UMass officials offer new financial plan for law school

By Jenna Russell, Globe Staff March 31, 2005
In a last-ditch effort to win state approval of a proposed law school, leaders of the University of Massachusetts yesterday submitted a revised plan with a new tuition structure and agreed to pursue major private fund-raising for the law school

Leaders of the state Board of Higher Education, who are expected to vote this morning on the university's plan to acquire Southern New England School of Law in Dartmouth, predicted a close vote and said many of the board's members were still weighing the plan's costs and benefits yesterday.
The UMass plan has faced fierce opposition from Suffolk University Law School and New England School of Law, whose leaders said a public law school was not needed and would burden taxpayers. Southern New England is not accredited by the American Bar Association.
The Board of Higher Education's chairman, Stephen Tocco, and vice chairman, Aaron Spencer, both described themselves yesterday as undecided. One member, Matthew Carlin, said he would vote against the proposal, and another, Kathleen Kelley, said she would vote for it. Several others did not return phone calls.

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