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Senate panel adopts amendment but defers final action on law‑school consolidation bill after accreditation concerns
Summary
Senate Education Committee adopted an amendment to SB 370 that preserves separate deans for the two University of Arkansas law schools while keeping provisions to consolidate certain administrative functions; witnesses clashed over accreditation risk and projected savings.
Senator Mark Johnson asked the Senate Education Committee on behalf of SB 370 to permit consolidation of overlapping administrative functions between the University of Arkansas Fayetteville law school and the UALR Bowen School of Law while keeping both schools and their deans intact.
Supporters, including Rick Peltz Steele, a law professor who authored a 2011 white paper cited by the sponsor,…
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