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Law school accreditation
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Ashes and the Phoenix.
The following six excerpts are from my book manuscript (a memoir in progress) tentatively titled Crystallizing: The Accreditation Era of Northwestern School of Lewis & Clark Law School (1965-1974). The excerpts focus on the first five or six years of the forty-year old Environmental Law. The segments, taken out of context, will be better understood with these background materials:
1) My account of that era is a memoir. I lived the times as one of the five original faculty. The text, therefore, is written in first-person, from my witness and research. 2) The era began in 1965 when two venerable colleges merged--one a law school and the other a liberal arts and sciences school. Both traced their origins back to Oregon pioneer times in the 1800s. Joined they became contractually titled Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College. 3) In spite of its veneration and strong acceptance in the bench and bar of Oregon, the law school had never bothered to become recognized by the two national law school accrediting agencies: the American Bar Association (ALIA) and the American Association of Law Schools (AALS). Now, in 1966, the school began upon that quest. 4) Among many accrediting requirements was the need for building a law school complex. The law school and its evening education never had a home of its own. It had operated out of various rented quarters in downtown Portland. Having moved to the Lewis and Clark campus, the law school still did not have its own building complex. Nighttime law education was temporarily spread throughout the campus, once undergrad classes were put to bed Schooling was conducted in chemistry, literature, and other liberal arts and sciences classrooms. The 7000-book law library was in the basement of a music hall. Law school headquarters were improvised in two residential homes owned by the college and shared by the language department. A law dean, associate dean, f...See the full content of this document
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