UC Irvine School of Law is hiring an Academic Skills Program Coordinator. The successful candidate will develop, enhance, and implement various programs to assist students in the transition to law school, to promote their successful completion of the J.D. program, and to prepare them to sit for the bar exam. The Program Coordinator will work closely with the entire Academic Skills Program team, students, faculty and the law school administrative staff.
The full job description including requirements can be found at:
https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF05176
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1. The position advertised: ___ a. is a tenure-track appointment. ___ b. may lead to successive long-term contracts of five or more years. _x_ c. may lead only to successive short-term contracts of one to four years. (Full Time Position) ___ d. has an upper-limit on the number of years a teacher may be appointed. ___ e. is part of a fellowship program for one or two years. ___ f. is a part-time appointment, or a year-to-year adjunct appointment. (One-Year Visitorship only)
___ g. is for at will employment.
2. The professor hired: ___ a. will be permitted to vote on all matters at faculty meetings.
___ b. will be permitted to vote in faculty meetings on matters except those pertaining to hiring, tenure, and promotion. _x_ c. will not be permitted to vote in faculty meetings.
3. The school anticipates paying an annual academic year base salary in the range checked below. (A base salary does not include stipends for coaching moot court teams, teaching other courses, or teaching in summer school; a base salary does not include conference travel or other professional development funds.) ___ over $120,000 ___ $110,000 – $119,999 ___ $100,000 – $109,999 ___ $90,000 – $99,999 _x_ $80,000 – $89,999 _x_ $70,000 – $79,999 ___ $60,000 – $69,999 ___ $50,000 – $59,999 ___ $40, 000-49,999 ___ this is a part-time appointment paying less than $30,000 ___ this is an adjunct appointment paying less than $10,000
4. The person hired will have the title of:
___ a. Associate Dean (including Dean of Students).
___ b. Director.
___ c. Professor (tenure track).
___ d. Professor (clinical tenure track or its equivalent).
___ e. Professor (neither tenure track nor clinical tenure track).
___ f. no title.
_x_ g. other (Program Coordinator; but when teaching classes, students will refer to you as Professor)
5. Job responsibilities include:
__ a. working with students whose predicators (LSAT and University GPA) suggest they will struggle to excel in law school.
_x_ b. working with students who performed relatively poorly on their law school examinations or other assessments.
_x_ c. working with diverse students.
_x_ d. managing orientation.
_x_ e. teaching ASP-related classes (case briefing, synthesis, analysis, etc.).
_x_ f. teaching bar-exam related classes.
_x_ g. working with students on an individual basis.
_x_ h. teaching other law school courses.
6. The person hired will be present in the office and work regularly during the summer months (June – August).
_x_ a. Yes.
___ b. No.
7. The person hired is required to publish, in some form, in order to maintain employment.
___ a. Yes.
_x_ b. No.
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