Struggling Law School’s Dean Unexpectedly Resigns Amid News Of Missing Student Loan Funds – Above the Law
Chaos seems to have erupted at this law school. What is going on?
When we last checked in with Florida Coastal School of Law in February 2019, the struggling law school had recently announced its plans to convert to a nonprofit institution, having already submitted an application to the American Bar Association for the change. At the time, the law school was out of compliance with with the ABA’s accreditation standards pertaining to its admissions practices and risked facing similar consequences as its defunct Infilaw sister schools, Charlotte School of Law, which closed in August 2017, and Arizona Summit Law School, which had its accreditation revoked in June 2018 and will officially close by spring 2020.
As luck would have it, in June 2019, Florida Coastal found itself back in the ABA’s good graces after adopting higher admissions standards, but there was still no word on its would-be conversion to a nonprofit in affiliation with a yet-to-be publicly named “university located in the Southeast.” All that was known was that the affiliate school could potentially give Florida Coastal the ability to double or triple in size.
After months of waiting, Florida Coastal finally has an answer, and it seems that chaos has erupted in its wake.