Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"[It] offers a great environment away from the demands of school," he added, saying that it would draw team members closer together as a unit.
After a decade of progress, minority law professors are finding that the environment at the nation's law schools is becoming an increasingly hostile one.
"There's a very distressing redirection in legal academia," says Ronald Delgado, a visiting professor of law at the University of Southern Illinois. "It's a much tougher, colder environment psychologically" for minorities.
"My suspicion is that it's because the environment is harsher," Delgado says. "The environment is not as warm [for minorities] as it is for non-minorities."
This hostile environment may also deter promising minorities from teaching law, many fear. "Those of us in the business are extremely concerned that prospective minority lawyers who would become future law professors not be discouraged from pursuing access to the profession," Carty-Bennia says. She believes that incidents such as...