Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law is dealing with a notice of noncompliance from the legal academia accrediting authority, the American Bar Association. The notice, dated August 31, reportedly dinged Cleveland-Marshall for the school’s financial condition.
Specifically, the law school was found to be out of compliance with Standards 202(a), (c), and (d). Those all deal with a law school’s finances:
Under 202(a), a law school’s financial resources must be sufficient to operate in compliance with the standards. Standards 202(c) and (d) state that a law school is not in compliance if its current or anticipated financial conditions are expected to have a “negative and material effect” on carrying out a legal education program.
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Cleveland-Marshall’s dean, Lee Fisher, said, “We take this matter seriously, and we are working to directly address the issues.” The school plans to file a response by October 1, and said they’re confident the ABA will find Cleveland-Marshall in compliance when they meet in November.
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