The American Bar Association announced today that Barry Currier will be the ABA's new managing director of accreditation and legal education. This is a new title, replacing the former positionof Consultant on Legal Education. (Currier currently holds that post on an interim basis.)
According to the press release, the title change "reflects the increasing importance and scope of the section’s regulatory role. The title change will not affect the variety of activities and programs that the section offers to support the work of law schools and their faculties and administrators."
Currier has a deep and varied history in legal education, having been dean at Cumberland and Concord Law Schools as well as the Deputy Consultant on Legal Education (from 2000-04). Once upon a time he was also a plain-old-law-professor at the University of Florida. He holds a JD from the University of Southern California.
Update: typo in title has been corrected.
So "Barry" is short for "Barrier"? His parents really christened him Barrier Currier? I find that hard to believe.
It's all too believable, however, that the ABA's new head of accreditation is someone whose last jobs were as dean of a third-tier sinkhole (Cumberland) and dean of an online, for-profit law school enterprise (Concord Law School, a subsidiary of Kaplan University).
Yep, the people at the ABA responsible for accreditation standards are almost always people who benefit personally from low accreditation standards.
I wonder how you were able to assemble this information They do make sense to some extent but in my point of view, there is no hurt in learning and researching even the things that one is already knowledgeable.
As a former colleage I found myself often referring to Barry as Barrier not for any negative reasons, It just seems to go with Currier. Some called him Ives.