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...This past spring, 25 of 72 eligible Law School employees accepted buyouts from the University. Administrators further reduced the personnel budget by eliminating some vacant positions and visiting faculty appointments, freezing faculty and non-union staff salaries, and slashing faculty allowances. Professors and senior administrators have also pledged several hundred thousand dollars in donations to help offset the budget...
...temporary replacement for former Law School Dean Elena Kagan, who stepped down after being confirmed as U.S. Solicitor General, Jackson took an unusually active role in shaping the Law School during his brief three month deanship. Kagan departed in March without making any budgetary announcements to the Law School community, and due to the tight budget approval timeline, the decision fell to Jackson to move forward with involuntary workforce cuts...
...mail, Jackson said that although Martha Minow, the newly appointed Law School dean who assumes her position July 1, was not involved in the decision-making process, he expects her to ease smoothly into her new role...
...have a very strong senior administrative staff at the Law School," he wrote, "and I am sure they will do a terrific job supporting the new dean...
CORRECTION: An earlier online version of the July 1 article "Law School Lays Off 12" gave an incorrect middle initial for the acting dean of the Law School. His name is Howell E. Jackson, not Howell L. Jackson...