Director of Academic Success Program
Position Description
The Director of Academic Success Program designs, develops, implements, and oversees the academic support program. The Director develops and executes classes and workshops, either directly or through subordinates, to improve the skills of the students necessary to be successful in their legal studies and pass the bar exam. This includes students in the JD, MELP, and LLM programs at Vermont Law School.
Duties and Responsibilities
The functions and duties of this position include:
- design and implement strategies to assist all students, particularly high risk students and students in academic difficulty, to be successful in their legal studies
- responsibility for all administrative duties associated with the bar exam, including but not limited to, coordination with the director of career services to report bar passage statistics to the ABA, reporting programs and initiatives to the trustees, and maintaining student records in regard to bar exam
- responsibility for curriculum design and implementation of advanced legal analysis course; design, implement and at times deliver workshops, speaker series, and informational resources for all bar takers (i.e. TWEN, bulletin boards, flyers, emails) including summer support program for July bar takers
- coordinate services of commercial bar prep (i.e. Bar/Bri, KaplanPMBR companies with student and VLS needs
- working in conjunction with the assistant dean of academic affairs and the assistant director of the Academic Success Program to ensure implementation of approved, reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities
- hire, train and supervise academic success program staff including the assistant director, program coordinator, and student mentors
- manage the general operations of the department including the budget, short and long-term department goals, metrics, and strategies, and coordination of offerings within the department and with other departments and individual faculty members
- assist the associate dean of student affairs and diversity in design and implementation of orientation activities for incoming students (i.e. the academic component of orientation programs )
- provide individual counseling and tutoring for students in regards to study habits, skills, tools for improvement, etc.
- contribute to the academic success community through research
Qualifications
The successful candidate must have a BA, a JD and be licensed to practice law. Additionally, experience in higher education, teaching, and in actual practice of law and knowledge of legal theories, legal analytical and writing skills, ADA, and FERPA are required.
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