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By Steven Bahls. As a former law school dean and now college president, I have been following the collapse in law school enrollments closely enough to see it as a warning sign for liberal arts colleges. Here are the three lessons we can learn from the collapse in law school enrollment. 
1. By definition, collapse is quick. The number of students taking the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) is down 45 percent from 2009. First-year enrollment in law schools is down 25 percent since 2010. Professor Paul Compos, from the University of Colorado, estimates that law school revenues are down about 15 percent in real terms from three years ago, although it’s telling that costs have not decreased. As a result, Compos estimates that 80 to 85 percent of law schools are incurring significant operating losses. Read more...

By UD. Revelation of gender segregation at public events in British universities should make Americans that much more vigilant about threats to equality in their own universities.  We are not yet where the British are - we do not yet have official university bodies counseling gender apartheid - but we could certainly get there. How to avoid the upheaval on the subject in England (in which the prime minister has had to step in to remind that country's universities what separate but equal means), the general outrage with the practice of making women sit in the backs of public meeting rooms, and in many cases forcing them to shut up?  How does a practice like that develop in a secular democratic culture? 
It develops when liberal democracies lose their taste for defending foundational values. Read more...