Planning Our Future
Change is occurring at a rapid pace in legal education, the practice of law, and the economy. The School of Law continues to adapt to meet the demands occasioned by these continuing shifts and best prepare its students to enter today’s legal field.
Committee Members
LaVonda N. Reed, Dean
Joy Gaslevic, Associate Dean for Administration, Chair
Professors: Michele Gilman, Michael Higginbotham, Jaime Lee, Nancy Modesitt and Colin Starger
Law Library Director: C.J. Pipins
Staff: Dina Billian, Michelle Gunter and Paul Manrique
Law Student Representatives: Joshua Rodriguez and Michael Tines
Throughout academic year 2024 and Spring 2025, the School of Law will engage in strategic planning to bring key law school voices and constituencies together to celebrate accomplishments and memorialize its five-year vision, long-term goals and priorities. The updated strategic plan will build upon the success of the 2013-2018 University of Baltimore School of Law Strategic Plan, which brought four principal areas into focus: curriculum development, the cost of legal education, admissions and student career planning.
The School of Law’s Strategic Planning Committee has met regularly throughout Spring 2023, Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 to move forward strategic-planning efforts and to develop strategic-planning process milestones as follows:
- Spring 2023 – Strategic Planning Committee convened; staff retreat held to obtain staff feedback on priorities and goals
- Fall 2023 – Faculty retreat held to obtain faculty feedback on priorities and goals
- Spring 2024 – Fall 2024 -- Student visioning retreat planned; asess feedback from students, faculty and staff. Small groups convene to update mission, vision, DEIB and core competency statements, and begin to frame out draft strategic plan
- Spring 2025 -- Engage faculty, staff, students and alumni/practitioners to provide feedback on draft plan; finalize strategic plan and updates to mission, vision, core competencies and diversity statements.
For questions regarding the School of Law strategic plan or planning process, please contact: Associate Dean Joy Gaslevic, jgaslevic@ubalt.edu.
Resources:
2013-2018 University of Baltimore School of Law Strategic Plan
School of Law's Mission and Vision Statement
Core Competencies