{"id":9008,"date":"2021-12-07T10:44:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T15:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=9008"},"modified":"2021-12-07T15:46:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T20:46:55","slug":"detroit-mercy-law-names-new-associate-dean-for-academic-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2021\/12\/07\/detroit-mercy-law-names-new-associate-dean-for-academic-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Mercy Law names new associate dean for Academic Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9033 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2021\/12\/Karen-McDonald-Henning.jpeg?resize=323%2C215&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Karen McDonald Henning speaks to an audience, with several other people listening. A Detroit Mercy banner displayed on the front of the podium.\" width=\"323\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2021\/12\/Karen-McDonald-Henning.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2021\/12\/Karen-McDonald-Henning.jpeg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2021\/12\/Karen-McDonald-Henning.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2021\/12\/Karen-McDonald-Henning.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2021\/12\/Karen-McDonald-Henning.jpeg?resize=825%2C550&amp;ssl=1 825w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2021\/12\/Karen-McDonald-Henning.jpeg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2021\/12\/Karen-McDonald-Henning.jpeg?w=1986&amp;ssl=1 1986w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>University of Detroit Mercy School of Law announced that Karen McDonald Henning, associate professor of law, has been named associate dean for Academic Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am honored to serve the school in this new role,\u201d McDonald Henning said. \u201cI look forward to working with Dean Jefferson Exum and my colleagues to continue to offer the best legal education possible to our students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McDonald Henning joined the faculty at Detroit Mercy Law in 2008 and was granted tenure in 2016. She is the co-author of multiple textbooks and author of numerous articles. Her scholarship focuses primarily on remedies available for violations of constitutional rights.<\/p>\n<p>She teaches a wide range of courses including Civil and Criminal Procedure, Advanced Advocacy, Federal Jurisdiction and Applied Legal Theory and Analysis. McDonald Henning is also an expert on law school pedagogy and a leader among the faculty with respect to increasing assessments and feedback to produce bar exam-ready students and practice-ready practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessor McDonald Henning brings a wealth of experience in many different areas of the law school&#8217;s operations, and I look forward to having her bring that knowledge and her passion for academic excellence to this role,\u201d said Dean Jelani Jefferson Exum.<\/p>\n<p>During her 14 years at Detroit Mercy Law, McDonald Henning has served as the chair of many committees and received the University of Detroit Mercy Faculty Excellence Award, the Student Bar Association Professor of the Year Award and the James T. Barnes Sr. Memorial Faculty Scholar Award. She twice received the Moot Court Faculty Coach of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald Henning begins her new post in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Detroit Mercy School of Law announced that Karen McDonald Henning, associate professor of law, has been named associate dean for Academic Affairs. \u201cI &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[146,328,5078,327],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-2li","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9035,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions\/9035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}