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Southern New England Law Dean Prepares for Battle over Merger Plan

Posted Nov 6, 2009, 08:41 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss

Southern New England law school dean Robert Ward is preparing for battle over his school’s plan to merge with the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and become the state’s first public law school.

Ward defended his school during a tour of the campus with a Boston Globe reporter.

Ward says the idea is to gain ABA accreditation for his school while keeping tuition low. Tuition and fees at the school would be increased only slightly to $23,500, about half the cost of the Suffolk University and New England law schools.

Southern New England would donate its campus and assets to the University of Massachusetts in an offer valued at about… Continue reading...



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