Posted: September 10, 2024
Summary of Position
We are excited to announce that our Dean has approved a succession plan for the JD Admissions Office and that we are seeking to hire an Assistant Dean for JD Admissions. As some of you know, Renee Post transitioned to the role of Senior Associate Dean for Enrollment, and I plan to begin phased retirement in two years. We look forward to bringing a new team member on board to lead the JD Admissions team.
If you have any questions about the role or working at Penn Carey Law, please feel free to contact Renee (rpost@law.upenn.edu) or me (Randi Garnick - Randi Garnick (rgarnick@law.upenn.edu)). We are always happy to share how much we enjoy being part of the Penn Carey Law community and working alongside our amazing Admissions & Financial Aid team!
Additional Information
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is one of the nation’s oldest and most distinguished law schools. The School offers a unique approach, incorporating cross-disciplinary legal education, a distinctly collaborative environment, and an innovative curriculum to enrich student learning. The small and highly interdisciplinary faculty achieves scholarly excellence while emphasizing a shared effort to advance understanding of the law. The result is an intellectual community that bridges traditional boundaries and disciplines within a renowned internal culture of collegiality, making the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School an extraordinarily supportive academic community for all its members.
The Assistant Dean of JD Admissions articulates and implements a vision of existing and potential opportunities to recruit exceptionally talented students to The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s JD program. The Assistant Dean of JD Admissions (“Assistant Dean”) develops recruitment and matriculation strategies that demonstrate imagination and creativity, using the Law School’s distinctive strengths to attract and enroll JD classes of 240-250 students annually.
Reporting to the Associate Dean for Strategic Enrollment and working closely with the Dean, faculty, and JD Admissions staff colleagues, the Assistant Dean manages a staff of talented admissions colleagues and collaborates with the Assistant Dean of Financial Aid to build and enroll exceptional classes to the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.