Category: General Announcements

Spring Parking Passes

If you received a parking pass from the University for the fall semester, your pass is now invalid. You will need to pick up your spring parking pass by Monday morning to avoid parking fines. Here is the contact page for the University’s Parking Services, which gives the location of the office where you can pick your pass: https://www.uakron.edu/parking/contact-us.dothttps://www.uakron.edu/parking/contact-us.dot. When picking up your pass, you will need your ZipCard!

Dates for 2020 Barbri Diagnostic Exams for 1Ls and 2Ls – Important!

As you may know, our Partnership for Student Success with Barbri includes First and Second Year Diagnostic Exams (so-called “Baby Bar” exams). The Baby Bar diagnostic tests are designed to assess student strengths and weaknesses in particular subject areas and to give students experience taking an MBE-style multiple-choice exam. They are an important part of our program for preparing Akron Law students to succeed on the bar.

The Baby Bar diagnostics will be administered on the following dates in 2020.  Please note these dates and plan to take the exam on a date that is assigned to your cohort.

Spring 2018 and Spring 2019 starts:

  • Saturday, January 25, 2020, 9 a.m. to noon.
  • Wednesday, January 28, 2020, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Summer/Fall 2018 and Summer/Fall 2019 starts:

  • Saturday, September 5, 2020, 9 a.m. to noon
  • Thursday, September 10, 2020, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

The diagnostics consist of 120 multiple-choice questions. Like on a real MBE exam, it is estimated that it will take you 1.5 minutes to complete each question. No preparation is required to take the Baby Bar exam – the diagnostics are designed to be taken without advance studying. After the exams are administered, each student will receive an individual diagnostic report that will show where you are doing well and where you might benefit from additional work. The school will also receive each student’s individual report as well as a cohort report. We will use this information to help determine what we teach and how we teach it.

In order to ensure the completeness and integrity of the diagnostic results, every student in one of the above cohorts is required to take the Baby Bar exam. You also are required to give your best effort while taking the exam – failure to do so would make the results less reliable and defeat the purposes of the diagnostic. For these reasons, failure to take the diagnostic or to put forth your best effort may result in referral to the student disciplinary committee.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or Dean Janoski-Haehlen.Charles W. Oldfield | Assistant Dean of Student Affairs

Volunteer Tax Preparation – earn community service limited means hours!

Income Tax Preparation Volunteers Needed

Several volunteers are needed to help with ASIA’s annual income tax preparation program. This project pairs qualified volunteers with individuals in the Cleveland area that have limited English abilities, so that they can complete their income taxes before the April 15th deadline. All volunteer hours will be completed at the ASIA Cleveland Offices ( 3631 Perkins Avenue, Suite 2A-W, Cleveland, OH, 44114 ). Scheduling is extremely flexible—there is no obligation to return on a weekly basis, though it would be appreciated. This program is active Tuesday, Thursday, Friday from 10 am – 4 pm, and Saturday from 10 am – 5 pm. 

All volunteers must be 18 or older. 

Training is required to fill this role, and can be completed either online or in person. If you are interested in helping the community with income tax preparation, please contact ASIA’s new volunteer coordinator, Ben Holda, bholda@asiaohio.org.