HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Laura Rosenbury Stakes Her Deanship On Raising Florida’s Ranking To #35; Amidst Claims Of Sexism, Her Regime Comes Under Fire, With The Graduate Tax Program Its Flashpoint. “It is a challenge to untangle how Ms. Rosenbury, a former law professor and administrator at Washington University in St. Louis, managed to get crosswise with so many people in the space of just 15 months. Interviews with more than a dozen professors, and with alumni, administrators, and staff members, suggest that the dean’s change agenda has created the impression that she sees the law school and many of its inhabitants as problems to be solved rather than as assets to be mobilized.”
That’s an easy mistake to make, but a toxic one.