With fewer and fewer law school applicants, schools are working to attract students from the one state that has no law school: Alaska. Recently, Willamette Law announced a 3+3 with the University of Alaska in Anchorage. Now, Seattle University has announced that it plans to open a satellite campus in Anchorage where students could spend summers and their third year studying a standard law curriculum. The proposal will require ABA approval.
It remains to be seen whether satellite campuses are an effective way for schools to expand into underserved markets. The University of Idaho thinks so; they have a third year program at their Boise satellite campus and, last week, received ABA approval to add second years to that campus.