Section on Academic Support

Date Chartered: 5/31/1995

Purpose

The Section on Academic Support promotes the communication of ideas, interests, and activities among members and makes recommendations on matters of interest in the teaching and improvement on academic support.

Leadership   Listserv & Member-Only Content

Newsletters

Academic Support Winter 2017 Newsletter (PDF)
Academic Support Summer 2017 Newsletter (PDF)

Annual Meeting Program

Joint Program
Plenary 1
Plenary 2
Business Meeting
Breakout Sessions

• The Elephant in the Room: Removing Stigma from Mandatory Academic Support Counseling and Courses
• Fostering Growth Mindset Through UW Resilience Lab
• Data Analysis, Bar Performance, and Individual Student Interventions
• Metacognition and Its Role In Learning
• Law School Coursework and Bar Exam Outcomes
• Identifying Risk and Plus Factors from Admission Through Bar Study
• Getting Started with Empirical Work on Academic Support & Bar Success
• Battling Biases: How Can Diverse Students Overcome Bias on Multistate Bar Exams
• Data Analysis, Bar Performance, and the Curriculum
• Professionalism Education and the Road to Bar Passage
• Resilience, Belonging, Learning, and Mindsets in Legal Education

Awards

Year	Award Name	Recipient	Law School
2018	Academic Support Award	Linda Feldman	Brooklyn Law School
2015	Academic Support Award	Paula Lustbader	Seattle University School of Law
2014	Academic Support Award	Ruth Ann McKinney	University of North Carolina Law School
2013	Academic Support Award	Kent Lollis	University of Pennsylvania Law School