http://www.brooklaw.edu/newsandevents/news/2014/04-03-2014.aspx?
The Announcement: The 83rd “best” law school in the country - according to Vagina Bob Morse of US “News” & World Report - published a press release labeled “Brooklyn Law School Announces 15% Tuition Cut, Initiatives to Address Law School Accessibility and Affordability” on March 2, 2014. Try to read the following excerpt, without laughing your ass off:
“Brooklyn Law School’s (BLS) Board of Trustees today announced a 15 percent across-the-board tuition reduction, beginning in the 2015-2016 academic year. The cost reduction program further enhances an evolving package of student-centric initiatives designed to address the national challenges of law school accessibility, affordability, and quality.
Today’s announcement follows last year’s decision by BLS to freeze 2014 tuitions at 2013 levels. It marks an aggressive effort to address law school affordability and signals a significant step toward greater accessibility and diversity in legal education, according to Nicholas W. Allard, Joseph Crea Dean and Professor of Law.” [Emphasis mine]
Of course, the cockroaches seek to spin this as a benevolent move from a financially-sound in$TTiTTion of “higher learning.” Yes, because law schools truly care about their victims, right?!?! By the way, the term “student-centric” is fabricated nonsense. Anyone who buys this garbage should be immediately declared too dumb to enter into a contract.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/04/03/brooklyn-law-school-plans-to-cut-tuition-by-15-percent/
Other Coverage: On April 3, 2014, CBS New York, i.e. WCBS 880, ran a segment from Alex Silverman labeled “Brooklyn Law School Plans to Cut Tuition by 15 Percent.” Look at this opening:
“The cost of an education seems like it’s rising by the minute, but one law school in New York City is lowering tuition.
Brooklyn Law School plans to cut tuition by 15 percent to $45,850 a year, starting next fall. It currently is nearly $54,000.
Brooklyn Law School Dean Nicholas Allard said prospective students are terrified of taking on enormous debt.
“There’s too few people in America who can either afford to go to law school or who can afford a lawyer,” Allard told 1010 WINS. “The skyrocketing tuitions at law schools are what’s keeping many people who are well-qualified from entering law school and they’re also contributing directly to the high cost of legal services for newly-minted lawyers.”
The private institution’s applications have declined since before the recession. He didn’t provide numbers. The school currently has about 1,200 students.” [Emphasis mine]
Then again, Cockroach Joshua Ray Adams - from the Crooklyn Law Class of 2013 - is fine with owing $300K in total student debt, while also admitting that he makes less than $30K per year. How do you like this announcement from your ABA-accredited cesspool, Bitch?!?!
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/05/business/bold-bid-to-combat-a-crisis-in-legal-education.html?_r=0
The New York Times featured James B. Stewart’s piece, “A Bold Bid to Combat a Crisis in Legal Education” - on March 4, 2014. Read this portion:
“Brooklyn Law School is hardly alone in facing a crisis in legal education. Five law schools have closed in the last two years, more than at any other time in American history.
But this week, it announced that it was taking some unusually bold steps to confront the crisis: The school is cutting tuition and abandoning what has become a widespread obsession with climbing the ladder of national law school rankings.
The combination of slumping demand for lawyers and ever-rising tuition has cast a pall on law school applications, which fell to 54,000 last year, from 100,000 in 2004. A generation of new lawyers is struggling under a crushing debt burden.“Every law school dean is talking about this, and every bar association is talking about this issue,” the dean of Brooklyn Law School, Nicholas Allard, told me this week.” [Emphasis mine]
Remember when mainstream news publications were not using terms as “crushing debt burden” when describing “legal education”? It is great to see that we have been so effective in kicking the swine’s asses, armed with the truth.
http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/grad-debt-rankings/page+4
Average Law Student Indebtedness:USN&WR lists the average law student indebtedness - for those members of the Crooklyn Law Class of 2013 who incurred debt for law school - as $109,914. Furthermore, 76 percent of this commode’s 2013 class took on such putrid debt. Remember that this figure does not include undergraduate debt – and it also does not take accrued interest into account, while the student is enrolled.
Conclusion: This tuition reduction is a mere marketing ploy, designed to foster some positive attention from the media and potential applicants. If the rats running this horrendous sewage pit really cared about the students, then they would slash tuition to around $15K per year. However, that would require actual sacrifice on the part of these “educators.”
Again, this cut does not go into effect until the 2015-2016 school year. Plus, the filthy commode will still be charging those poor bastards/students a sum of $45,850 in annual tuition. Yes, how gracious of them, huh?!?! Instead of shoving a Louisville Slugger up your anus, Brooklyn Law Sewer will only cram a New York City phone book up your ass. The result is essentially the same for the recipient.