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Graglia, Lino A. – Academic Questions, 2011
When the author entered Columbia Law School in 1951, first-year tuition was $600--$5082.07 in today's money (according to the U.S. Department of Labor's CPI inflation calculator). Today (with some additional compulsory payments) it is over $50,000. How could this have happened? Law schools were once noted for providing inexpensive education, what…
Descriptors: Law Schools, Costs, Tuition, Educational Change
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Lewis, Lionel S. – Academic Questions, 2005
This account of an academic lawsuit qualifies as a horror story. A mediocre minority student abuses civil rights and ADA protections to win a massive monetary award against his school on the flimsiest of evidence. Jaded lawyers for the state university represent powerless faculty defendants in court, torpidly allowing the jury to throw 50 years of…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy, Court Litigation, College Faculty