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In a previous blog, Susannah Pollvogt addressed the importance of assessing students’ current readiness for NextGen-style question types. But how can you develop such an assessment tool?

Academic support and bar passage are growing fields in legal education, focused on equipping students with the academic and analytical skills necessary to perform their best in law school, on the bar exam, and in practice. Will the NextGen Bar Exam elevate the work of these professionals?

How is the NextGen Bar Exam different from the current Uniform Bar Exam, and how can law schools assess students' readiness for the NextGen exam?

At the most successful law schools, responsibilities for academic support and advising, professional identity formation, career development, and employment outcomes are shared by the whole law school.

A sense of belonging is linked to many positive outcomes, such as improved mental health.

Using the PLUS Program as a model, three Texas schools developed a unique model of student-support collaborations between an HBCU and a PWI. 
By Eric Dieter

Keni Anthony says she’s always wanted to attend a historically Black university. “Ever since I was little, watching my auntie walk across the stage at Savannah State, I knew from that age that that would be me,” she says.

Kristen Juhan crunched the numbers and found her career wasn’t adding up. She’d majored in business economics in college and was working as a certified public accountant, but it wasn’t as fulfilling as she’d hoped it would be.