UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK PROFESSOR FILES FOIA ACTION TO GET LAW SCHOOL ADMISSIONS DATA,…

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"UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK PROFESSOR FILES FOIA ACTION TO GET LAW SCHOOL ADMISSIONS DATA, COLLEAGUES RETALIATE BY CHARGING HIM WITH RACISM: 
“After two professors emailed complaints about Steinbuch’s lawsuit — questioning his grading practices and whether he is biased against minority-group students given his research conclusions that the school has lower admissions standards for black students — an investigation into his grading and the bias complaint has begun.”

Sounds like something the legislature shou
ld look into.
And it’s a debacle for the law school, particularly as people will tend to assume that whatever they’re hiding must be awfully bad — not just affirmative action admissions disparities, which most schools have, but something more serious, like false numbers reported to the ABA and bar examiners, or maybe Texas-style political admissions.
Sooner or later, the truth will come out, of course, but in the meantime the speculation is likely to be intense, and bad for the school.

Meanwhile, this is bad enough, and if there’s racism here, it’s not Prof. Steinbuch’s:

Steinbuch is researching race-based admissions at the school.

His research shows the law school admitted black students with significantly lower admissions scores than white students over the 6-year period studied and that those students failed the bar exam at a rate twice as high as white students’, he said.

The school never informed students with low entrance scores of their lower likelihood of bar passage, and as a result certain students continued to enroll at the school “to their own financial detriment,” the lawsuit states.

Ouch."