Southern University Law Center

This document outlines the Institutional Effectiveness process for Southern University Law Center, serving as a comprehensive manual for assessment, planning, and evaluation. Its primary purpose is to support continuous improvement, well-informed decision-making, and maintain regional and American Bar Association accreditations. The process integrates four core dimensions: Planning, Assessment, Evaluation, and Budgeting, and includes a strategic planning framework with phases for analysis, law center-wide planning, annual unit planning, and implementation. Key goals include enhancing teaching and learning, fostering scholarship, ensuring service excellence, improving community quality of life, and increasing recognition and community involvement.

The strategic plan for Southern University Law Center focuses on providing access and opportunity to a diverse group of students, particularly from underrepresented racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds, to obtain a high-quality legal education. Key goals include increasing student access and success, ensuring quality and accountability through measures like LSAT scores and bar passage rates, and enhancing service to the community and state through pro bono clinics and outreach programs. The plan also addresses external factors such as state government funding, economic conditions, and ABA accreditation standards that could affect the achievement of these goals.

Louisiana's Comeback Agenda focuses on reducing regulatory barriers, modernizing tax policy, enhancing public safety, and fostering job creation. It aims to provide quality education, embrace technology, and promote innovation to improve the state's economy and quality of life.

The Southern University Law Center's strategic plan (FY2023-2024 through FY2028-2029) focuses on three main goals: increasing student access and success, ensuring quality and accountability, and enhancing community and state service. The plan aims to maintain a diverse student body, improve LSAT scores and bar passage rates, increase graduate employment, and expand pro bono services. Specific strategies include enhancing pre-law programs, providing academic support, offering bar review services, increasing internships and clerkships, and expanding pro bono clinics. The plan also addresses potential external factors such as state funding, economic conditions, and changes in law school applications and ABA accreditation standards.