It was a Good Week for …
Law school acceptances, after Andrew Sweat chose law school over the NFL. The former Ohio State Buckeye was a highly regarded linebacker, but was not drafted. Still, he signed with the Cleveland Browns and most scouts felt he could make the roster and earn the NFL minimum of $390,000 a year. But Sweat said recent concussions made him think twice about football, and he had been accepted to five law schools.
Moving forward with new law schools, after two schools took big steps forward. Indiana Tech in Fort Wayne, Ind. broke ground on its new law school. It is building a 70,000-square-foot facility on the west side of its campus that will house classrooms, faculty offices, the law library, a trial courtroom, and legal clinics. Meanwhile, classes began at Thomas Cooley’s Law School’s Tampa Campus. The campus opened with 104 students at Florida’s newest law school.
University of Denver graduates, after the school reported that 96.6 of 2011 graduates were employed nine months after graduation. The private school used an internal, but independent office to audit the data. 97 percent of the jobs were professional, and 71 percent were full-time long-term.
