UNT Dallas law school gets second chance to earn accreditation
The University of North Texas at Dallas law school will get a second chance to earn the accreditation that would allow its graduates to practice law in the state, the school learned Wednesday.
The decision, which is expected to be announced on the American Bar Associations website on Thursday, comes after a bar committee recommended in August that UNT Dallas not receive preliminary accreditation. That would have been devastating for the school, and meant that students who graduated from the two-year-old program wouldnt have been able to take the bar.
Wednesdays decision remands the question of accreditation back to the committee. It doesnt quite save those students careers, but it also doesnt put them in any more peril. It isnt immediately clear how long the re-review will take or which particular aspects will be reconsidered.
The schools first class is expected to graduate this spring.
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