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LeTTer frOm The dean

September 2014

To the New York Law School Community:

On behalf of the faculty, administration, and Board of Trustees
of New York Law School, I’m proud to present you with our irst

annual report on the progress made and outcomes achieved
since we reintroduced ourselves as “New York’s law school” and

issued our Strategic Plan in 2013.

As legal education and the profession adapt to a structurally
changed marketplace, and as we approach our 125th anniversary,
NYLS is on the move in meeting the challenges and seizing the

transformative opportunities being presented to us by the new
economy. We’re aligning our curriculum to meet these new market demands; gaining national

recognition and staying ahead of the curve by offering every student the unique opportunities to
engage in clinical and experiential learning presented by our location in the world’s capital; and
seeing positive results from revamping our bar preparation and career planning programs. We’ve

also amassed an impressive record of scholarly and pedagogical achievement, and helped to
shape the development of law and policy here and abroad.

Sustaining these gains, and making more of them, cannot be achieved in a climate of reduced

law school enrollments nationally, including at NYLS, without careful inancial management and
operational right-sizing. through more effective analysis and planning, we have restructured
almost every department in the Law School and dramatically reduced our expenses over the

past two years. at the same time, we’ve enhanced both service delivery and the overall student
experience. We’ve also stabilized tuition, keeping it at the same level for the third straight year in

2014-15, and retooled our inancial aid programs to help reduce student debt, including through
new donor scholarship funding and other programs.

Indeed, New York Law School is proudly on the move to fulill our vision as “New York’s law
school” and to make a high-quality legal education more accessible to all. We thank you for

your interest and look forward to sharing with you, in the pages that follow, the details of our
accomplishments to build the future of our institution and the future of the profession, and to

ensure access to justice, now and in the years ahead.

anthony W. crowell

Dean and President
Professor of Law

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