft Sigh from Hell June 5, 2015 at 2:39 pm

“this is just another example of the decline of Western Society.”

All too true. Far too much claimed expertise is a fraud or a conceit.

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Soft Sigh from Hell June 5, 2015 at 2:35 pm

I’ve been told that the education field is rife with these, for the guaranteed raises and opportunity for promotion.

On the other hand I know a very competent worker/teacher with a masters from there.

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Closed For Business June 5, 2015 at 1:15 pm

There should be a minimum of Fifty law schools Closed in the country.

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Suicidal_JD June 5, 2015 at 8:38 pm

Law school ruined my life! I have no job and I have student loan debt that will follow me to my grave. Save yourself! DO NOT GO TO LAW SCHOOL.

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euwe max June 5, 2015 at 8:13 pm

Marco!

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Mike June 5, 2015 at 11:40 pm

Must be working for free.

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KathyGDotson June 6, 2015 at 7:07 am Reply
Jackie Chiles June 6, 2015 at 9:00 pm

One joke law school hires someone from another joke law school. No surprise.

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