Posted inDiversity Issues
Mentors, Students, and Student Support
I recently attended a meeting of our law school alumni to talk with them about…
Posted inDiversity Issues
Disruptive Diversity
Diversity, as we have come to use the term, is a disruptor of the presumption and perpetuation of privilege. To the extent that diversity promises, or threatens, to disrupt the status quo in higher education, we are all affected.
Posted inBar Exam Issues Bar Exams Disability Matters
Stigma and Professional Identity
I challenge the status quo about how we frame bar failure as part of professional identity formation. The stigma associated with failure has to be shaken off and be replaced with positive personal development.
Posted inAdvice Bar Exam Preparation Current Affairs
The Charisma of Numbers
Today's Washington Post has a fascinating and disturbing article about the company HireVue and its…
Posted inDiversity Issues Study Tips - General
Talk to Me
As Bill MacDonald reminded us in yesterday's post, this is the time of academic potential…
Be-Long-Ing! It’s Critical to Success!
It's never too late to make a difference…a positively meaningful difference...to improve academic performance for…
Posted inAdvice Bar Exam Issues Diversity Issues
Let Me Use Words You Can Understand
Last year, one of my international students brought to me a response she had written…
Posted inAdvice Bar Exam Issues Disability Matters
A Federal Court Ruling on Bar Exam Accommodations in New York
With a hat tip to Prof. Chris Lasch... This week, a federal judge issued an…
Posted inDiversity Issues Miscellany Professionalism
Call Me Professor
The way we are addressed by our students and our peers is a reflection of perceptions about our status and our positional significance.