Director Of Academic Support And Bar Studies

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Director of Academic Support and Bar Studies
The candidate will teach or co-teach Critical Legal Analysis, a course required of students under academic supervision, and assist with the Advanced Common Law Capstone course. Provide individual assistance to first year students who are identified as at risk as a result of their first semester grades. This includes determining the cause of the academic under performance, and working regularly with the individual students to improve legal writing, analytical skills and/or other areas in need of attention. Also, identify students who may have learning disorders or are experiencing serious personal/emotional problems and refer as appropriate to other campus offices. Provide curricular counseling and academic assistance to upperclass students under academic supervision, and to other students as needed. Develop and present a series of workshops and programs for first year students on academic success topics including, outlining, note-taking, critical case reading, preparing for exams, taking and writing exams, and legal writing. Assist in planning for and participate in first year student orientation, MSP orientation, and other programs designed to provide academic assistance for all first-year students.Identify and implement programs to assist and educate faculty on issues of academic success and enrichment. For example, how to identify academically at risk students, and how to incorporate academic success methodologies into coursework or individual work with students.Work on long term planning and further development of policies and programming in the Academic Support and Bar Studies program. This includes research into best practices in the field and data analysis. Develop and implement an orientation program on the fundamentals of legal analysis and legal reasoning.

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