Above The Law Reports
Penn State students received an all-school email at 6:06 p.m. on Monday announcing an “important meeting” the next day at 1 p.m. No further details. Not exactly the sort of anxiety-inducing event to drop on students a week before finals. There had been an ongoing search for a new dean… maybe that was it?
It wasn’t.
In fact, the dean search has been canceled. Instead, Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi announced that the two law schools in the system: Penn State Law at University Park and Penn State Dickinson Law in Carlisle will be combined into a single law school. The shell-shocked audience had 10 minutes to ask any questions they had over the news they hadn’t begun to process. The president then left “at 1:20 on the dot” according to a Penn State student on Reddit.
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https://abovethelaw.com/2022/11/law-school-merger-announcement-shocks-students/
