Category: General Announcements

The deadline to request exam rescheduling due to conflict or weekend need or accommodations as provided through the Office of Accessibility is this Friday, April 10, 2015.  If you have to reschedule a Saturday or Sunday exam due to religious reasons or have a conflict please email Asst. Dean Ivy Banks at ikw1@uakron.edu.  If you have approved accommodations by the Office of Accessibility and are requesting the use of those accommodations for your exams, please complete the Special Exam Accommodation Request form and submit it to Misty D. Franklin at misty@uakron.edu.

We are quickly coming up on the end of the term.  Next week (April 13-17) is the last of your ASP Group Sessions. The following week is exam simulations. The exam questions will be released through their respective ASP TWEN pages at 4:45 on their respective dates (see below), and the answers at 6:00 on the same dates. The simulated exams will be held as follows:

Civil Procedure: April 20th , Room 301 (Library) at 5:00-6:00 pm
Property: April 21st, Room 165 at 5:00-6:00 pm
Criminal Law: April 22nd, Room 165 at 5:00-6:00 pm

Congratulations on making it through your spring term! You are nearly done! 

If you have any questions, please let me know!

~Assistant Dean Palmer (Room 136E, Dean’s Suite; dpalmer1@uakron.edu)

The 2015 Class Gift will establish the Student Emergency Fund, which will be available to all law students at the times when they need financial help the most. This fund is intended to help students when they might ordinarily have to choose between educational and personal expenses. The Student Emergency Fund will be available to help students in a variety of emergency financial situations from rent assistance to pet or automotive care needs. Students will not need to repay the money they receive; it’s just there to help.

Thanks to our first Class of 2015 participants:

• Jill Machniak-Gallagher
• Lisa Owings

 

Here are all of the ways you can give to the Student Emergency Fund:

• Online at www.lawalum.uakron.edu/classgift.
• Forms are available in the School of Law Dean’s Office.
• Gifts made in support of Professor Huhn’s “walk into retirement” will also be counted toward participation in the 2015 class gift, if designated to the Student Emergency Fund. For more information and to give, please visit startsomegood.com/studentlegacy2015. Please note that Students Embracing a Legacy is not affiliated with or sponsored by The University of Akron School of Law.

For any questions or concerns, please contact Lia Thompson at lme18@uakron.edu or by phone at (330) 972-5298.

Today, Students Embracing a Legacy (SEAL), a grassroots organization, is launching a campaign to celebrate Professor Huhn’s retirement and you can join in!

On May 31st, 2015, Professor Huhn will retire after 31 years of teaching.  He is “stepping into retirement” by walking 25 miles through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park April 18-19 and will end his walk here at the law school the morning of April 20th – just in time to teach his last Con Law class.  Professor Huhn hopes students, friends, faculty, staff and members of the community will join him on the walk.  In his tradition of giving to others, Professor Huhn has pledged to donate $20 per mile he walks to the new Student Emergency Fund – the Class of 2015’s class gift.

In honor of Professor Huhn’s legacy and his dedication to public service, and to encourage others to follow his example, Students Embracing a Legacy, has developed this fundraiser, designed around his walk.  Their crowd funding campaign on Start Some Good starts today and is a way for you to follow Professor Huhn’s example of giving to others. (startsomegood.com/studentlegacy2015).

Donors will have the option of choosing whether they would like their funds to support the Student Emergency Fund or the Public Administration and Urban Studies Student Association Student Support Fund.  Information regarding both funds is available on the Start Some Good site and the group’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/studentlegacy2015.

 

Bonus for Graduating 3Ls:  Your donation to the University of Akron School of Law Class Gift for 2015 can be made through the Start Some Good site! Your donation via the link above will count toward your class gift donation and will be included in the graduation packet. Just choose to donate to any level of the Student Emergency Fund and SEAL will submit your name to the law school as a donor to the Class of 2015 Class Gift.  You can support Professor Huhn, donate to the class gift and help a student in need all with one donation!

 

Please visit their Facebook page regularly to discover how to join Professor Huhn on the walk and to support the students in the Public Administration and Urban Affairs college and the Student Emergency Fund.

 

You can also follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/StudentLegacy15

Don’t forget that Akron Law has a Facebook group just for Akron Law students to find roommates or rooms for rent, or to advertise rooms for rent. As you’re looking forward to next school year, please consider joining the group and sharing information you may have on available rooms.

The group is called Akron Law – Roommate Connection, and all you have to do is search the group name, and request to join!