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Education

May 29, 2014

Under new dean, struggling law school sees improvement

In just under a year, University of La Verne College of Law Dean Gilbert A. Holmes has implemented several aggressive changes. Recently, the school learned it garnered an 87 percent bar passage rate for first-time test takers.


By Katie Lucia


Daily Journal Staff Writer


When Gilbert A. Holmes took charge of the struggling University of La Verne College of Law last year, the school grappled with plunging enrollment, accreditation woes and years of uncertainty in its top administrator.


The Ontario-based campus had been stripped of its accreditation by the American Bar Association in 2011 and the dean at the time resigned several months later. Enrollment dropped from 28...

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