{"id":9102,"date":"2012-01-13T15:34:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T20:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=9102"},"modified":"2012-01-13T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T20:34:28","slug":"academic-success-program-in-transition-interim-co-directors-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2012\/01\/13\/academic-success-program-in-transition-interim-co-directors-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Success Program in Transition &#8211; Interim Co-Directors in place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Late last semester, Academic Success Program Director Katherine Silver Kelly resigned to take a similar position at The Ohio State University. We immediately initiated a search for her replacement. We hope to have a new Director in place by March 1, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Several students have expressed interest in the future of the program. We have involved those students in the search process as their schedules have permitted. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">In the interim, the Academic Success Program office is open. The office is staffed by the library in the mornings and on Tuesday afternoons. You may continue to obtain materials from the ASP library, and the ASP Mentors and Assistants will continue their work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Professor Steven Cook and Adjunct Professor Kani Hightower have agreed to serve as Interim Co-Directors of the Academic Success Program. Please see them if you have concerns about your academic work or if you want to enhance your academic progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">&#8211;<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Professor Cook will be in the ASP office on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons. <\/span><a href=\"mailto:Steven4@uakron.edu\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Steven4@uakron.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">&#8211;<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Professor Hightower will be in the ASP office on Thursday afternoons. <\/span><a href=\"mailto:Khh1@uakron.edu\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Khh1@uakron.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">You may also see Assistant Dean Thorpe about any aspect of the law school experience. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">In particular, if you have questions about your schedule, the credits needed to graduate, or the design of your academic program, you should see Dean Thorpe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><strong>If you have questions regarding graduation requirements and credit hours earned\/to be completed<\/strong>, please:\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">(1) Consult your DARS report on ZipLine;\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">(2)\u00a0 Complete the courtesy graduation audit check sheet for your entering class on the Student Services page;\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">(3)\u00a0 Refer to your Law Student Handbook which is also on the Student Services page;\u00a0 and <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">(4) If you are still uncertain as to whether or not you are on track to graduate, please email your specific question to College Program Specialist Liz Sauders at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:liz@uakron.edu\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">liz@uakron.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dean Thorpe can also assist you, but you should start with Ms. Sauders to quickly assess and resolve your situation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If your situation is complicated, you can schedule a meeting with Dean Thorpe by emailing her at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:LThorpe@uakron.edu\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">LThorpe@uakron.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">If you have any concerns about the Academic Success Program, please see or contact Associate Dean Jordan, <\/span><a href=\"mailto:Jordan@uakron.edu\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Jordan@uakron.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last semester, Academic Success Program Director Katherine Silver Kelly resigned to take a similar position at The Ohio State University. We immediately initiated a search for her replacement. We hope to have a new Director in place by March 1, 2012. Several students have expressed interest in the future of the program. We have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2012\/01\/13\/academic-success-program-in-transition-interim-co-directors-in-place\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Academic Success Program in Transition &#8211; Interim Co-Directors in place&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"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-9102","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\/9102","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\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9104,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions\/9104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}