Our local lawyer factory has received some good news.Last week, U.S. News and World Reports (a.k.a the BCS of the law school world) released their 2009 rankings of the top law schools in the country, and Boyd moved up (3) (13) places to (75) on the list, now sitting comfortably in second-tier territory.
Boyd issued a press release touting the achievement that contained some curious language:
We are delighted that the good work we are doing at the Boyd School of Law is recognized by this survey, however imperfect the survey is.
The release went on to explain what exactly Boyd plans to do to continue their upward movement in the rankings. We're no experts on USN&WR optimization techniques, but we're pretty sure that slamming the methodology of the survey in a press release is one way to ensure that your upward movement won't continue.
Still, a hearty congratulations is due to Boyd's students and staff ... good work. Looks like that $339,560.00 might be paying off after all.
http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2009/04/a-ranking-using-us-news-data-but-without.html
ReplyDeleteIt's 13 spots - last year it was tied with a couple others at 88, now it's 75. I'm sure '3' was just a typo.
ReplyDeleteThis should give lots of Boyd grads and soon-to-be-grads some false hope.
ReplyDeleteNot that going to a big city to work for a presigious law firm is th be-all end-all, but if that's what you want to do - pick the city you want to work in, go to any law school in or near that city, and graduate in the top 10% of your class. If you want to work for Lionel Sawyer, graduate in the to0 10% at Boyd.
and if you want to work for KKBRF get in your DeLorean and drive 88 mph.
ReplyDeletelol @ 4:58. And if all goes according to plan, you'll find yourself back in a world where JV wouldn't dream of rescinding offers and kids in the top 10% actually consider LSC.
ReplyDeleteHow to jump 13 places in the law school rankings.
ReplyDelete1) Dramatically increase tuition while cutting classes and services.
2) Force out as many competent staff and faculty members as you can.
3) Ignore your students or better yet, treat them with outright contempt at every opportunity.
4) Hire lots of radical lesbian professors and have them push their agenda onto the students at every opportunity.
@6:02 - Wow; I haven't heard sniveling about the big bad "radical lesbian professors" since Ken Ward got chased out of town for being even too big of a rabid bigot for the R-J.
ReplyDeleteSorry the lesbians are scaring you...
I love lesbians as much as the next guy, but to be subjected to the same political indoctrination presented as fact over and over again for 3 years is tiresome. Boyd has made a lot of attempts to have a faculty that looks diverse, but the ideology is largely homogeneous and, frankly, intolerant.
ReplyDeleteBut Rapoport says rankings don't matter...
ReplyDeleteOnly 61 more spots to go for it to actually matter . . .
ReplyDeleteI love how the dean is praising a program that he and a bunch of other professors what to do away with. “The part-time ranking reflects our commitment to having very strong students in our part-time division taught by the same faculty that teaches in the full-time division,” White said.
ReplyDeleteIf Boyd values its part-time program, why does it give the day students better teachers, better course selection and better student/faculty ratios???????????
ReplyDeleteBecause no one cares about the night program...especially the day students. As for the lesbian professors, most of them are fair and balanced when it comes to grading if you can justify your position.
ReplyDeleteWho goes to the night program? In fact, I hate anyone who ever went to a night program!
ReplyDeleteChief Justice Warren Burger graduated from a part-time night program. Of course, he's a loser.
ReplyDeletemmmmm, burger!
ReplyDeleteBurger was political hack appointment by the very paranoid Richard Nixon. He is a joke and a sad footnote in the history of the Supreme Court. Did not know he was a night program product, but it figures.
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