It was a Good Week for …
Finding good news amid a bad employment report, after NALP reported that more grad landed jobs, despite the fact that the employment rate for the class of 2012 fell to 84.7 percent, down from 85.6 percent. The overall rate has fallen five straight years. The percent decline was related to a larger Class of 2012. That could mean a depressed employment rate for another year — as the Class of 2013 is the largest ever. But then class sizes shrink considerably, which could be good news for the Classes of 2014 and 2015.
It was a Bad Week for …
Embezzlement, after Margaret Oyler admitted to stealing $33,000 from the Student Bar Association at the University of Baltimore School of Law between October 2010 and March 2012. The former student served as treasuer and took the money to feed an alcohol and drug habit.
She provided board members with false financial statements to cover her tracks, but was discovered by the SBA president. Oyler did not graduate from the school and has borrowed money from her family to repay the SBA.
She was given a five-year suspended prison sentence, three years’ probation. and must pay back the money. Oyler told the Batlimore Sun the thefts happened during “an extremely dark period in my life.”
