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Since its inception, more HEED Award recipients are
than 120 students have gone selected on the basis of an
through the Pre-Law Pipeline extensive application, detailing
program and 31 of them have demographics of the faculty
been accepted to law schools and student body, recruitment
throughout the country, including practices, mentoring and resource
seven currently attending the programs, community outreach,
Law Center, one of whom made and other efforts designed to
the Dean’s List after her first increase diversity.
semester. “Many thanks go to Professor
In its July/August cover story, Meredith J. Duncan and Program
“INSIGHT Into Diversity” Director Kristen M. Guiseppi
magazine featured the Pre-Law in running the UHLC Pre-Law
Pipeline Program as a model of Pipeline Program as well as so
law school efforts to diversify many of our faculty and staff
the legal profession, citing the who show their commitment
Law Center’s student body to diversity and inclusion
composition including 36.4 every single day. Without their
percent people of color, which collective efforts, this recognition
exceeds the national minority would not be possible,” Baynes
law school enrollment of 31.4 said.
percent. “It is an absolute honor for us
In September, the magazine went Dean Leonard M. Baynes on the cover of Insight into Diversity. to be recognized by “INSIGHT
on to honor the Law Center for Into Diversity” magazine,” said
the third consecutive year with Guiseppi. “We are proud of our
its Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award. UHLC diversity-focused initiatives, like the Pipeline Program, Pathways to Law,
is the only American law school to be selected for the 2018 HEED Juvenile Capital Access Project, Street Law and many other efforts which
Award, which is the only national, application-based award honoring serve to address the need for diversity and inclusion.”
institutions of higher education for their commitment to diversity and In October, The Council on Legal Education Opportunity, Inc. (CLEO),
inclusion. selected the Law Center and Associate Dean for Student Affairs Sondra
“Our standards are high,” Lenore Pearlstein, publisher of “INSIGHT Into Tennessee as recipients of the CLEO EDGE award, which celebrates
Diversity”, said in announcing the award, “and we look for institutions commitment to Education, Diversity, and Greater Equality in legal
where diversity and inclusion are woven into the work being education and the profession. The Law Center was honored in the
accomplished every day across their campus.” “Greater Equality” category and Tennessee in “Diversity.”

Local high school and college students learned about the versatility of a law degree during Diversity Matters Day in Krost Hall.

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