We are shocked, simply shocked!! “Ex-staffer says she was ordered to pad law school’s job numbers”

24 October 2012 – A former assistant career services dean at the Thomas Jefferson Law School has filed a declaration in a class action against the institution in which she acknowledges padding graduate employment statistics in 2006.

Karen Grant said in a sworn statement in August that she counted recent graduates as employed if they had worked in any capacity since graduation. She blamed pressure by her supervisor to improve the school’s jobs statistics.

Law schools are only supposed to report graduates as employed if they have a job nine months following graduation, according to American Bar Association rules.

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