Johnson C. Smith University and Charlotte School of Law to Offer Dual…

February 1, 2012

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Charlotte, N.C. Jan 30, 2012

A collaborative bid between Johnson C. Smith University and Charlotte School of Law will capacitate students to attend 3 years during Johnson C. Smith University and 3 years during Charlotte School of Law to acquire a Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts grade and a Juris Doctor degree. The 3+3 module has been authorized by a Southern Associations of Colleges and Schools (SACS) to start in tumble 2012.

High-performing JCSU students with an seductiveness in law will be recruited to be a partial of a program. A special information event to outline a expectations and mandate will be hold for students and relatives and an advising agreement sealed before to a tyro entering a program. Candidates are compulsory to have a smallest SAT measure of 900 and a smallest GPA of 3.0.

Students will follow a curriculum gait that allows them to finish JCSU grade mandate reduction a vital electives. Those embody JCSU’s introduction to authorised studies and LSAT preparation. At a finish of their youth year, competent students might enter a law module during CharlotteLaw. Participating first-year students during CharlotteLaw contingency accommodate smallest GPA mandate to sojourn in good educational standing. Full credits compulsory for graduation from Johnson C. Smith contingency be finished by a finish of Aug following a initial year of law school. Graduates from a module will accept dual degrees – one from Johnson C. Smith University and one from Charlotte School of Law.

“Johnson C. Smith University endeavors to furnish graduates who are means to promulgate effectively, consider critically, and learn exclusively as good as collaboratively,” pronounced JCSU President Ronald Carter. “We conclude a event to combine with Charlotte School of Law in a module that combines a peculiarity liberal arts preparation with a clever study in a margin of law, so a graduates will be good prepared for successful careers.”

The collaborative attribute between a dual institutions might embody corner research activities and publications, applications for research funding, co-sponsorship of seminars, and pity of march materials and curriculum.

“We are invariably looking for new ways to urge a post-graduate educational knowledge for a students and we’ve found that in this 3+3 partnership with Johnson C. Smith University,” pronounced Denise Spriggs, halt vanguard of Charlotte School of Law. “Students who penchant a event to plea themselves will find that in a partnership with Charlotte’s oldest and most-established university.”

The dual institutions share a goal to offer a village and strech out to different cultures. Charlotte School of Law believes strongly that tomorrow’s leaders contingency simulate and correlate effectively with an heterogeneous common of people and cultures. Consequently, a school places clever importance on portion a underserved by village use and pro bono work in an thorough sourroundings that fosters a perfectionist nonetheless understanding educational environment for a richly different community.

Similarly, Johnson C. Smith University provides an superb preparation for a different organisation of gifted and rarely encouraged students from several ethnic, socioeconomic, and geographical backgrounds. A infancy of students are heavily concerned in village service.

About Johnson C. Smith University

Founded in 1867, Johnson C. Smith University is a premier eccentric county liberal arts university located in a heart of Charlotte, N.C. It offers a on-going liberal arts curriculum with 26 fields of study to scarcely 1,500 students. The University prepares students for success by glorious educational programs with a concentration on menial leadership, county rendezvous and tellurian responsibility.

About Charlotte School of Law

Charlotte School of Law, entirely accredited by a American Bar Association, offers a student-centered course that focuses on a hands-on training indispensable to supply graduates with leadership, government and interpersonal skills indispensable for career success. As a usually law school in North Carolina’s many populous city, Charlotte School of Law offers full-time and part-time day programs as good as an dusk part-time module for operative professionals. On a Web during //www.charlottelaw.edu”>http://www.charlottelaw.edu.

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