San Beda Law Faculty Up In Arms

January 9, 2006

Isagani Cruz writes about a problem at San Beda Law.  Upon the Dean’s recommendation, two students were allowed to re-enroll in violation of a retention policy that called for their dismissal.  The faculty is obviously upset and one has already resigned in protest with the Dean blithely accepting the resignation without any comment.  From what I know, this kind of “discretion” used to be wielded by the UP Law Dean but that hasn’t happened, to my knowledge, in the past 15 years or so.  And rightly so — law school deans are not supposed to bend the rules in any way that compromises academic standards.  They are there to maintain the quality of graduates expected from the institution.  Fiddle with that and after some time, the school’s cachet is lost.  A school is only as good as its alumni. 
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