The Spring Advanced Legal Applications course is offered first to students graduating in May 2015 that are required to take the course. Registration will take place after the November 1st graduation application deadline to insure that all students intending to graduate have applied for graduation. Once all required students are registered for the course then any remaining seats will be registered on a first-come, first-serve basis from the waitlist. If you would like to be placed on the waiting list for the Spring offering, please email Misty D. Franklin at misty@uakron.edu indicating which sections’ waitlist you would like to be placed.
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Attn: First Year Students
First Year F-T and P-T students, please be advised that in an effort to keep the sections even, the Dean’s Office will administratively register you into your Spring courses. Please refer to the Spring Schedule Materials to see when your respective courses will meet.
Additionally, an enrollment hold has been placed on your accounts preventing you from registering for classes. You are required to attend one of the Mandatory Registration Sessions scheduled for Monday, November 17, 2014 at 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. and Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Failure to attend one of these mandatory sessions will result in the enrollment hold remaining on your account preventing you from being registered for Spring courses by the Dean’s Office.
Spring 2015 Registration Materials Now Posted
The Spring 2015 Registration Materials are now posted on the Web at: www.uakron.edu/law/curriculum/registration.dot .
You will notice several links:
• Spring 2015 Registration Materials contains the 2 page information packet and the 4 page Schedule grid. Please pay close attention to this 6 page document. Information that is not contained in MyAkron regarding add/drop dates, meeting dates and times, registration restrictions and prerequisites are contained in this document. Look it over carefully.
• Spring Schedule Overview contains a color coded visual of class meetings throughout the week.
• Spring 2015 Elective Descriptions contains the course descriptions for electives being offered during Spring 2015.
One note of advice: Please go into your MyAkron accounts to see if you have any holds on your account which will prevent you from registering at your authorized Priority Registration time. You will need to clear those up immediately in order to register.
Akron Biotech Patents Adjunct Professor Appointed Administrative Patent Judge
Adjunct Professor Kimberly McGraw, who has taught Biotech Patents at the University of Akron School of Law for several years, has been named to one of the newly created positions of Administrative Patent Judge at the US Patent and Trademark Office. We wish her the best. Unfortunately, her new duties will prevent her from teaching Biotech Patents. When she advised us of her appointment, she offered to recommend other potential teachers. We are pursuing that recommendation and will reinstitute the course if at all possible.
Fall 2014 Exam Schedule
The final examination schedule for Fall 2014 is located at:
http://www.uakron.edu/law/curriculum/registration.dot
As with every year, we took the final class lists and compared enrollment in every exam class with the enrollment in every other exam class. Based on that, we determined the number of conflicts between each class. We then scheduled the largest classes with the most graduating seniors as early in the examination period as possible, to permit them to be graded by the Monday after exam week, which permits us to meet the graduation deadline and to award honors accurately.
We will redistribute the exam schedule once room assignments are set. For any exams which require the use of multiple rooms we will also update and stagger the starting times.
The resulting exam schedule is the best schedule for spacing out exams for the vast majority of students. Inevitably, however, a few students have course loads that result in their individual schedules being less than optimum. This is unavoidable given the wide range of courses each student takes.
Conflicts: An examination conflict consists if two examinations are scheduled at the same time or three examinations are scheduled within 24 hours. Part-time students who have examinations on both the first Wednesday and first Friday of exam period, and full-time students who have three examinations between the first Wednesday and Sunday of exam period are granted relief at their option. Any student permitted to reschedule should do so with a full-time faculty member whenever possible. It is the students’ responsibility for contacting the faculty to make alternate arrangements.
Reschedule for Unexpected Illness: Students who are ill may contact the professor to reschedule an examination BEFORE the time of the examination. Once a student sits for an examination, the student must complete that examination and receive that grade. Examinations that are rescheduled due to conflict or illness must be rescheduled within exam period to the earliest available time. If illness prevents rescheduling during exam period, the examination must be scheduled no later than the start of the next semester. Students who cannot reschedule an examination before the next semester should consult with the Associate Dean or Assistant Dean of Students Services about a leave.
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