The Chroncile of Higher Education is reporting that the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar will be recognized as the sole accreditor of American law schools for the next 18 months, rather than for five years, the standard usually agreed to by the department’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity. Staff members of the advisory committee cited concerns that the bar association’s accrediting council has no controls or rules in place to ensure the consistent application of its diversity standards.
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