{"id":80607,"date":"2020-08-21T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=80607"},"modified":"2020-08-19T08:35:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T12:35:20","slug":"akron-law-alumni-association-seeks-2020-2021-associate-student-director-application-deadline-september-4-2020-500-p-m-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2020\/08\/21\/akron-law-alumni-association-seeks-2020-2021-associate-student-director-application-deadline-september-4-2020-500-p-m-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Akron Law Alumni Association seeks 2020\/2021 Associate Student Director \u2013 Application Deadline: September 4, 2020, 5:00 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Message from Andreas Ellis, Director of Alumni and Development:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Akron Law Alumni Association (\u201cLAA\u201d) Board of Directors\nhas a dedicated position on its Board for an Associate Student Director.&nbsp; This\nis a two-year appointment through June 30, 2022; the first year (2020\/2021) as\nthe Associate Student Director, and the second year (2021\/2022) transitioning\nto the Student Director position.&nbsp; The\nBoard is seeking a 1L or 2L law student in good standing for the Associate\nStudent Director position.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This unique and valuable opportunity provides the Associate\nStudent Director a chance to become involved in alumni leadership and\nactivities with the Law School.&nbsp; The Associate\nStudent Director works with the Student Director to represent Akron Law\nstudents, and works with the Student Director and Board to identify ways in\nwhich students and alumni may work and communicate together for the benefit of\nboth groups.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Associate Student Director serves in an\nex-officio capacity and is expected to attend all Board meetings which are held\nat the School of Law on a bi-monthly basis throughout the year (i.e., October,\nDecember, February, April, June, and August.)&nbsp; The Board meetings begin at\n4:30 p.m., and generally last for one and a half hours.&nbsp; The Associate\nStudent Director is also expected to attend all LAA events (i.e., the Holiday\nParty, the Student-Alumni Cocktail Party, the Akron Law Alumni Awards\nBreakfast, and any other event sponsored by the LAA.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applications for the 2020\/2021 Associate Student Director\nto the LAA Board should include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Why\nhe or she wants to serve on the LAA Board;<\/li><li>Why\nthe student believes that he or she should be selected for the position; and,<\/li><li>A\ncopy of the student\u2019s resume. &nbsp; <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The LAA Board\u2019s Nominating Committee will review the applications and select students who will be invited to interview at a mutually agreeable time in mid-September 2020.\u00a0 Students with questions should contact Andreas Ellis, Director of Alumni and Development, at <a href=\"mailto:ellis@uakron.edu\">ellis@uakron.edu<\/a> or 330-972-5298.\u00a0 Students interested in this position should e-mail their application materials to LauraLee Sales at <a href=\"mailto:lsales@uakron.edu\">lsales@uakron.edu<\/a> by 5:00 p.m., Friday, September 4, 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Student Director and Associate Student Director Responsibilities<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><u>Student Director Responsibilities<\/u>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Communicate student activities and general\nconsensus to LAA Board at regularly scheduled meetings.<\/li><li>Take notes during LAA meetings, create meeting\nminutes, and forward minutes within 48 hours of the meetings to Project\nCoordinator, Alumni and Development for final edit and distribution.<\/li><li>On the day of the regularly scheduled LAA meeting,\nconfer with Director of Alumni and Development to discuss Student Director\ntopics to be presented at that meeting.<\/li><li>Attend SBA meetings and report information to LAA\nBoard at next regularly scheduled Board meeting.<\/li><li>Promote to other law students and assist on LAA\nevents and projects as instructed by the Director of Alumni and Development,\nincluding but not limited to:<ul><li>Holiday Reception<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Cocktail Reception<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Others (TBD)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Confer with Director and Project Coordinator,\nAlumni and Development to organize and promote Q&amp;A Panel betw 1L and Alumni<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><u>Associate Student Director Responsibilities<\/u>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Learn responsibilities of and assist the Student\nDirector to orchestrate a smooth transition to the Student Director position\nthe following year. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message from Andreas Ellis, Director of Alumni and Development: The Akron Law Alumni Association (\u201cLAA\u201d) Board of Directors has a dedicated position on its Board for an Associate Student Director.&nbsp; This is a two-year appointment through June 30, 2022; the first year (2020\/2021) as the Associate Student Director, and the second year (2021\/2022) transitioning to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2020\/08\/21\/akron-law-alumni-association-seeks-2020-2021-associate-student-director-application-deadline-september-4-2020-500-p-m-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Akron Law Alumni Association seeks 2020\/2021 Associate Student Director \u2013 Application Deadline: September 4, 2020, 5:00 p.m.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80611,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80607\/revisions\/80611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}