Valparaiso Law School announces ‘right-sizing’ plan

Amy Lavalley:

Valparaiso University announced Friday that in the wake of declining enrollment for its law school, it is offering buyouts to tenured faculty and faculty members with multi-year contracts.

The school has 21 tenured faculty and six with multi-year contracts and any of them could be eligible for a buyout, said Andrea Lyon, the law school’s dean, adding she couldn’t comment on a target number for the buyouts because that would depend on salaries and the school’s budget.

She said the school is “right-sizing” its faculty because of a drop in students. The school has an enrollment this year of 430 full- and part-time students, and had an incoming class in the fall of 133 students.