Student Retention

At the last faculty meeting Dean Gomez-Velez told the faculty that student retention is a problem at CUNY Law.

It is interesting that the Dean was raising this issue just past the middle of the semester, a point where there is little (other than grade inflation) that professors can do about how a class is going.

Is this an opportunity for CUNY to have a real discussion about the importance of good teaching and its effect on bar passage, the academic standing policy, retention and our commitment to public interest law?