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Monday Morning Message 3.24.25 We Touch The Future
"I touch the future. I teach." - Christina McAuliffe
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but rather the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats
A few weeks ago, I shared some positive messages about the extraordinary teaching of our faculty and extraordinary service of our staff. I’m pleased to share some more emails I’ve recently received. They keep coming!
FACULTY
Associate Dean Carolyn Broering- Jacobs
Monday Morning Message 3.17.25 State of the Law School
"I really didn't say everything I said." - Yogi Berra
“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.” - Mark Twain
“There are always three speeches…The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.” -Dale Carnegie
Each year, for the past 8 years, I have continued the tradition of giving the “Dean’s State of the Law School” presentation in which I share my thoughts on CSU Law’s past, present, and future.
Monday Morning Message 3.10.25 Our Fingerprints
“Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.” - Judy Blume
Not a week goes by when I don’t receive a positive message from a student or alumnus about the extraordinary teaching of our faculty and extraordinary service of our staff. I’m pleased to share some emails I’ve received over the past few months. Our faculty’s and staff’s fingerprints will never fade from the lives they’ve touched.
STAFF
Jaime Gay
Monday Morning Message 3.3.25 Special Edition: January/February Faculty/Staff Focus
This Special Edition of the Monday Morning Message is called CSU/LAW Faculty/Staff Focus. We are very fortunate to have outstanding full-time, adjunct, and emeritus faculty, leaders-in-residence, and staff. I am pleased to share regular updates on their excellent scholarship, presentations, teaching, and service.
Faculty
Monday Morning Message 2.24.25 The Gentleman From Ohio
“Cleveland-Marshall was exactly the right place….For four years, from 1949 to 1953, I worked during the day and went to school from six to ten every night. As tired as I might have been, I came to most of my classes full of excitement and anticipation…..As my studies progressed at Cleveland-Marshall, I was aware that I was experiencing a kind of mental or intellectual metamorphosis. The fact is that there’s nothing quite like the law…. I understood that I wasn’t simply absorbing knowledge, learning cases and principles – my mind was being trained to a way of thinking. I was absorbing a certain kind of logical, philosophical approach to processing and presenting information.
Monday Morning Message 2.17.25 27 Presidents
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me." – President Abraham Lincoln
With all due respect to America’s doctors, dentists, nurses, engineers, architects, and business executives, no profession is more responsible for producing America’s local, state, and national leaders than the legal profession.
No profession is more common among U.S. Presidents and among those who founded our country.
Monday Morning Message 2.10.25 A New Chapter
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start….” ―J.B. Priestley
This morning is a bittersweet moment for me as I share the news that I will be stepping down as Dean of CSU Law when my current term ends on June 30, 2025 to become the 10th President of Baldwin Wallace University (BW). Below is a message to the CSU community from President Laura Bloomberg and Provost Nigamanth Sridhar that was sent a few minutes ago.
Monday Morning Message 2.3.25 For Each Other
“They are one person. They are two alone. They are three together. They are for each other.” - "Helplessly Hoping", Crosby, Stills, and Nash
This is the time of year when prospective students are deciding which law schools they will apply to, and if admitted, where they will enroll. There are many factors that students should consider, but if I could give only one reason why prospective and admitted students should choose our law school over many other fine law schools, it would be this:
Monday Morning Message 1.27.25 The True Measure of Success
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” – Maya Angelou
“As much as talent counts, effort counts twice.” ― Angela Duckworth
“It's about seeing things in a new way. When people...change to a growth mindset, they change from a judge-and-be-judged framework to a learn-and-help-learn framework. Their commitment is to growth, and growth takes plenty of time, effort, and mutual support.” ― Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Monday Morning Message 12.23.24 Just One Request Before Your Much-Deserved Winter Break!
The Monday Morning Message will resume in mid-January ….. Just one request before your inbox gets a much-deserved winter break!
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” —Melody Beattie
Each of our students is writing a new chapter in their lives. But it’s not a solo journey. All of us have a role to play as co-authors.
Please be a co-author of a student’s next chapter by making a year-end gift to support our students.