Posted by on Friday, May 2, 2014
Welcome to this week’s Diversity Dish and Happy Friday! This week we are sharing an interesting news story coming out of California. A new community college / law school partnership has been created by the State Bar in order to increase the diversity pipeline in California. Read on below for more information. Don’t forget to register for the NALP / ALFDP Diversity and Inclusion Summit in Chicago on June 6, if you haven’t already! Enjoy this week’s Diversity Dish, Happy Friday and if you aren’t already, follow us on Twitter @CourtneyDredden.
5.1.14 Carla Rivera writes in the LA Times on the new initiative sponsored by the California State Bar Council on Access and Fairness. “The new initiative will partner six of the state's top law schools with 24 community colleges to provide the two-year students with individual advising and mentoring, financial aid counseling, access to law school faculty, tutoring for entrance exams and a waiver of law school application fees.” The goal of the initiative is to present the legal profession to a new diverse group of students. Partnering law schools are USC's Gould School of Law, Loyola Law School, the University of San Francisco School of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law, and law schools at UC Davis and UC Irvine. This is a great idea to fill the pipeline at a point that tends to be ignored. By reaching community college students, (many of whom are diverse), law schools will be strengthening the diversity in the matriculating classes and therefore the profession.
