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South
Texas
College
of Law
Annotations
Non-Profit Org.
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Houston, Texas
Permit 8451
Volume X, Number 1
1303 San Jacinto, Houston, Texas 77002
July 1984
Fall tuition
increases
By Barbara Pusch
Editor
Tuition is increasing to $145 an
hour for Fall Semester in order to
pay for 14 new full-time profes-
sors, according to Dean Garland
R. Walker.
The increase in the number of
full-time professors was mandated
by the Council on Legal Educa-
tion of the American Bar Associa-
tion, "which is the accreditation
agency for law school," the Dean
said. r
Adjunct professors are not in-
cluded in the ABA's count when a
student/professor ratio is deter-
mined for accreditation purposes.
Adjunct professors "are for the
enrichment of (the college's) of-
ferings," Dean Walker said.
With the new professors who
will join the faculty in the fall,
"the student/faculty ratio is 1 to
23, which does not include ad-
ministration," he said.
Five of the new faculty
members currently are full-time
library personnel. In the Fall,
those individuals will be teaching
their areas of specialization as part
See Tuition page 4
"J hope to find my country in the right;
however, I will stand by her, right or wrong."
— John Jordan Crittenden
on the Mexican War
Photo by Kevin Berry
Curriculum changes
scheduled for Fall
The new members of the Honor Court were selected May 30 by the Student Bar Association. Pictured above (left to
right) are Chief Justice Morris Weiss, Associate Justices Joe Garnett and Lori Goldman, and Prosecutor Susie
Johnson (standing). See related story page 4.
Photo by Kevin Berry
By William Yanger
Assistant Editor
Several curriculum changes for
Fall Semester 1984 were an-
nounced by Dean Garland R.
Walker.
The changes affect nine
courses, in addition to seminars.
One new course, Trust Law, has
been added to the curriculum.
Each of the changes was re-
commended and unanimously ap-
proved by the South Texas Col-
lege of Law Curriculum Commit-
tee, chaired by assistant Dean
John F. Ensle.
The committee has been con-
ducting a study of STCL's cur-
riculum since 1979, Dean Ensle
said. The study is on-going, he ad-
ded, "and the committee en-
courages student input."
The courses affected for Fall
Semester are Legal Research and
Writing I, Procedure I, Remedies,
Criminal Procedure, Law Jour-
nal, Legal Research and Writing
II, all seminars, International
Law, and Legal Ethics, which now
is titled Professional Responsibili-
ty.
In revamping certain areas of
the curriculum, the committee
considered a number of factors,
some of which involve policy deci-
sions, Dean Ensle said.
"Students are entitled to know,
and need to know, the reasons for
the changes which have been made
and which are embodied in the
supplement to the new catalog,"
he said.
The committee focused on
"eliminating overlapping subject
matter, revising course content,
correcting excessive allocation of
semester hours' credit to areas of
limited significance, offering new
courses mandated by changes in
our jurisprudence, increasing the
time devoted by our students to
basic subjects, Bar examination
subjects and subjects of current
importance to prospective law-
yers; and whether certain courses
should be graded on a pass/fail or
a numerical basis," said Dean En-
sle.
Legal Research and Writing I:
Perhaps the closest scrutiny and
the greatest modification was
given to Legal Research and Writ-
ing I.
In an effort to quell the trend of
relegating this course "to an in-
ferior position within the cur-
riculum" and to reverse a process
"conducive to inconsistency and
ineffective quality instruction,"
Dean Ensle said the committee has
set in motion a plan he considers
to be "one of the most important
See Curriculum page 4
Health law program
offered at South Texas
By Barbara Pusch
Editor
Students who intend to special-
ize in health law now have the op-
portunity to participate as interns
in law firms and hospitals through
a joint program of South Texas
College of Law and Trinity Uni-
versity in San Antonio, according
to Dr. Edward P. Richards, III,
STCL professor and director of
the new program.
The joint program is titled the
Institute of Preventive Law and
Medicine. Spearheaded by Dr.
Richards, it became official in
May.
"What we would like to do is
train students so they can be good
in-house counsel," Dr. Richards
said.
Toward that end, STCL
students involved in the program
will be placed with the adminis-
trative staffs of area hospitals on
Dr. Edward P. Richards, III.
Photo by Kevin Berry
an internship basis, through Trini-
ty University's internship pro-
gram.
Trinity has a health care ad-
ministration graduate level pro-
gram which leads to a masters
See Health page 7
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