The Academic Success Program offers several services including:

Teaching Assistants (TA'S) in study skills. If you need help reading cases, knowing what is important to take notes on in your classes, learning to outline courses, and preparing for exams, an ASP TA can help you. TA's are selected third year students who have done well in courses and on co-ops and have an interest in working with first year students. They are available on a drop-in basis in CG14 at specified office hours.

The Analytical Skills Workshop ("ASW") is offered weekly. The ASW, taught by Professor Brook Baker, attempts to demystify the law school learning process by explicit discussion of study skills, conventions of legal analysis, and exam preparation strategies. The workshop is participatory, engaging students in their own learning process. The time and place for this workshop is on the regular course schedule. The weekly topics are posted on the Academic Success Program bulletin board.

One-time workshops on such topics as: case reading and briefing, course outlining, taking exams, time management, and several other topics. These workshops are advertised on the WEBoard as well as on the Academic Success Program bulletin board.

Materials such as weekly planners, studying and exam writing tips, analysis flow charts, and other helpful information is available in the Academic Success Program room (14CG).

Assistance to individual students. The Academic Success Program Director, Melinda Drew, works with individual students and small groups of students on exam taking strategies and provides one-to-one assistance to students as needed. She also coordinates referrals for counseling services to the University's Health and Counseling Service and its Disability Resource Center.

Assistance in forming study groups. For those of you who would like to be in a study group, but haven't yet found people you want to work with, the ASP will assist you in finding compatible study partners or a study group.

Bar exam preparation. We offer a series of workshops, panels, and classes aimed toward helping our students prepare for the bar examination. We begin with a general introduction to the bar exam for first year students and offer a free, not for credit bar preparation course as well as a panel on how to prepare for the bar exam (co-sponsored with Career Services) for third year students.

General information. The Academic Success Program functions as a kind of "clearinghouse." If you don't know where else to find information you need, we can probably steer you in the right direction so come and ask!

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