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Another law dean takes top college post with Barnard hire
(Reuters) – No less than three longtime U.S. regulation faculty deans have been named to liberal arts faculty presidencies in current weeks, including to the lengthy checklist of authorized teachers who’ve risen to the highest submit at schools and universities through the years.
The newest is Laura Rosenbury, who on Thursday was named incoming president of Columbia College’s all-women’s Barnard Faculty in New York. Rosenbury since 2015 has led the College of Florida Levin Faculty of Legislation, which is ranked No. 21 by U.S. Information & World Report.
A month in the past Mount Holyoke Faculty, different distinguished ladies’s establishment in Massachusetts, stated Howard College regulation dean Danielle Ren Holley will turn into its president in July. Holley was dean for 9 years at Howard, which is the highest-ranked regulation faculty at a traditionally Black faculty or college.
Earlier this month, Maine’s Bates Faculty stated that College of Minnesota regulation dean Garry Jenkins will turn into its president in July after main the No. 21-ranked regulation faculty for seven years.
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Each Jenkins and Holley would be the first Black presidents of their new establishments—reflecting the continuing diversification of the regulation dean ranks. A 2022 examine by the Affiliation and American Legislation Colleges discovered that girls comprised 41% of regulation deans, up from 18% in 2005, and 31% had been folks of coloration, a rise from 13% in 2005.
Jennifer Mnookin, the previous dean of the College of California at Los Angeles College of Legislation, turned chancellor of the College of Wisconsin-Madison in August. The previous regulation deans at Boston Faculty and Southern Methodist College additionally took up faculty presidencies final summer time.
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