The agenda items up for discussion at the April 7 faculty meeting at the University of Houston Law Center seemed fairly benign: honor code revisions, an update on the self-study program and a presentation on computer software that had caused some glitches during the last exam period. But there was one item within the Dean's Report that had caused more than 100 law students to cram into the small campus meeting room: the law school's marked decline in the newly released U.S. News & World Report 2007 law school rankings. Although the UH Law Center had only fallen five spots to 70th position among the magazine's "Top 100 Schools" there had been a precipitous slide of 20 slots during much of Dean Nancy Rapoport's six-year tenure.
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