Practice Management

I am having a problem with non-profit law school that wish to be frivolous wit tuition dollars believing that their students can always bailout their poor decisions with higher tuition. By and large those tuition dollars are borrowed, and there is nothing worse that coming out of law school with high debt. To do stupid things that raise tuition unnecessarily is simply disrespectful to a law school's students.  

Although I have been a fan in the past of Thomas Cooley Law School as providing a good non-traditional education to its students, it is already the largest law school in the country and does not seem to need any help with publicity.

So, why in God's green earth is Cooley Law buying the naming rights to a minor-league baseball statim in Lansing Michigan for $1.5 million of their students hard earned and hard borrowed tuition dollars?

Cooley just recently raised tuition stating, "Our operating revenue is tuition-based", and the argument for taxing students further during the worse recession since the depression was because it's operating costs had risen.

Cooley's apparent solution?

Raise the operating costs another $1.5 million. What the hell? Students can just be made to go into further debt to pay for their education. Students can just mortgage their futures a little further.

It would be one thing if the naming rights to the stadium were anywhere near necessary. After all, this is the old Oldsmobile Park, and we all know what happened to the Oldsmobile.

A good bet?

I doubt it. CNBC once covered the curse of stadium naming rights. It never seems to turnout good. And, even if it does not turn out to be a complete curse, since when really has the naming rights ever worked well from a promotion standpoint? It sure is not going to add one more dollar of prestige to the Cooley brand as far as student benefits. Especially memorable was Enron Field in Houston, Texas. Well, maybe Cooley should just go ahead and add the co-called "crooked E" to its logo.

The unmitigated arrogance of some law school leadership today is unfathomable. This really tops the cake. I feel so terribly sorry for the current and entering students of Cooley. The law schools management should feel nothing but shame.