III-B-9. Minnesota Law School Consortium
The faculty has agreed to participate in the existing consortium arrangement with the University of Minnesota School of Law, William Mitchell College of Law, and Hamline University School of Law.
The proposed consortium arrangement among the three Minnesota law schools would allow students to register for certain courses at any of the three law schools. The deans, associate/assistant deans and registrars from each law school have met to discuss the proposal and have agreed on the following points:
1. Courses qualifying for consortium status must not be offered during the academic year at the home school of the enrolling student.
2. Students would be allowed to earn no more than six consortium source credits during their law school career.
3. Students must be in good academic standing to participate in the program.
4. Summer classes are excluded. Students would continue to be eligible to take summer courses as visitors on an individually approved basis.
5. Tuition would remain at the home school and would be charged on the home school’s fee schedule.
6. Students would abide by all rules of the visiting school.
7. Clinics, externships, internships, independent studies, and seminars would be excluded from consideration.
8. Each semester the three schools would exchange a list of available courses under these procedures. The lists would be made available in time to be included in the home school’s registration packets: mid-March for fall registration, mid-October for spring registration. (The three schools would initially exchange schedules listing courses offered during the academic year to determine which courses would qualify for consortium status. This initial schedule exchange would occur in early March).
9. Students would place their name on consortium course wait lists at their home school during their home institution’s registration period.
10. Consortium status must have space available or be under-enrolled after the home school’s drop and add procedures have been applied. Once the home school’s add/drop period has ended, the registrars would process the consortium course registrations from the wait lists that were created during the home institutions’ registration periods.
11. Care should be taken to insure that, subject to demand, an equal number of students from each of the other two law schools register for a consortium course. The home school registrar would be responsible for monitoring this.
12. The visiting intuition will assign examination numbers to students from the other law schools that are participating in the consortium arrangement.
13. Students who have an examination conflict would receive a variance from the home institution, and the home institution’s examination would be rescheduled. Emergency variances, however, would be handled by the visiting institution.
14. The visiting school would award grades and submit transcripts to the home institution, but the home institution would determine how to accept the transfer credits and how the transfer credits would appear on the home institution’s transcript.
15. A review of the exchange program would occur after a two-year pilot period.
