2009 PRESIDENT'S REPORT

2009 Highlights

Law School Lands On ‘Best Value’ List

The UM School of Law is No.6 on a list of 65 best-value law schools in the nation. The list was compiled by The National Jurist magazine in an article titled “Best Bang! For Your Buck.” The law school was lauded for its in-state tuition of $10,273, its bar-passage rate of 95 percent and its after-graduation employment rate of 95.7 percent. The National Jurist reaches an estimated 100,000 law students.

Washington Monthly Ranks
UM 132nd Among Universities

The Washington Monthly ranked UM 132nd out of 258 national universities in its annual college rankings, which judge schools on three criteria: social mobility, research and service. The independently owned political magazine listed UM 196th in social mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), 143rd in research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and doctoral degrees) and 54th in service (encouraging students to give something back to their country) to compile the overall ranking.

Saldin Named Academic Fellow At Think Tank

The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies named UM political science Assistant Professor Robert Saldin an Academic Fellow in terrorism studies for 2009-10. The nonpartisan Washington, D.C.-based policy institute sent Saldin to Israel in June for an intensive course in terrorism studies.

UM Makes National Honor Roll

UM’s commitment to service-learning and civic engagement earned it a spot on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. Operated by the Corporation for National and Community Service, the honor roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for exemplary community service. During the 2007-08 year, UM students contributed more than 69,500 hours of work through academic service-learning, extracurricular volunteering and AmeriCorps service hours.

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