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Date: January 5th, 2006 1:22 AM Author: navy antidepressant drug http://www.sptimes.com/2005/05/17/State/At_FAMU_law__blacks_a.shtml
Excerpt: At FAMU law, blacks a minority Supporters of the new law school said it would boost the percentage of black students entering Florida law schools. It hasn't happened. By DAVID KARP, Times Staff Writer Published May 17, 2005
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[Times photo: John Pendygraft] Members of the inaugural class at FAMU's law school adjust their tassels for a group photo during the ceremony earlier this month at the Orlando Expo Center where they received their doctoral hoods. Blacks were a minority of graduates.
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ORLANDO - Historically black Florida A&M University celebrated a law school graduation this month, its first in 37 years.
"This is the beginning of a new history," declared FAMU president Castell Bryant.
And it was - but not the history many expected to be written.
For the first time, black students did not make up the majority of a FAMU graduating class.
Enrollment at the new FAMU law school is 44 percent white and 12 percent Hispanic. Black students make up just 36 percent of the student body.
Those percentages are not what Florida lawmakers had in mind when they agreed in 2000 to re-establish the law school, which had been shuttered by the state in 1968 after the beginning of court-ordered integration.
FAMU supporters had promised the school would boost the small percentage of black lawyers in Florida. Instead, the percentage of black students entering Florida law schools has dropped since 2002, when FAMU opened its doors.
And racial diversity at Florida's older, already established law schools also is declining.
"The bottom line appears to be that we are redistributing fundamentally the same number of African-American applicants," said Joseph Harbaugh, the law school dean at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, which has seen its percentage of entering black law students shrink from 12.4 percent three years ago to 5.4 percent today.
The numbers are similar at the University of Florida, where the number of black first-year law students dropped by half this fall. The law schools at Florida State University and the University of Miami also have seen declines.
FAMU was expected to offset those losses by expanding the pool of black law school applicants. But it was built in Orlando, where it has drawn many white and Hispanic students.
Law school dean Percy Luney Jr. said he hears from FAMU alumni who want the school to be predominantly black. But he can't do that, he said. It would be wrong, and it would hurt the school's efforts to build a national reputation.
"I know there are people who think I'm not doing the service I'm supposed to do because I am not admitting more black students," Luney said in an interview. "But I cannot admit black students who do not have a strong likelihood of passing the Bar."
"I think that is the inherent conflict we have. And I don't know how we get beyond that."
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Date: January 5th, 2006 1:58 AM Author: salmon puppy pisswyrm i love how the article mentions that UF wooed students away from top schools like Yale and Berkeley. The likelihood of wooing a student from Yale is unlikely. And it's the last time that those three schools will be mentioned in the same sentence. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=333280&forum_id=2#4738851) |
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Date: January 5th, 2006 12:41 PM Author: navy antidepressant drug bump (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=333280&forum_id=2#4740609) |
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Date: January 5th, 2006 1:09 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle bearded station Students who got their undergraduate degrees from FAMU felt a black student should have been chosen. For them, attending the law school was not just about getting a degree. It was about resurrecting a mistreated black institution so it could enhance the status of black Americans.
They felt the school should primarily assist blacks - not whites taking advantage of a new low-cost school in Orlando.>>>>
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Date: January 5th, 2006 12:46 PM Author: comical den organic girlfriend Law school dean Percy Luney Jr. said he hears from FAMU alumni who want the school to be predominantly black. But he can't do that, he said. It would be wrong, and it would hurt the school's efforts to build a national reputation.
"I know there are people who think I'm not doing the service I'm supposed to do because I am not admitting more black students," Luney said in an interview. "But I cannot admit black students who do not have a strong likelihood of passing the Bar."
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