McAllister to resign top post at KU’s law school

After 5 years as dean he will return to teaching in August

Stephen R. McAllister announced Tuesday that he will step down as dean of the nationally ranked KU School of Law on Aug. 15 and return to the law faculty as a professor.

“ I am very proud of what the school has accomplished during my tenure, especially our private fund raising, our renewed emphasis on alumni relations and dramatic increases in the diversity of our student body,” said McAllister, who became dean in July 2000.

Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor David Shulenburger said that although he regretted McAllister was stepping down, he was pleased that McAllister would stay at KU on the faculty.

“ The School of Law has made significant gains under Steve’s leadership, from outstanding hires in new faculty to an extraordinary speaker series of nationally prominent legal minds,” Shulenburger said.

Under McAllister’s leadership, the school has raised more than $13 million during the university’s KU First capital fund-raising campaign and increased its proportion of minority students to more than 20 percent, up from less than 10 percent only five years ago. The school’s entering class this fall had a 3.55 median grade-point average and a median LSAT score of 156.