Promoting Diversity

Paul Holland and I were the luncheon speakers on Leading Change in Legal Education: The Carnegie Study, Educating Lawyers and the book by Roy Stuckey, Best Practices in Legal Education at the Seattle University / SALT Deanship workshop, “ Promoting Diversity in Deanships”, September 28, 2007. (EXCELLENT conference, by the way) Since the conference was focused on increasing the number of deans of color in the legal academy, I tried to answer the question of why a dean, and particularly, a dean of color, should care about the ideas in both book as an issue relevant to minority law students. Here are some thoughts. Continue reading