The panel discussed ways to connect with stakeholder groups via surveys and then subcommittees shared their discussion notes on opportunities and challenges with model 10. There was also discussion on model 9 and 10, and the top three priorities committee members would like to see in a model.

Subcommittees shared their discussions notes regarding opportunities and challenges with model 9. The panel then reviewed the new model 10 and discussed how to best keep track of which parts of each model should be kept, removed, or discussed further.

Subcommittees shared their discussions notes regarding opportunities and challenges with models 1 and 8. The panel then reviewed the current state of the model's spectrum and discussed how to best keep track of which parts of each model should be kept, removed, or discussed further.

The subcommittees met between meetings to discuss models 2 and 3. Additional models submitted by panel members were reviewed and discussed as a panel and then each subcommittee met via breakout session to discuss two new models, 1 and 8.

During the panel’s first meeting, subcommittee structures and charges for each were shared. Panel members were each assigned to one of three subcommittees: Budget and Finance; Academic Values; and Culture.

The Law School Initiative Panel met for a full day session focused on system design principles and design thinking. The day consisted of various sessions, which were facilitated by Efraín Marimón, Assistant Teaching Professor of Education, College of Education, focused on human centered thinking and process design and development.

Fourteen students, staff, faculty and alumni from Penn State Dickinson Law and Penn State Law have been selected to serve on the panel charged by President Neeli Bendapudi with developing recommendations on how to reunite Penn State’s two, separately accredited law schools.

Penn State received more than 700 nominations from students, staff, faculty and alumni to serve on the panel charged by President Neeli Bendapudi with developing recommendations on how to reunite Penn State’s two, separately accredited law schools, Penn State Dickinson Law and Penn State Law.

President Neeli Bendapudi is recommending that Penn State reunite its two separately accredited law schools, Penn State Dickinson Law in Carlisle and Penn State Law at University Park, into a single law school.