{"id":10923,"date":"2016-03-01T15:43:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T21:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=10923"},"modified":"2016-03-02T09:25:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T15:25:06","slug":"mitchell-hamline-board-honored-for-leadership-in-combining-law-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/01\/mitchell-hamline-board-honored-for-leadership-in-combining-law-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Hamline board honored for leadership in combining law schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three months after presiding over the successful combination of two law schools, the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Board of Trustees is being honored by the nation\u2019s premier higher-education governance association for \u201cinnovation and exemplary leadership.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":12,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mitchellhamline.edu\\\/news\\\/2016\\\/03\\\/01\\\/mitchell-hamline-board-honored-for-leadership-in-combining-law-schools\\\/\"}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10923 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/DSC02513.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10925\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/DSC02513.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,801\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;keywords&quot;:&quot;Array&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/DSC02513-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/DSC02513-1024x684.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/DSC02513-1024x684.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Leaders gathered Tuesday to accept the award from AGB Senior Consultant Sheila Stearns (center) included, from left, former Hamline University President Linda Hanson and current President Fayneese Miller, Hamline board chair Bob Klas Jr., Mitchell Hamline board chair Dan O\u2019Keefe and vice chair Helen Meyer, and Mitchell Hamline President and Dean Mark Gordon.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/DSC02513-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/DSC02513-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/DSC02513-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/DSC02513.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10925'>\n\t\t\t\tLeaders gathered Tuesday to accept the award from AGB Senior Consultant Sheila Stearns (center) included, from left, former Hamline University President Linda Hanson and current President Fayneese Miller, Hamline board chair Bob Klas Jr., Mitchell Hamline board chair Dan O\u2019Keefe and vice chair Helen Meyer, and Mitchell Hamline President and Dean Mark Gordon.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The board is one of six recipients\u2014and the only one in Minnesota\u2014of the AGB John W. Nason Award for Board Service, bestowed by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, the only national organization dedicated to providing higher-education leaders in public and private institutions with resources to enhance their effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Mitchell Hamline School of Law\u2019s board has shown that dedication to mission need not be incompatible with necessary transformation and structural reorganization,\u201d said Richard D. Legon, AGB president, of the decision to combine William Mitchell College of Law with Hamline University School of Law. \u201cThe board perpetuated the historic mission of the institution while handling sensitive issues like faculty resizing, and managed the combination in a context of shared governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reaching its unanimous decision, AGB\u2019s panel of judges considered the Mitchell Hamline board\u2019s \u201cstrong leadership\u201d in the face of significant challenges in legal education today. Enrollment declines and related tuition discounting have become common at law schools across the country in recent years. Mitchell Hamline leaders responded by navigating thorny questions of identity and governance to combine an autonomous law school with a university-based law school to create a new, independent entity. Leaders overcame more than a decade of resistance to the merger with \u201ca carefully executed choreography of decision-making at its best,\u201d according to the nomination letter submitted to AGB by former William Mitchell President and Dean Eric Janus and Trustee Dr. Stephen Lewis. The board \u201chas studied and planned and endorsed innovative changes outside of the comfort zone of the vast majority of U.S. law schools,\u201d Janus and Lewis wrote, including not just the combination but an unprecedented fund-raising campaign that brought in more than $25 million in just four years as well as the creation of the nation\u2019s first part on-campus\/part online \u201chybrid\u201d J.D. program at an ABA-approved law school.<\/p>\n<p>All six winners of the Nason Award\u2014named for a former president of Minnesota\u2019s Carleton College\u2014demonstrated the following, according to AGB:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li>Exceptional leadership and initiative;<\/li>\n<li>Distinct contributions to strengthening governance and trusteeship;<\/li>\n<li>Unusual courage in the face of difficult circumstances; or<\/li>\n<li>Significant achievement that benefits the institutions, system, or foundation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The winners will be honored during a special visit to their institutions by AGB\u2019s leadership during their spring board meetings and will receive an elegant keepsake for display. The Mitchell Hamline board is being honored at its March 1 meeting. The other winners have not yet been publicly announced.<\/p>\n<p>Winners also receive three free registrations to AGB\u2019s National Conference on Trusteeship in April in Washington, D.C., where they will also be recognized at a plenary session. The good work of the winning boards will also be highlighted across AGB\u2019s publications, including features in <em>Trusteeship<\/em> magazine and on <a href=\"http:\/\/agb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">AGB.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three months after presiding over the successful combination of two law schools, the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Board of Trustees is being honored by the nation\u2019s premier higher-education governance association for \u201cinnovation and exemplary leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/01\/mitchell-hamline-board-honored-for-leadership-in-combining-law-schools\/\" class=\"more-link\">Mitchell Hamline board honored for leadership in combining law schools<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4909,"featured_media":10928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"category-news","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}