Neeli Bendapudi addresses a press conference in State College after being named Penn State's next president last December. She has been on the job six months.As Pennsylvania State University continues to face a deficit, President Neeli Bendapudi recommended Tuesday a reunification of its two law schools, one in Dickinson and the other at University Park, which were split just eight years ago.
“As I started to look at it along with the senior leadership team here, it became increasingly evident that the two-law school model where we have two units competing with one another under the Penn State umbrella is not the best approach,” Bendapudi said. “Concentrating our resources would allow us to build a much stronger law school and actually offer students a much more robust experience.”
during her interview process, she said. Penn State Law also had been interviewing candidates for dean this fall, and she decided it would not be ethical to hire someone, knowing that a consolidation was being contemplated.» READ MORE:Penn State acquired the Dickinson School of Law in 1997, for the first time giving the state flagship university a law school. It opened a second campus of Dickinson Law at University Park in 2006, with the two operating under one umbrella.