Dear Law School alumni and friends,
I’m starting my third week as dean of our great Law School. I can’t tell you what a privilege it’s been to hear from alumni and friends from across our State and Nation who are excited about our Law School and its future and are anxious to support what we’re doing. Many of you have said to me if there’s anything I can ever do for the Law School, I hope you’ll let me know. Well, as you can imagine, I’ve been thinking about that, and there are two things I hope you’ll consider doing.
First, one of my priorities for the coming year is to reconnect alums with their Law School and with each other. To do that, I’m going to be recruiting class co-chairs to facilitate communications between the Law School and alumni classes to keep folks apprised of what each other is doing and to support our annual giving efforts. If you’d be interested in serving in that capacity, I hope you’ll e-mail Candice Robbins: crobbins@law.ua.edu.
Second, I hope you’ll consider making an annual gift. Frankly, our annual giving dollars have fallen off of it in the past few years, and they are critical to our ability to do the things we need to do around the school, whether it’s providing scholarships for students, recruiting and retaining great faculty, supporting students who want to do summer public interest work, and a host of other things. Our annual giving dollars are critical for the flexibility we need to operate a first-class law school. So, I hope you’ll think about making a gift. You can do so by visiting this link online. If you’ve already done so, thank you very much. Please be as generous as you can, but know that a gift of any amount will be a great help to us.
I’m excited to see what we can accomplish together!
– Bill