Source: UKY COE GraphicsToday is a great day for The Edjurist because I get to introduce our third UK contributor, Dr. Neal Hutchens. Neal is as talented and promising as they come and we're lucky to have him both here at UK and blogging at The Edjurist.

Let's start at the top; Neal was first a high school history and geography teacher - that was before he went to law school and got a J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law. Then Neal went to Washington. While in D.C. Neal worked as a legislative fellow on the U.S. Senate's Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions - and during that time he worked on the latest reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. But, as if that wasn't enough, Neal was also obtaining a Ph.D. in Education Policy from the University of Maryland. Then Neal entered academia at Barry University's Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law where he taught courses such as Constitutional Law. Earlier this year Neal left Barry and joined us here at the University of Kentucky in our Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation. While Neal covers lots of different areas of educational law, his primary focus is higher education law and student and teacher/faculty rights.

So, we can all look forward to Dr. Hutchens' posts - they promise to be outstanding.