Volume 5 Winter 2011 Number 2 - Charleston Law Review

SCHULZE FINAL.doc1/20/2011 6:14PMCHARLESTON LAW REVIEW [Volume 5includes a section for Academic Support, 22 the Law SchoolAdmissions Council sponsors a biennial national workshop andmore frequent regional workshops, 23 and regional consortiums ofacademic support professionals have emerged. 24 The next sectionexplores the curricular design of these relatively new ASPs.C. The Current Methodologies of Providing Academic SupportAs previously mentioned, law schools must choose theacademic support methods that best suit their students, faculty,and curricula. As a result, law school academic support methodsaround the nation are diverse. Nonetheless, some methods havebecome mainstream, while others are more innovative.The methodologies of the law school academic supportcommunity can be sorted into four temporal categories: (1) prelawschool academic support, (2) first-year academic support, (3)upper-class academic support, and (4) post-law school academicsupport. 25 These categories will be discussed briefly in turn.gram.xml (last visited Oct. 23, 2010) (including first-year orientationworkshops, the use of second and third-year Teaching Assistants, and a barexam strategy workshop); Support, NEW ENG. L.|BOS., http://www.nesl.edu/exceptional/support.cfm (last visited Oct. 23, 2010) (including a first-year“Academic Excellence” class, a for-credit second year “Legal Analysis” class forstudents who underperformed in the first year, and a for-credit bar preparationcourse in the final semester of law school).22. See Association of American Law Schools Section on Academic Support,UMKC SCH. L., http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/profiles/glesnerfines/asp/asp.htm (last visited Oct. 22, 2010).23. See Suni, supra note 12, at 498 n.11. The biennial conferencesincluded Boulder in 1992, William & Mary in 1993, Hofstra in 1997, KansasCity in 2000, Seattle in 2002, Las Vegas in 2005, Miami in 2007, and St. Louisin 2009. Id. (Boulder in 1992, William & Mary in 1993, Hofstra in 1997, KansasCity in 2000, Seattle in 2002, Las Vegas in 2005); LSAC Academic AssistanceTraining Workshop Update, LAW SCH. ACAD. SUPPORT BLOG(Apr. 28, 2009), http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/academic_support/2009/04/lsac-academic-assistance-training-workshop-update.html (St. Louis in 2009);Great ASP Workshop in Miami, LAW SCH. ACAD. SUPPORT BLOG (June 25, 2007),http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/academic_support/2007/06/great-asp-works.html (Miami in 2007).24. See, e.g., BY-LAWS OF THE NEW ENGLAND CONSORTIUM OF ACADEMICSUPPORT PROFESSIONALS (NECASP) (2009) (on file with author).25. See Ricardo Villarosa & Ruth Ann McKinney, Conference Presentation:The Five W’s of Strong Academic Support Programs 2 (2008) (on file withauthor).278