HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Wash U/St. Louis eliminates summer salaries for tenured faculty. “That’s rather dramatic for a law school regularly in the top 25 in the U.S., and one that is part of a very wealthy parent university (although its wealth, I gather, is tied up heavily with the [top] medical and [the middling] business schools).”

Given that law school applications are currently booming, I wonder about this. It can’t just be economic exigency.