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Six-Year Tenure Includes Notable Hiring Program, Endowment Increase, Recovery from Allison HOUSTON, April 17, 2006 – Nancy B. Rapoport has resigned as dean of the University of Houston Law Center, effective May 31. “We regret losing an administrator of Dean Rapoport’s caliber,” said Donald J. Foss, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at UH. “During her tenure, she has led an impressive hiring program that added several excellent faculty members while significantly building both the Law Center’s endowment and operating gifts. She also displayed admirable leadership in the successful recovery from Tropical Storm Allison, which flooded substantial portions of the center and left the O’Quinn Law Library under 12 feet of water.” Rapoport became dean in 2000. Prior to coming to the University of Houston, she served as dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law. As a nationally renowned expert in bankruptcy ethics and law, she is the co-editor of the book “Enron: Corporate Fiascos and Their Implications.” She is a member of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. She is extremely proud of the UH Law Center and her service as dean, Rapoport said, and she loved working for its continuing improvement. Rapoport said her plans may include a year-long sabbatical and a return to the UH faculty as a professor. Other options include an offer of a named professorship in bankruptcy law at another law school and several offers to serve as a visiting professor. Foss met Monday, April 17, with the UH Law Center faculty to discuss Rapoport’s decision to resign and his plans for moving forward with a national search for the new dean. He plans to appoint an interim dean and a search committee in the immediate future. For more information about the UH Law Center, please visit http://www.law.uh.edu/. For more information about UH visit the university’s ‘Newsroom’ at www.uh.edu/admin/media/newsroom. |
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