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First-term Dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) Elena Kagan named improving student life as the school’s top priority and outlined several strategies for solving the school’s long-debated problems in a state of the school speech last night...
...really have two campuses here, one for the faculty that is very nice, and one for the students, which is not so nice,” Kagan told packed audience of mostly students in the Ames Courtroom, in the law school’s first such address. “And we need to change that...
...recent years the links between the legal profession and the legal academy have become strained,” she said. With the new campaign, Kagan said she hopes HLS will be able to strengthen those bonds...
Other specialties for new professors would be determined by the wishes of individual donors, Armini said. But Kagan said most of the money from the campaign is not currently earmarked for professorships in specific academic fields...
...addition to increasing basic financial aid for its students, Kagan said HLS hopes to increase its Low-Income Protection Plan—a debt-forgiveness program for HLS graduates who choose to avoid the more glamorous avenues of employment...