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Inspiration by Commencement Speech

Posted on May 19, 2008
Yesterday I had the privilege of attending my sister's graduation from medical school. It was a truly wonderful experience and a wonderful day. Boston University Medical School chose a non-traditional graduation speaker, and I have been thinking about his speech...

Graduation Thoughts

Posted on May 15, 2008
Although many of you have already celebrated graduation, we here at VLS are gearing up for graduation this weekend. I was warned we live under something of a weather curse here at VLS; a dean was just reminiscing with me...

Helping Students Edit Their Writing Effectively

Posted on May 10, 2008
Some of my colleagues at UMKC School of Law have created a "self-editing" device to help students with their writing. Prof. Wanda Temm describes it below and asks for your help in improving it. (dbw) Colleagues: Like many of us,...

Wingspread Pipeline Conference

Posted on May 09, 2008
WINGSPREAD IX, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, July 27-28 2008 Starting Sunday evening, Wingspread itself runs through Monday, followed by a law-themed strand for the full day on Tuesday and also the rest of the 15 th Annual Education....

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A Job Opportunity at Pheonix?

Posted on May 08, 2008
Phoenix School of Law Assistant Director of Bar Prep Phoenix School of Law, Arizona?s newest law school, seeks a creative and self-directed individual to serve as an Assistant Director of Bar Prep with our growing Academic Success team. Phoenix School...

What's luck go to do, got to do with it?

Posted on May 07, 2008
With apologies to Tina Turner and anyone who does not appreciate the beauty of ?80?s music. But really, what does luck have to do with exam taking? When I send my students off to take their exams, I feel like...

Teachable Moments: The Passing of Mildred Loving

Posted on May 05, 2008
I am always looking for teachable moments; those times when "real life" intersects with law school teaching. This morning, a student sent a link regarding the passing of Mildred Loving, whose challenge to Virginia's anti-miscegenation law led to the decision...

2008 LSAC Workshop for New Academic Support Professionals

Posted on May 01, 2008
LSAC has e-mailed and mailed materials to ASP professionals regarding this year's Academic Assistance Topical Workshop for new professionals. In addition, information has been sent through the ASP listserv. However, if you are a new professional, you may have missed...

University of Iowa ASP Position

Posted on April 30, 2008
Director of Academic Support University of Iowa College of Law The University of Iowa College of Law seeks applications for a full-time Director of Academic Support beginning with the 2008-09 academic year. The College of Law is an intimate, collegial...

AALS Education Law Section Call for Papers ? "Campus Violence: Prevention, Response, and Liability"

Posted on April 24, 2008
Call for Papers/Abstracts from the Education Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools The 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) will be held January 6-10 in San Diego, California. The Education Law Section...

Law School Flu Season is here!

Posted on April 23, 2008
Excuse me if this post is a little loopy--law school flu season is here. Law school flu season doesn't follow the same trajectory as the traditional flu season. In my experience, it is bimodal, and peaks in December and April/May,...

The Last Week of Classes

Posted on April 22, 2008
It is the last week of classes here at Texas Tech School of Law. 3L students are counting down in minutes now. 2L students are anticipating summer jobs while still worrying about exams. And, 1L students are surprised at how...

The Ideal Law Professor

Posted on April 13, 2008
I have done a lot of thinking over my career about what makes an "ideal" law professor or dean. I have been thinking about this more lately after Professor Michael Hunter Schwartz's call for nominations for his "What Best Law...

ASP Job Opening at Catholic University of America

Posted on April 12, 2008
The Columbus School of Law of The Catholic University of America invites applications for the position of Director of Academic Support. The new Director will begin in August 2008. The goal of the Academic Excellence Program is to enhance the...

Welcoming New Faces to the Campus

Posted on April 08, 2008
Yesterday was "Admitted Students Day" at Vermont. I manned the ASP table (so to speak) for several hours and had the opportunity to meet many wonderful (potential) new additions to the VLS community. One of the wonderful and frustrating parts...

Annotated Bibliography of Bar Articles

Posted on April 07, 2008
Arturo Torres, Associate Dean of Law Library and Computing, at Texas Tech School of Law and Bryan J. Guymon, a second-year student at Texas Tech School of Law, have compiled a twenty-page annotated bibliography of articles from 1998 to 2007...

The Elephant in the Room

Posted on April 04, 2008
It is three weeks away from the end of classes at my law school. Most students are feeling the pressure right now. Many students are telling me that they are having the blahs, the blues, bouts of depression, or burdens...

Little Earthquakes

Posted on April 03, 2008
I am having a nostalgic week, mainly because I keep getting phone calls from various educational organizations reminding me that I have reunions this year (and the numbers they attach to these phrases are just too large to fathom!). However,...

Excellent Piece on Willpower (Related to Studying for Exams)

Posted on April 02, 2008
Important reminder for our students as they get ready to prepare for exams; willpower requires practice and energy. We know multi-tasking, regardless of age, does not work. Now scientists are learning that we are better tackling only one task at...

Developing rubrics for students to self-correct practice exams

Posted on April 01, 2008
As the semester winds down and exam prep speeds up, I am working on a rubric for students to self-correct practice exams. I am developing the rubric for several reasons, the most pressing is time management. I can't give feedback...

Bullying in the Workplace

Posted on March 25, 2008
The New York Times had an overwhelming response to their last article on workplace bullying, "Meet the Work Bully", (March 11, 2008), and has continued the discussion with a new article in today's Health section, "When the Bully Sits in...

Bullying

Posted on March 24, 2008
My interest is in bullying and peer intimidation among law students; however, the New York Times has a truly horrific article on bullying. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/us/24land.html?ex=1364097600&en=310db71ec4aeadb6&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink If we are allowing this to happen in our high schools, it's no wonder we have...

Gen X/Gen Y/Millennial law student

Posted on March 22, 2008
There seems to be a great deal of discussion about the Gen X/Gen Y/Millennial law student. This discussion is distressing to me because I belong to all of those generational categories. I was born in '77, so I am a...

Saved by Spring Break

Posted on March 20, 2008
Just prior to Spring Break, I noticed that many of my law students were very stressed. In part, it was due to the plethora of midterm exams and paper deadlines. In part, it was due to students' knowing that they...

Resources for Visual Learners

Posted on March 17, 2008
A large number of my students have higher scores for visual learning than verbal (read/write) learning when they take learning style assessments. Obviously, they have to use both learning styles in law school. However, by converting material to visual graphic...

Report from the SALT Conference: Teaching for Social Justice

Posted on March 14, 2008
Today was the first day of the SALT Conference on Teaching for Social Justice. This is a topic close to many in ASP. Many of our students came to law school with an intense passion for justice, and it is...

Commercial Law Study Aids

Posted on March 13, 2008
Our students have a required commercial law course which includes both negotiable instruments (aka payment systems or commercial paper) and secured transactions. This commercial law course is one of the hardest for law students, especially those without any business background...

More from the Learning Differences Conference

Posted on March 13, 2008
The Learning Differences Conference at Harvard was great. Although it was designed for Pre-K-12, there were a number of excited ideas and trends in teaching all students presented at the conference. 1) Most studies on ADHD have not been on...

Future Interest and Estates Study Aids

Posted on March 12, 2008
Our students have been going through a spate of midterm exams in Property recently. Future interests, estates, and RAP are as perplexing for current students as they were to all of us in law school. I thought it might be...

Using the Star Strategy to Case Brief

Posted on March 08, 2008
I am reporting from the Learning Differences Conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Lynn Melzer, PhD, of the The Research Institute for Learning and Development, developed a strategy for students with strong visual preferences to map information...

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