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Call for proposals for AALS joint program 2011

Posted on February 26, 2010
CALL FOR PROPOSALS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW SCHOOLS ? 2011 Conference A Joint Program of the Sections on Balance in Legal Education and Academic Support Co-Sponsored by the Section on Student Services Theme: ?Beyond Humanizing: Can ? and Should ?....

Student Services Position at Touro Law School

Posted on February 19, 2010
TOURO COLLEGE JACOB D. FUCHSBERG LAW CENTER Assistant Dean for Student Services Job Description Touro Law Center seeks an Assistant Dean for Student Services to be responsible for virtually all matters involving student life at the law school. The Assistant...

Director of Academic Support and Bar--Southwestern Law

Posted on February 17, 2010
Director of Academic Support and Bar Exam Related Programming Southwestern Law School Southwestern Law School invites applications for the position of Director of Academic Support and Bar Exam Related Programming, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2010...

How should they spend Spring Break?

Posted on February 15, 2010
This is a question that comes up every year. It is not raised by every student. It tends to be an issue for the outliers, the super-high achievers afraid of losing their edge by taking any time away from studying...

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Please Fill Out The Survey!

Posted on February 09, 2010
A request from Emily Randon at UC-Davis. If you haven't taken the survey, please do! We are in the process of collecting data to determine the use of and need for a Law of Agency Casebook to be used in...

Different Schools, Different ASP

Posted on February 08, 2010
We accept that different schools have different characteristics, different personalities, different cultures and histories. This is an important thing to consider when designing or re-designing your ASP program. One-size-does-NOT-fit-all in ASP; ASP, to be successful, must meet the needs of...

Call for proposals for AALS Teaching Methods Section for 2011

Posted on February 03, 2010
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS AALS SECTION ON TEACHING METHODS On behalf of the 2011 Program Committee for the AALS Section on Teaching Methods, we invite you to submit proposals for the 2011 Section Program. The 2011 AALS Annual Meeting will be...

Call for proposals for Institute for Law Teaching and Learning conference

Posted on February 01, 2010
Summer Conference of the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning ?Teaching Law Practice Across the Curriculum? June 16-18, 2010; Topeka, Kansas The Institute for Law Teaching and Learning invites proposals for conference workshops on techniques for teaching law practice across...

Evaluating one's study habits

Posted on January 29, 2010
Let's face it, part of success in law school is all about strategies and techniques. How one studies can be the difference between a C grade and a B or A grade. It pays big dividends to evaluate one's study...

Dealing with the unexpected

Posted on January 28, 2010
I have spent the last month talking with students whose grades were not good after last semester. In many cases, something unexpected happened to the student during the fall semester. That unexpected happening threw the student into a tailspin that...

Position open at Charlotte Law

Posted on January 27, 2010
Academic Success Counselor Charlotte School of Law (CharlotteLaw) seeks applications for an experienced Academic Success Counselor. NEW POSITION DUE TO GROWTH This is a non-faculty full time administrative position starting immediately, at a salary commensurate with qualifications and experience...

Stress and Grades: What we can do for students now

Posted on January 25, 2010
This is the point at which most students have received most, if not all, of their first semester grades. So this is also the point in the semester when they start to meltdown. They never received anything lower than an...

NY ASP Conference

Posted on January 23, 2010
We are excited to announce this year?s full-day NY Academic Support Workshop, to be held from 9:30 to 5:30 at New York Law School on Friday, February 26. As usual, this will be a small and rather intensive gathering of...

Teaching and Learning Books for ASPers

Posted on January 21, 2010
Here is a list of non-traditional (i.e., "ASP") books that I would recommend ASP professionals check out. These are books that you might find helpful when planning for classes and learning a bit more about teaching and learning. What Best...

Students as Customers

Posted on January 19, 2010
This is an update from an earlier post I had written about the concept of students as customers. Some schools openly refer to students as customers; it seems to start with HR, move to the administration, and become a settled...

Finding Jobs in ASP: Where to look

Posted on January 16, 2010
This is a short post for those of you who are looking for positions in ASP, or who are looking to make a switch to another school. If you made it here, this is a great start for your job...

Report From AALS-ASP Section

Posted on January 14, 2010
It was another successful year at AALS. Here are some of the highlights of our section and the section program: 1) The section program featured: Barbara McFarland (NKU), Sophie Sparrow (Franklin Pierce), and on team-based learning Susan Keller (Western State)...

The Numbers Game

Posted on January 13, 2010
All of us in academic support want to know what is working and what is not. Our very nature as ASP'ers is that we want to improve our work so that we can help our students more effectively. There are...

Welcoming New Faces at AALS

Posted on January 04, 2010
AALS is right around the corner; if you are new to ASP, please introduce yourself (we all wear name tags). I am the Chair of Mentoring Committee for the LSAC ASP Project as well as an editor of the ASP...

Happy holidays

Posted on December 23, 2009
The editorial staff of the Law School Academic Support Blog wish all of you a happy holiday season. We hope that the following will be part of your break from the academic grind: Time with family and friends Fun and...

Opening one's academic gifts

Posted on December 21, 2009
I saw a quote recently that reminded me of 1L law students learning the law. The quote said: "We are all gifted; some just haven't opened their gifts yet." In this holiday season, it summoned up a mental picture of...

The myth of "the right stuff"

Posted on December 18, 2009
Grading is in process. With grading will come ranking. With grading and ranking will come probation and academic dismissal decisions. Such is the cycle of legal education. We know that our students are talented, bright, and successful. If they were...

The Grading Grind

Posted on December 15, 2009
Okay, so this begins the part of the semester that is a least-favorite among many of us...the grading grind. In ASP, we tend to grade year-round, so it's not quite the flurry that it is for doctrinal law professors. But...

First-grade students' proverbs

Posted on December 12, 2009
The following list of proverbs was sent to me by our main campus Institute for the Development and Enrichment for Advanced Learners (IDEAL). I have worked with IDEAL on several occasions to provide opportunities for our pipeline students at a...

Welcome to the New ASP Director at U of Cincinnati School of Law

Posted on December 11, 2009
On behalf of the Law School Academic Support Blog, I would like to welcome Joel Chanvisanuruk to our community. Please be on the lookout for Joel at upcoming conferences and workshops so that you can welcome him personally to ASP....

A Tribute to Movies

Posted on December 11, 2009
You may be wondering why a posting under the category "Exams - Studying" would be about movies. No, I am not going to suggest that students watch Paper Chase or Presumed Innocent. Instead, I am strongly encouraging them all to...

Thanksgiving, and Reminding Students to Really Be Thankful

Posted on December 03, 2009
Every once in a while I will recommend an article or story to students that has nothing to do with law school. The article usually reflects on what it means to really appreciate everything they have, even in a terrible...

Thanksgiving for law students

Posted on November 24, 2009
Most of my law students realize that the carefree days of undergraduate Thanksgiving breaks from class are no longer possible. Unless law students have been diligent in reviewing for exams all semester (fortunately, more of my students are seeing the...

Secondary Stress Disorder and ASP

Posted on November 23, 2009
There has been considerable attention on secondary stress disorder (SSD) in the past few weeks as a result of the horrible, tragic events at Fort Hood. SSD is common in caregivers who work with people who have survived traumatic events....

Non-traditional students and exam study

Posted on November 19, 2009
All law students are into exam study mode right now. However, I want to address non-traditional students and specific study issues that they bring to the "crunch time" of the semester. Unlike many of their colleagues, they are often juggling...

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