From mona.nelson at ucr.edu Mon Jul 20 11:26:04 2026 From: mona.nelson at ucr.edu (Mona Nelson) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:26:04 -0700 Subject: [Orgvpdue] PPAC Pre-Law Advisor, Lawrance 'LA' Edwards will depart position in August In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I write that our inaugural Pre-Law Advisor, Lawrance 'LA' Edwards , has shared that he'll be leaving his role and the university effective Friday, August 14th. LA arrived to the Pre-Professional Advising Center (PPAC) in May 2025 and quickly worked to learn all things UCR, the newly rebranded HPAC to PPAC, meeting with CHASS faculty and advisors, academic advisors across campus, campus constituents, student clubs/orgs and community members - all to help connect and grow a pre-law advising program and ecosystem at UCR. During LA's tenure, he created a Pre-Law Cohort - with over 230 undergraduate advisees. Over the past 14 months, LA has been the lead for pre-law advising at the PPAC, around campus, and in the community. Additionally, LA has been a significant presence of the Pacific Coast Association of Pre-Law Advisors and recently presented at the regional conference at the University of Washington. We will certainly miss LA's fun personality, cuisine, and significant professional legal career experience and wisdom. Please save the date for *Thursday, August 13th* from *2-3:30pm* as we'll celebrate LA at the Pre-Professional Advising Center (Rivera B03) for his accomplishments to UCR and the pre-law community. A search committee is currently being assembled and the search for our next pre-law advisor will kick off later this summer. Thank you, Charlie -- *Charles P. Scruggs, M.A.* *Director, Pre-Professional Advising Center* *Past-President, Western Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (WAAHP)* Rivera Library B03 University of California, Riverside Office Line: (951) 827-6233 *| **Charles.Scruggs at ucr.edu * *Web * | *Instagram * | *YouTube * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: noname Type: image/png Size: 32626 bytes Desc: not available URL: