EdUp Legal Podcast, Episode 50: Conversation with Alena Allen

EdUp Legal Podcast, Episode 50: Conversation with Alena Allen

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Alternate Title

EdUp Legal Podcast with Host Patty Roberts

Publication Date

3-15-2022

Digital Publisher

Digital Commons at St. Mary's University

Description

Enjoy our 50th Episode of EdUp Legal! This milestone episode includes a conversation with Alena Allen, Interim Dean at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville School of Law, a position she started in January 2022. Prior to taking on this Interim Dean position, she served as their Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Development and as a Professor of Law, positions she started in summer 2021. Dean Allen shares the unusual path to this deanship and the circumstances that prompted her to depart her prior law school after 11 years of service. Dean Allen discusses the challenges of balancing legal practice and teaching in the academy, respectively, with parenting, and the inequities for people of color in both faculty positions and law school leadership in the majority of law schools. Dean Allen expresses her enthusiasm over her law school's Public Interest Fellows Program, and the emphasis and impact they are providing to ensure success for First-Generation students. If you care about diversity in legal education, both for our students and our faculty/leadership, you won't want to miss this episode!

Disciplines

Law | Legal Education

Keywords

EdUp Legal, podcast, Dean Patty Roberts, St. Mary's University School of Law, legal education, legal scholarship, law professor, Alena Allen, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville School of Law, balancing, legal practice, parenting, inequities for people of color, Public Interest Fellows Program, First-Generation students, diversity in legal education

Collection

School of Law Scholarship

Format

digital

Accession Date

October 2023

STMU ID

EdUp50

EdUp Legal Podcast, Episode 50: Conversation with Alena Allen

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