ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – New Mexico’s only law school has received its largest donation in history, to go towards scholarships to help more students get their degrees. Each year, about one hundred law students are admitted to UNM Law School, and one lucky student is granted a full tuition scholarship every three years by alumni Eric and Dana Marie Knapp.
Eventually, that number will grow to help more students. “We’ll be able to do more of that, we’ll be able to provide larger grants, and going forward with inflation, the tuition is only going to go up,” UNM Law School Professor Emeritus Peter Winograd said. “So it will be transformative.”
UNM Law School tuition currently sits around $21,000 per year, which the Knapps have been donating to since 2014. “We give it out to an entering student, and that student keeps it for his or her three years, and then we give it out to another one,” Winograd said.
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Ellen Rabin is one of those students whose life has been changed by this scholarship. “The ability to not have to worry about paying tuition was honestly a huge reason that I was able to come to law school and why I chose UNM in particular,” Rabin said…