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Australia's Matt Jones has put in a gritty display to finish joint third at the St Jude Classic in Tennessee.
The New South Welshman was in contention in the final round on Sunday but saw his title chances evaporate with back to back bogeys on the front nine, eventually finishing five shots off winner Fabian Gomez.
Jones mixed three bogeys with five birdies in a final round 68, for a share of third alongside Phil Mickelson, Seung-Yul-Noh, Michael Thompson and Brooks Koepka.
Overnight leader Gomez fired a four-under final round 66 for his first US PGA Tour title, beating England's Greg Owen by four strokes.
The Argentine finished with a flourish, rolling in a 30-foot putt for his fifth birdie of the day at the final hole.
He became the first Argentinian since Angel Cabrera at last year's Greenbrier Classic to win on the US Tour.
Birdies at the third and seventh saw Owen pull two ahead as Gomez was even for the day through seven after a birdie and a bogey.
But Gomez birdied the par-three eighth, and Owen bogeyed nine and they were level again, Gomez then taking the lead for good with a seven-foot birdie putt at the 11th.
Owen dropped his tee shot in the water en route to a bogey at the 12th, and dropped another shot when he missed the green at the par-three 14th.
The Englishman's birdie at 15 pulled him within two, but Gomez responded with a birdie from a greenside bunker at the par-five 16th.
"Today, I tried to play the same way I played the first three days," Gomez said. "If I got nervous, I thought about something else and that helped keep my mind blank."
Five-time major champion Phil Mickelson, tuning up for the US Open that starts on Thursday at Chambers Bay in Washington state, gave himself some momentum.
"I'm feeling a lot better about heading into the US Open after this week than I did after last," said Mickelson, who had eight birdies and three bogeys on Sunday.
Reigning FedExCup champion Billy Horschel also closed with a 65 to share eighth place on 273. He was in a group that included Boo Weekley, Chad Campbell and Scotland's Russel Knox.

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White Lodge Hotel is a 4 star guest house ideally positioned just a short walk away from Bowness Bay and the picturesque shores of Lake Windermere, England s largest and perhaps most beautiful lake. This traditional family owned Lake District Hotel is set in a Victorian country house Whether preparing for a day out on the Lake District fells, visiting a tourist attraction, or relaxing during the evening. guests will enjoy the warm and friendly atmosphere of one of the regions traditional Lake District Hotels. All of the spacious rooms are luxuriously decorated and furnished including all modern comforts you would expect of a traditional lake district hotel. Some rooms enjoy lake views, all have en-suite bathrooms, flat screen televisions and complimentary tea and coffee making facilities & free WiFi. A traditional Full English Breakfast is served in the stylish dining room with its fine antique furniture and relaxed atmosphere or in complete contrast the bistro with its glass tables & cool atmosphere from 08:30 - 09:15 am. Staff are attentive without being obtrusive. Surrounded by magnificent scenery in the heart of the English Lake District,Bowness-on-Windermere is the ideal centre for touring the whole area and in minutes guests can be sailing, exploring the lakeside footpaths or the nearby fells, or visiting the homes of William Wordsworth, Ruskin, Coleridge and Beatrix Potter. Shoppers and browsers will delight in the speciality stores and attractions in nearby Windermere and Bowness. Whilst a drive over the Hard Knott pass is for the courageous with its 1 in 3 and 2.5 gradients - but the views are spectacular. Please note, if you expect to arrive at the hotel after 9pm please call in advance to ensure staff are present to check you in. White Lodge has its own large carparks. Also the hotel does not accept Stag or hen parties. Also Guests can only book a maximum amount of 4 rooms per reservation.
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I lifted the pillow next to hers and saw a 10-inch butcher knife, lying at the ready.
She explained that her alarm system and phone service were on the blink and that they were somehow tied together, electronically. The knife was Plan B.
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With this edit link https://www.jotform.com/edit/335427991221478124. I checked all the Multi File Upload fields and majority are filled with test data. This means that the edit link is working and pulled out the previously submitted data.
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Therapist Cherishes Her Theatrical Past
By ALVIN KLEIN
Published: December 31, 1989
CALL on Carol Ilson expecting to discuss the book she wrote about the producer Harold Prince during summers at her Ocean Beach retreat and it is just as likely she willtalk about her life as a psychotherapist.
Indeed, anyone in the throes of an identity crisis might be relieved to know that years of being psychoanalyzed enabled Dr. Ilson to conclude, confidently:
''You don't have to be just one person.''
As for addressing her as doctor, that is fine, she says, so long as it is clear that the appellation refers to a Ph.D. in theater history from the City University of New York, one of four graduate degrees she holds. The others are master's degrees in directing (Hunter College), philosophy (City University) and psychiatric social work (Adelphi University).
Once a dancer - ''Tops in Taps'' is how she remembers her billing in clubs in the Catskills and on Long Island in the 1950's - Dr. Ilson, who ''was just a high school graduate'' at the time, gave up a show business career in 1956. This was one year after she married Bernard Ilson, a manager and theatrical agent, who now owns a public relations company in Manhattan.
''Bernie came to see me at a club in Merrick, became my manager, got me auditions for TV and booked me out of the business,'' Dr. Ilson said.
The Ilsons moved from New York City to Fresh Meadows, Queens, and then to Jamaica Estates, where they still reside. They have been spending summers on Fire Island for 24 years.
''I hung up my dancing shoes and devoted myself to mothering,'' Dr. Ilson said, mentioning the couple's two sons, David, now 30 years old, and James, 28.
While her sons were growing up, their mother attended Queens College, where she stayed on to teach drama and dance after graduating in 1975. Tiring of teaching - ''I felt I was repeating myself; I needed something else in my life,'' she said - Dr. Ilson followed in the footsteps of her son, David.
A psychoanalyst who lives in Cedarhurst, works at a counseling center in Woodmere and has a practice in Rockville Centre, he told his mother that she was a ''born counselor.''
''My instant response was, 'Please don't send me back to school again,' '' Dr. Ilson recalled.
Both Ilson sons are double career men. James is an artist who works in San Francisco as the produce manager of a health-food store.
''And being a jazz pianist was David's first career,'' his mother said.
Now a licensed therapist in New York State, Dr. Ilson is halfway through a three-year program at the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. How did the Prince book come about?
Said Dr. Ilson, who also has dabbled in directing Off Off Broadway (her credits include ''Line,'' the play by Israel Horovitz that is now in its 14th year as a non-Equity showcase production in Greenwich Village):
''I started watching Hal's career ever since we saw 'She Loves Me,' the first show he directed, and I knew how he made musicals change, how ground-breaking his work was.'' Conducted 35 Interviews
Her work on the book included 35 interviews, including sessions with George Abbott, Mr. Prince's mentor, and Stephen Sondheim, who, Dr. Ilson said, was ''a stickler for perfection.''
''He went over every word about every show he was associated with,'' she said. In addition, she spoke with Mr. Prince six times. Once labeled a wunderkind, Mr. Prince made his Broadway co-producing debut with ''The Pajama Game'' in 1954 at the age of 26.
As a producer (''West Side Story,'' ''Fiddler on the Roof'') and director - his innovative collaborations with Mr. Sondheim include ''Cabaret,'' ''Follies'' and ''Sweeney Todd'' - he has made an indelible impact on the theater.
In his foreword to the book, Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist, writes that Dr. Ilson's account of Mr. Prince's career parallels ''the history of the development of the musical theater over the past 35 years.''
''The book is a historical look at his career,'' Dr. Ilson said. ''It's not titillating. There are no wild secrets, but you get a picture of the man.''
The book, which is entitled ''Harold Prince: From 'Pajama Game' to 'Phantom of the Opera' '' and was published by UMI Research Press this year, originally ended with a chapter headed ''A String of Valiant Attempts.'' That recalled six commercial failures for Mr. Prince, from ''Merrily We Roll Along'' (1981) to ''Roza'' (1987).
''It was a bad luck time for Hal,'' Dr. Ilson said, ''and I couldn't get the book published.
''Then came a reversal: a revival of 'Cabaret' and Hal's greatest success so far: 'Phantom.' When that opened in London, UMI expressed interest in the book.'' On a growing career in therapy, Dr. Ilson commented: ''The only drawback is that it's sedentary. But I only miss tap dancing once in a while. Anyway, this is not bad for an old hoofer.
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Now that the most divisive election in American history is over and Donald Trump has been elected president, we know we have avoided a Hillary Clinton presidency, which would have been the most pro-abortion presidency ever. President-elect Trump will now nominate at least one, and perhaps more, Supreme Court justices, and as we know those justices are vital to ending legalized abortion and the scourge of doctor-prescribed suicide. He will appoint numerous federal officials and work with a House and Senate of his own party. He has espoused a number of pro-life policy positions as well. We must now pray that he and the Congress hold to those promises.
In Massachusetts, we saw a number of pro-life candidates win or hold seats on Beacon Hill, and we need them to stand strong for legislation that protects women and babies and against legislation that puts the elderly, sick, and disabled at risk.
Meanwhile, as we continue the work we're all doing locally to fight for the lives of the unborn, for the elderly and terminally ill, and all those cast aside by the culture of death, Massachusetts Citizens for Life asks you to join us in a Prayer Pledge for America.
Please join us in praying for the future of our great country in whatever spiritual tradition speaks to you. We need all Americans to join us in prayer that, as the song "America the Beautiful" says, God will bless America to mend her every flaw, confirm her soul in self-control, and her liberty in law.
As inspiration we share here with you, George Washington's prayer for America in a letter he addressed to the governors of all the states on the disbanding of the Army following the War for Independence:
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ABOUT THE DIABETIC COMPLICATIONS CONSORTIUM (DiaComp):
The goal of the NIDDK-sponsored Diabetic Complications Consortium (DiaComp) is to advance the study of diabetic complications and promote communication and collaboration between investigators involved in complications research by supporting scientific meetings and funding new research activities.
Diabetic Foot Ulcers – Planning Activities for Clinical Biomarker Studies
Applications requesting up to $100,000 in total costs for one year are due March 10, 2017.
Diabetic foot ulcers are the most common cause of non-traumatic lower leg amputation in the United States. Despite efforts to prevent and treat foot ulcers, each year about 70,000 Americans with diabetes will lose part of their lower extremity because a foot ulcer becomes infected or does not heal. An obstacle to the development of therapies is the paucity of validated biomarkers that assess healing, infection, and recurrence risk, and validated outcomes that measure patient satisfaction and quality of life. In addition, systematic reviews of clinical studies on the prevention and management of diabetic foot ulcers consistently point to the urgent need for clinical trials with standardized definitions, outcomes, biomarkers, and protocols that will enable a thorough evaluation of treatments and comparison of results across trials.
The purpose of this program is to support
planning activities
for the development of a multi-center study for clinical biomarkers and outcome measures for diabetic foot ulcers. It is also part of an effort by the NIDDK to support clinical studies that involve two or more institutions to build a collaborative framework for ongoing research on diabetic wound healing.
Applications should propose a future clinical study based on the criteria listed below. The application should include a rationale for the future clinical study, documenting significance and need, and describe the potential impact of the clinical study on biomarkers and research infrastructure. Preliminary results and background to support the study and an overview of the study design should be provided. The latter should include an estimate of the number of subjects, entry criteria, and outcome measures. In addition, the application should describe the
planning activities
proposed to be conducted during the single year of this program. These may include meetings to develop the protocol, focus groups for the patient-centered outcomes, clinical studies to obtain preliminary data, quality control testing of patient sample analysis, biostatistical analysis to develop sample size calculations, or analysis of databases to inform recruitment strategies. The goal of the
planning activities
is to develop a complete study protocol for the validation of a biomarker or outcome measure for diabetic foot ulcers.
The future, proposed clinical study should meet the following criteria:
The proposed study should address a significant gap in ulcer and patient assessment that obstructs progress in clinical research or patient care in this area. A biomarker that would fill a critical need for clinical research, but due to its complexity or expense, may not be practical for widespread adoption, would still be responsive to this program.
The future clinical study should be supported by preliminary data or published results that justify a multi-site clinical study. Discovery research, such as an "-omics" approach to wound samples, is not appropriate for this program. Obtaining additional preliminary data that would support the clinical study, can be proposed as a
planning activity.
The scope of the project can range from a biomarker of a specific process of wound healing or infection to a broad model with a multi-factorial prediction of healing.
The proposed clinical study must involve recruitment of new subjects at multiple institutions. The use of stored samples or databases could be used to augment findings in the main study. A goal of this program is to foster collaboration in the standardization of protocols. The application for
planning activities
can come from a single institution, but should discuss the organization of multi-site clinical study and plans to recruit additional sites.
The research needs to focus exclusively on subjects with diabetes. The biomarker may be applicable to wound healing in non-diabetic subjects, but the proposed clinical study should only include subjects with diabetes. The study may propose to exam a subgroup of patients with diabetes, such as patients with end-stage renal disease, if it is justified scientifically.
It is anticipated that the NIDDK will publish a future FOA for a Cooperative Agreement for a Data Coordinating Center (DCC) to coordinate multi-site, clinical studies on diabetic foot ulcers. In conjunction with the NIDDK, the DCC will request the completed study proposals in Spring, 2018 and convene an External Evaluation Committee to make recommendations on the priority of the studies for implementation by the investigators and the DCC. Study proposals will not be limited to awardees from this DiaComp program.
Topics for a clinical study include, but are not limited to:
Molecular or histologic detection of infection and biofilms in diabetic wounds.
Surrogate end-points that when applied early in treatment can predict eventual healing.
Assessment of the healed skin that can be used as an outcome measure and predictive biomarker for recurrence.
Cellular markers of inflammation and regeneration that assess the effect of surgical and medical therapies.
Risk factor models that combine wound and patient characteristics to predict healing or recurrence.
Patient questionnaires and clinical scales to assess patient satisfaction, quality of life, and function with treatment and outcomes.
Applications for the Collaborative Funding Program are only accepted from 10/28/2016 12:00:00 AM to 3/10/2017 11:59:59 PM.
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The application budget needs to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project and cannot exceed $100,000 in total costs (direct + F&A costs). The project period is one year. The program anticipates funding up to five awards, which is dependent upon the number, quality, and cost of the applications received. Awards will be made as subcontracts from the DiaComp Coordinating and Bioinformatics Unit (CBU) at the Augusta University and not directly by the NIH.
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For instructions on how to submit a Collaborative Funding Program Application to the DiaComp web portal please click the following link:
Funding Program Application Submission Basic Training (PDF)
All applications must be submitted via the DiaComp website (PDF format only please).
The application is the standard
PHS 398 form
including face page, abstract, detailed budget, Biosketch, and research plan. The research plan (Sections A-D are limited to 6 pages) should include the following sections:
Specific Aims for the one year
planning activities
(one page),
Significance of the proposed biomarker or outcome measure for patient care or therapy development;
Preliminary or Published Studies to support further validation of the proposed biomarker or outcome measure,
A Summary of the Proposed Clinical Study that includes a description of:
The study population,
The methods for obtaining and measuring the biomarker,
The biostatistical justification of the study size and plan for analysis of the results,
The organization of the study leadership, personnel and sites including plans for developing a standardized protocol across institutions.
Literature Cited,
Eligible Project Directors/Principal Investigators:
Individuals with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research are invited to work with their institution to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.
Eligible Organizations:
Public/State Controlled Institution of Higher Education; Private Institution of Higher Education; Hispanic-serving Institution; Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs); Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions; Nonprofit with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institution of Higher Education); Nonprofit without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institution of Higher Education); Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entity; Small Business; For-Profit Organization (Other than Small Business); State Government; Regional Organization; U.S. Territory or Possession; Indian/Native American Tribal Government (Federally Recognized); Indian/Native American Tribal Government (Other than Federally Recognized); Indian/Native American Tribally Designated Organization; Eligible agencies of the Federal government; Faith-based or community based organizations; Foreign institutions.
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Each application will receive a primary review by multiple external referees and be given scores for Significance, Investigator, Innovation, Approach, Environment and an Overall Score based on the
NIH Scoring System for Research Applications
. Scores will range from 1 to 9, where a score of 1-3 indicates an application addressing a problem of high importance/interest and may have some or no weaknesses. A score of 4-6 may be addressing a problem of high importance, but weaknesses in the criteria bring down the overall impact to medium. A score of 7-9 may be addressing a problem of moderate/high importance, but weaknesses in the criteria bring down the overall impact to low.
Reviewers will strongly consider the goal of the program to support the development of clinical studies of biomarkers and patient-centered outcomes for diabetic foot ulcers.
A funding program specific External Evaluation Committee (EEC) will provide a secondary review of all applications. Applications that are incomplete, non-compliant and/or nonresponsive will not be reviewed. No additional materials may be submitted after the receipt date. Written comments will be provided for all reviewed applications. Final funding decisions will be made by the NIH. All decisions are final and appeals will not be accepted for applications submitted in response to this solicitation. Funded awards are not allowed to submit a competitive renewal application and unfunded applications are not allowed to revise and resubmit an amended application.
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November 3, 2016
Announcement of DiaComp Biomarker Project is posted on DiaComp website, and other related websites
December 16, 2016
Q&A Webinar on this announcement. Contact
Teresa Jones
for an invitation.
March 10, 2017
Receipt date for applications that are submitted to CBU (Dr. Richard McIndoe, CA 4127, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, 30912)
May 31, 2017
Projected start date for Planning Activities funding
Spring, 2018
Full clinical study proposals are submitted to the Data Coordinating Center for evaluation.
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Research involving human subjects is limited to observational studies with non-invasive or minimally invasive testing and must have IRB approval that includes the collection and use of human samples for research purposes. Interventional clinical trials are beyond the scope of this program. The use of tissue from debridement or surgical procedures that are part of routine clinical care is acceptable.
Foreign institutions and organizations are eligible for support
A summary of progress of funded projects is due two months following the completion of the funding period.
DiaComp awardees must follow NIH and HHS policies regarding the sharing of data and resources with the scientific community (
) and agree to submit to the DiaComp web portal all data and resources resulting from the execution of the awarded application.
Proprietary data and resources will be excluded from sharing consistent with NIH and HHS policies (
Financial acknowledgment of award:
Please acknowledge all posters, manuscripts or scientific materials that were generated in part or whole using funds from the Diabetic Complications Consortium (DiaComp) using the following text: 'Financial support for this work provided by the NIDDK Diabetic Complications Consortium (DiaComp, www.diacomp.org), grant DK076169'.
For presentations and slides, please use the PowerPoint slide with the funding source logo found in the zip file here -
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Richard McIndoe, Ph.D. (Coordinator)
Coordinating and Bioinformatics Unit
Augusta University
Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine
1120 15th Street, CA4124
Augusta, GA 30912-4810
Phone: 706-721-3542
Fax: 706-721-3688
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An appellate judge has overturned an Augusta death sentence imposed nearly 21 years ago.
Judge John E. Morse Jr. ruled Ernest U. Morrison's convictions for rape, robbery and murder should stand, but the death sentence must be reversed for ineffective assistance of counsel.
Mr. Morrison's lead defense attorney, O.L. Collins, not only did not do anything to prepare for trial, he advocated for a death sentence for his client, wrote Judge Morse, of the Eastern Judicial Circuit, who was assigned Mr. Morrison's habeas corpus petition, an appellate step in which the defendant challenges the legality of his punishment.
Mr. Morrison, 47, pleaded guilty in Richmond County Superior Court and waived his right to a jury trial on the issue of punishment. He was sentenced to death for the Jan. 9, 1987, murder of Mary Edna Griffin.
District Attorney Ashley Wright, the latest prosecutor to inherit the case in the past two decades, received a copy of the judge's 55-page order Thursday.
"We have to talk to the (victim's) family and digest the order before making any final decision," Ms. Wright said.
Russ Williard of the attorney general's office, which defends the state when death row cases are appealed, said attorneys are reviewing the decision. Either side may appeal Judge Morse's ruling to the Georgia Supreme Court, or Mr. Morrison's case could be returned to Augusta for a new sentencing trial.
Mrs. Griffin, 54, and her husband had allowed Mr. Morrison to stay at their home for a few days. They didn't know he had just escaped from a South Carolina jail.
Judge Morse noted in his ruling that evidence of Mr. Morrison's guilt was so overwhelming, nothing an attorney did would have changed the conviction. Thus, he found no reason to set aside the guilty plea.
The same was not true of the death sentence, the judge wrote.
The 1987 sentencing judge might have been swayed to sentence Mr. Morrison to life in prison instead of death, but his attorneys did nothing to uncover and present such evidence, Judge Morse wrote. Mr. Collins, now deceased, did not even read the discovery provided by the prosecutor, he wrote. The second attorney appointed two weeks before trial simply did not have time to prepare, the judge wrote.
Mr. Collins' failure to investigate was aggravated by his actual advocacy for a death sentence, Judge Morse wrote. Mr. Collins even concocted evidence to support his argument that Mr. Morrison deserved to die, he wrote.
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JAN. 9, 1987: Ernest Morrison rapes and murders Mary Edna Griffin.
OCT. 30-NOV. 2, 1987: Mr. Morrison pleads guilty and receives a death sentence.
NOV. 10, 1988: Georgia's Supreme Court affirms on direct appeal.
AUG. 9, 1989: Mr. Morrison files a state habeas corpus petition.
SEPT. 16, 1992: A habeas judge orders a new trial for Mr. Morrison on the issue of mental retardation and sends the case back to Richmond County Superior Court.
MARCH 5, 1999: A jury rules that Mr. Morrison is not mentally retarded. Three more years pass before a trial court denies a motion for a new trial.
APRIL 8, 2005: An amended habeas corpus petition is filed for Mr. Morrison.
APRIL 18: A judge rules Mr. Morrison is entitled to a new sentencing trial.


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In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the factors that allowed Asian international adoption to flourish. In Global Families, Catherine Ceniza Choy unearths the little-known historical origins of Asian international adoption in the United States. Beginning with the post-World War II presence of the U.S. military in Asia, she reveals how mixed-race children born of Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese women and U.S. servicemen comprised one of the earliest groups of adoptive children.
Based on extensive archival research, Global Families moves beyond one-dimensional portrayals of Asian international adoption as either a progressive form of U.S. multiculturalism or as an exploitative form of cultural and economic imperialism. Rather, Choy acknowledges the complexity of the phenomenon, illuminating both its radical possibilities of a world united across national, cultural, and racial divides through family formation and its strong potential for reinforcing the very racial and cultural hierarchies it sought to challenge.
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Sunday, September 4, 2016
Congratulations to Scott Johns
Congratulations to Scott Johns! He was a awarded a Top Ten Badge by the Texas State Bar's Texas Bar Today for his August 25th posting Alone . . . or Perhaps . . . Not Quite So Alone as 1L Students?
September 4, 2016 in Academic Support Spotlight | Permalink | Comments (0)
Saturday, September 3, 2016
New Director of the Critical Skills Program at Nova Southeastern
Congratulations to Sara Berman on her new position at Nova Southeastern!
Sara Berman has been named the new Director of the Critical Skills Program at Nova Southeastern University in South Florida. Many of us know Sara as a long time member of the ASP and bar prep community in California, most recently as the Assistant Dean of Academic Support and Bar Support at Whittier Law School in Orange County. Previously she was at Concord Law School and UWLA, both in Los Angeles. As a brand new graduate of UCLA she began lecturing on the California bar exam on her own and was an early adopter in online legal education. In addition to law teaching, Berman has lectured for bar reviews for decades and the author of numerous articles as well as the ABA's Pass the Bar Exam: A Practical Guide to Achieving Academic and Professional Goals and its companion teacher's manual. She is very excited to be moving to the Southeast where she will be closer to where her twins are attending college.
September 3, 2016 in Academic Support Spotlight | Permalink | Comments (0)
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Are you a new ASP or bar prep professional at your law school? Did you change law schools/positions?
At the beginning of each academic semester, we like to introduce ASP or bar professionals who are new to their law schools or who have changed locations? We want to post an academic spotlight about you so that you are introduced to the community of readers if you are new and so readers know your news if you have moved to a different law school.
If you would like for us to post an academic spotlight about you (or a colleague at your school who is too shy to send us something), please send the following information to Amy Jarmon at firstname.lastname@example.com. I will be doing posts throughout September and early October.
Here is what I need from you for a spotlight post:
- A small jpeg photo.
- Your full name, title, and law school information.
- 100 - 200 words telling us about yourself: when you started your job, what you were doing before your position, your JD school, your legal practice experience/specialties, your interests professionally and personally.
- A link to your faculty/staff profile on your law school web pages if one exists.
We look forward to welcoming you to our terrific community of colleagues and updating folks on your career. (Amy Jarmon)
August 27, 2016 in Academic Support Spotlight | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, August 4, 2016
ASP-ers as Coaches? Perhaps!
"A great sports instructor or coach builds us up, but also teaches us important lessons of emotional management, such as confidence, perseverance, resilience and how to conquer fear and anxiety. Many times, these lessons have a permanent impact on our mind-set and attitude well beyond the playing field." So says columnist Elizabeth Bernstein in her article: "A Coach's Influence Off the Field." http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-coachs-influence-off-the-field-1470073923?tesla=y
That got me thinking about life…my life as an Academic Support Professional. With the start of a new academic year upon us, perhaps this is an opportunity - as Goldie Pritchard puts it - to try something new. So, I've been thinking and reflecting about my life as an ASP-er, and, in particular, that I might focus on something new--serving as a coach to our law students.
You see, and this is where the rub is, the most significant teachers in my life have, well, not just been teachers. Rather, they've been more than teachers; they've been coaches. And, not just sport coaches. More like life coaches. Whether they were teaching political science or trying to help me throw a ball, they all left indelible imprints, imprints that made me a better person and that went well beyond the classroom (or the baseball field)...because they taught me lessons that were much bigger than just about political science or baseball.
Let me give you an example from political science. I once had a professor by the name of Sandel. No offense, but I can't recall the principles of Kant's categorical imperative or Hannah Arndt's political theories. But, I can vividly remember something much more important that I learned, in particular, to call people by their name…to invite students to comment and participate…to let people speak…by truly listening to them. Those were lessons well given.
Or, in another context regarding life's many daily struggles, as Bernstein sums up in her column, coaches teach us lessons that help us when the going gets tough, for example, in Bernstein's words, "...when I'm on deadline or giving a speech to an intimidating crowd: You need to arrest a negative thought immediately, in midair. Remind yourself that you are competent and know what you're doing. Slow your breath." Let me be frank. Those are the lessons that got me through law school. And, I learned them through teachers that were, really, coaches.
Thus, as we begin to embark on a new academic season, perhaps I should focus more on coaching. After all, our work brings us in contact with people that are really struggling over learning to be learners in a new learning environment…an environment that we call law school...with people that need us to coach. So, what does a coach do? According to Bernstein, a coach says things that change our lives for the better…and for ever, such as:
"You rock!"
"Great job in difficult circumstances."
"You should be really proud of yourself."
But, in my own words, a coach, first and foremost, listens and observes others. That I can do, if only, I'd stop talking so much! (Scott Johns)
August 4, 2016 in Academic Support Spotlight, Advice, Encouragement & Inspiration, Learning Styles, Orientation, Professionalism, Stress & Anxiety | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sunday, July 31, 2016
Congratulations to Goldie Pritchard
Congratulations to Goldie Pritchard! She was a awarded a Top Ten Badge by the Texas State Bar's Texas Bar Today for her July 27th posting The Bar Exam Is Over, Now What.
July 31, 2016 in Academic Support Spotlight | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, June 20, 2016
Congratulations to Alex Ruskell
Congratulations to Alex Ruskell who was a awarded a Top Ten Badge by the Texas State Bar's Texas Bar Today for his June 3rd posting Goldilocks and the Bar Exam.
June 20, 2016 in Academic Support Spotlight | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, May 16, 2016
Congratulations to Katherine Silver Kelly
Hat tip to Mary Beth Beazley for telling us the news from Ohio State. Congratulations to Katherine Silver Kelly, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of Academic Support Program at Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, on her selection as Professor of the Year by the graduating class. Katherine works in legal writing and ASP and is in her fourth year at Ohio State. Her faculty profile is here: Professor Katherine Silver Kelly. Below is a picture of Katherine giving her speech at this year's graduation.
May 16, 2016 in Academic Support Spotlight | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Welcome Louisa Heiny to the ASP/Bar Prep Profession
Please join me welcoming Louisa Heiny to our community. Louisa began at University of Utah Law School in January 2016. Please take the time to chat with her when you see her at regional or AASE events!
Her faculty profile can be found here: Louisa Heiny. Below is a short introduction that she shared so all of you can get to know her:
I am an Associate Professor/ Lecturer at the University of Utah Law School. I teach Evidence, Judicial Process, and Legal Writing for Judicial Clerks. I've been teaching at Utah as an adjunct for since 2010, and before that was a Professor of Legal Writing at the University of Colorado Law School. I was hired full time in January to teach, develop ASP programs for upper-division and transfer students, and integrate those new programs into our existing 1L ASP and Bar prep programs.
February 4, 2016 in Academic Support Spotlight | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Welcome Nicole Lefton to ASP/Bar Prep
Please welcome Nicole Lefton who joined the Hofstra ASP/Bar Prep community in mid-January 2016. Please make a point of introducing yourselves to her at the next regional conference or AASE! Nicole shared the following information with us so you can get acquainted with her:
Nicole Lefton joins Hofstra as the Director of Academic Support and Bar Exam Preparation and a visiting professor. Prior to Hofstra, Nicole was the Senior Director of Academics at Kaplan Bar Review, where she worked for close to eight years. In addition, she taught Legal Writing and Lawyering Skills for several years to both JDs and International LL.M.s at Cardozo School of Law. Nicole graduated from Vassar College, and she received her JD from Cornell Law School. After graduating from Cornell, she joined the law firm of Rosenman & Colin as a real estate associate. She then joined Brownstone Publishers, a national, legal newsletter publisher, where she began as an editor and eventually became editor-in-chief. Nicole is admitted to the New York State Bar. She resides in New York City with her husband and two sons.
February 3, 2016 in Academic Support Spotlight | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, January 29, 2016
Are You New to ASP/Bar Prep Work?
If you have joined the law school ASP/Bar Prep profession since May 2015 and would like to be introduced here on the Blog for the first time, please send an email to Amy Jarmon (Texas Tech) at email@example.com with the following information:
- Your name (and nickname if you don't use your given name)
- Your title and law school
- When you began your position
- A brief paragraph with background information (degrees, work experience, interest areas).
- A link to your faculty profile on your law school's website (if you have a profile).
- A SMALL jpeg photo (if your faculty profile does not include one).
Introduction postings will be included on the Blog over the next few weeks. Welcome! We hope to see you at upcoming workshops and AASE conference. (Amy Jarmon)
January 29, 2016 in Academic Support Spotlight | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Guest Blogger: Outsourcing Academic Support Is a Problematic Proposition
Our guest post today is by Louis N. Schulze, Jr., Assistant Dean and Professor of Academic Support at Florida International University College of Law. He served on the faculty of Suffolk University Law School (2004-07) and New England Law | Boston (2007-14), earning tenure at the latter in 2012. He is a former Chair of the AALS Section on Academic Support.
Outsourcing Academic Support is a Problematic Proposition
I have been intrigued recently by the discussion occurring on the Academic Support listserv. One member of our community posted a request for information about whether, and to what extent, schools partner with and/ or outsource bar preparation and academic support to bar prep companies. Some schools have dabbled with partnering, and other schools report full-scale immersion. What I took from all of these reports (and my own discussions) was that bar prep companies seek not only to have a hand in for-credit bar prep courses but also in the area of traditional academic support. This troubles me.
I write to express my belief that the wholesale outsourcing of academic support to bar prep companies, though perhaps an attractive proposition for some deans, is a questionable one when viewed through the lens of assessing what is best for our students, our institutions, and the legal profession.
I. Some Preliminary Matters.
First, I think a dichotomy exists between bar prep companies' role in curricular bar preparation during law school and bar prep companies' role in academic support during law school. Unsurprisingly, bar prep companies are quite good at bar prep. For reasons explained infra, I believe that bar prep companies are less able to meet the unique goals of academic support.
Part of my thesis relies on this distinction; while I am somewhat more optimistic about partnering with bar prep companies for curricular bar preparation during law school, I am far less sanguine about the increased presence of bar preparation companies in the area of academic support. I think this dichotomy is a crucial one for deans and academic support professionals to digest, as there is a material difference between these two realms.
Second, I think a distinction exists between "partnering" with a bar prep company and the "wholesale outsourcing" of courses or programs. Unlike the bar prep/ academic support dichotomy I posit above, I see this distinction more as a spectrum than a binary choice. The lightest form of "partnering" would likely be adopting a bar prep company's materials and questions in a course, while the opposite end of the spectrum (the "wholesale outsourcing") would entail having a bar prep company fully teach and administer some facet of a law school's offerings.
In my view, as a law school's choices increase from "partnering" towards "wholesale outsourcing," those choices become more questionable. While there are no doubt many acceptable points along the spectrum, law schools ought to think carefully about crossing the threshold between partnering and outsourcing, especially in the area of academic support.
II. My Arguments.
My thesis is that law schools should not outsource academic support, per se, to bar prep companies. I am less concerned about partnering/ outsourcing law school bar prep courses. I am even only mildly concerned about partnering with bar companies in the area of academic support. But what I fear is that bar prep companies, in the name of diversifying product lines and increasing profits, will seek to dominate not only the bar prep market and the law school bar prep course market, but also the field of academic support. In my view, such a result would do more harm than good to our students.
But why is this so?
1. First, one-on-one academic support is the most effective academic support, but it is not the most cost-efficient. Anyone who teaches law school academic support has had the experience of watching a student's eyes light up as they have the big "ah ha!" moment. Some call this "the law school click." It occurs when a student suddenly makes multiple connections, all at once, and realizes exactly what her professors are getting at – why we use cases to teach law; why creating outlines is important; why we test the way we do; why one must "argue both sides"; why all these methods make students better lawyers.
Usually, this moment occurs in an office with both student and ASP professor huddled over a desk, reviewing an exam, a paper, or some other work product. This moment is usually preceded by other less fruitful in-person moments, but the point is that the "ah ha" moment is one that happens over time and in a one-on-one setting. While it's true that our ASP classes facilitate these moments, and give the framework and coursework for the moments of enlightenment, I've found that the "ah ha" moments happen in-person.
This is much less likely to happen if academic support is provided by bar prep companies. Why? Bar prep companies are corporations, and as such they owe fiduciary duties to their investors. They do not owe fiduciary duties to the students they are teaching. As a result, if they can cut costs by reducing costly endeavors they can and must do so. The first item on the chopping-block would be the costly method of one-on-one, individualized meetings.
2. Academic support is not one size fits all, but one size fits all is cost-efficient. Each law school's academic support methods differ significantly from the methods of others. This has a lot to do with the differences in administrations, faculties, students, and missions of each law school. Applying the methods of one school to that of another would be ineffective because academic support must be tailored to the environment of the law school. An approach to the contrary waters down the effectiveness of the program, plain and simple.
But, one size fits all is cost-efficient. If a corporation could fashion an academic support program that could be installed as-is into multiple law schools, such a program would increase the profit margin of the endeavor. By contrast, tailoring an academic support program to the unique needs of individual schools (let alone students) would be cost-inefficient. Changing aspects of the curriculum to account for differences in faculties, students, and other stakeholders would require person-hours, and person-hours come with a price tag. As a result, because bar prep companies are corporations, and corporations have a fiduciary duty to the bottom line, academic support would likely become one size fits all.
3. There are many purposes for academic support, but bar passage is the ultimate purpose of any bar prep company. Law schools provide academic support for myriad reasons: to decrease dismissal rates; to support students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds; to humanize the law school environment; to communicate performance expectations more expressly; to increase bar passage rates; and to make students better lawyers. Each institution may emphasize these purposes differently, but at the very least each of these is likely on the table in terms of justifying expenditures for academic support.
But, the purpose of a bar prep company is solely to promote bar passage. While this purpose might coincide with some of the other purposes, it likely subordinates them to a "lesser" status. Moreover, setting bar passage as the sole or primary purpose of academic support could actually be antithetical to the other goals. For instance, one could argue that to increase bar passage rates, a law school should actually increase its dismissal rates. That way, only the strongest students "count" in terms of bar passage rate. An academic support program focused solely on bar passage, therefore, might spend little time on saving 1Ls and all of its time on those who managed to get through. Although this approach might increase a school's bar passage rate, it would utterly fly in the face of schools' duties to the students they admit.
4. Successful academic support relies heavily on an ASP faculty's engagement with other faculty. If academic support is outsourced to bar prep companies, whose employees would not be embedded in the institution full-time (under the proposal with which I am familiar), the academic support program would lack the crucial element of connection to the institution's faculty.
This point relates to "buy-in," and a successful academic support program must have it from both faculty and students. Students buy in to an academic support program if they know that there is a regular and positive collaboration between their doctrinal faculty (who will grade their work) and their academic support faculty. Meanwhile, doctrinal faculty buy in to an academic support program when they know, among other things, that the academic support faculty will help students with more than just passing the bar and that the academic support faculty will not re-teach the doctrine or teach in a way that conflicts with their course. Because a cost-efficient bar prep company academic support provider must pop around between multiple law schools, neither students nor faculty can be assured that the support program will embody the type of multi-stakeholder synergy necessary for success.
5. Another crucial element of successful academic support is knowledge of one's students' strengths and weaknesses and providing counseling that helps enhance the former and mitigate the latter. This happens over time and requires a great deal of relationship building. The level of trust required to develop these relationships seems unlikely to exist if the academic support provider is not imbedded within the institution.
This point relates to the murky intersection of academic support and counseling. While ASP faculty are (mostly) not trained psychological counselors, a great deal of our most effective work occurs on the personal level. An outsourced academic support program might be able to determine that a student is weak on essays, but a true academic support professional will know WHY the student developed this weakness and how to help work the student toward mastering the problem – both on the academic and personal level. An outsourced academic support program simply will not have time to work on this holistic (but critical) endeavor. In short, an outsourced program teaches students; a true academic support program teaches people.
6. Subtle conflicts of interest. ASP faculty are often called upon to be unofficial advocates for the student body. Because we know our constituency so well, we provide robust input in institutional conversations that could impact students. Because we have certain employment protections (and this is just one reason why ASP professionals should be eligible to earn tenure and long-term contracts), we can advocate for students in ways that outside contractors cannot. Because bar prep companies will likely have their own pecuniary interests in mind, they likely will not advocate for students in the same way as ASP faculty.
For instance, many ASP professionals serve on their law school's Academic Review Committee or provide data to those committees when they decide whether to readmit dismissed students. Student petitions for readmission often paint the rosiest picture for the students' readmission, while grades and LSAT scores provide only a limited picture of a student's potential. ASP professionals who have worked closely with the dismissed students can provide information that paints a clearer and more objective picture of whether a school should take a chance on readmitting dismissed students.
Outsourced academic support programs cannot possibly provide that level of objectivity and nuance. First, it is doubtful that an Academic Review Committee would permit an outside contractor ever to serve on such a committee. But even if the committee accepted data and observations from such a source, how could the committee ever trust that the information is objective when the outside contractor has a vested interest in ensuring that no "borderline" student ever sits for the bar and possibly harm the school's bar passage rate? Why would an outside contractor ever take such a chance when their future contractual relations rely on bar passage? As a result, law schools lose an opportunity for clearer information about their students when they outsource academic support.
III. Conclusion.
Law schools should not outsource academic support to commercial bar prep companies, a proposal that at least one company is marketing. At many schools, in-house academic support programs provide a genuine and effective source for student support. Partnering with such companies in the area of academic support and even outsourcing curricular bar prep courses might be reasonable, but the wholesale abrogation of a law school's fiduciary duty to prepare its students for success is deeply problematic. Should law schools follow this slippery slope, they slide one step closer to outsourcing clinical, legal writing, and even doctrinal teaching.
December 16, 2015 in Academic Support Spotlight, Bar Exam Preparation, Guest Column, Miscellany | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, December 7, 2015
Congratulations to Katherine Kelly
We want to congratulate our Contributing Editor, Katherine S. Kelly, on her promotion. Katherine is at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law. She has been promoted to Clinical Associate Professor of Law. Katherine is also the Director of Academic Support at Moritz. Her profile is here: Katherine S. Kelly.
December 7, 2015 in Academic Support Spotlight | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Another Texas Bar Today Top 10 Award
The Law School Academic Support Blog has been awarded the Texas Bar Today Top 10 badge for Amy Jarmon's Friday, October 30th post on Quick Tips from Law Students. Thank you to the State Bar of Texas for this additional recognition.
November 11, 2015 in Academic Support Spotlight | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Texas Bar Today Top 10 Award
The Law School Academic Support Blog has been awarded the Texas Bar Today Top 10 badge for Amy Jarmon's Wednesday, October 21st post on Multiple-Choice Exam Strategies. Thank you to the State Bar of Texas for this recognition.
November 3, 2015 in Academic Support Spotlight | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, September 14, 2015
Texas Bar Today Top 10 Award
The Law School Academic Support Blog has been awarded the Texas Bar Today Top 10 badge for Amy Jarmon's September 9th post Becoming an Expert on Your Professors' Courses. Thank you to the State Bar of Texas for this recognition.
September 14, 2015 in Academic Support Spotlight | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, July 3, 2015
Jr. Faculty Scholarship Exchange--ASPers are welcome!
UMass Law School will be hosting our 3rd Jr. Faculty Scholarship Exchange this fall. I strongly recommend ASPer's who have a work-in-progress to attend. I participated last year, and the experience was invaluable. Feedback from colleagues sparked an "AHA! That's it!" moment for me. It's a fantastic event, during a gorgeous time of year in Boston. I hope to see you there. (RCF)
As the weather finally begins to look like summer here along the coast, the University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth School of Law wishes to invite you to our Third Annual Junior Faculty Scholarship Exchange. This is an opportunity for junior law school faculty to gather together to discuss works in progress, finished papers, research interests, and to network and collaborate with peers from other institutions. Our hope is to provide a forum for legal scholars to develop their ideas and scholarship with input and constructive criticism from fellow law teachers. This past year we hosted 23 attendees from a dozen different law schools, from as far as Texas. This event is especially aimed at faculty with seven, or fewer, years of law teaching experience.
We are hosting this conference at the UMass Club, located in the heart of Boston's financial district, on the 33rd floor of 225 Franklin Street. The venue is close to South Station, and the red and orange lines of the MBTA, several parking garages and local hotels. A hot buffet lunch, with morning and afternoon snack services will be provided. For directions, see: http://www.clubcorp.com/Clubs/University-of-Massachusetts-Club/About-the-Club/Directions-Hours.
Please consider joining us for this event by marking your calendar for Friday, October 16th, 2015, from 10 to 4. Seating will be limited. Registration for this event will open August 24th. Attendees will need to assume responsibility for their personal travel or lodging expenses.
Feel free to forward this invitation to a junior faculty member that you believe may be interested. If this is information that you would prefer not to receive, please let us know and we will take you off of our list. If you have any immediate questions or concerns please call us at (508)985-1121, and ask to speak with Emma, Jessica, or me. Thank you.
Spencer E. Clough
Associate Dean/Director of the Law Library
July 3, 2015 in Academic Support Spotlight | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Welcome to ASP!
Please welcome Cyrah Khan as Associate Director of Academic Support at Seattle University School of Law where she assumed ASP duties this winter. She grew up in New York and became interested in education during high school when she started tutoring at-risk kids in NYC public schools. After moving to Seattle to pursue a Criminal Justice degree at Seattle University, she attended Seattle University School of Law and started doing work in education equity and access to education. She has worked for the US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights and the ACLU Education Equity Program. Most recently, she clerked at Division Two of the Washington Court of Appeals. While clerking she earned her Master's Degree in Education with a focus on differentiated instruction and program assessment.
Please welcome Cyrah to ASP!
June 24, 2015 in Academic Support Spotlight, Miscellany | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, May 11, 2015
Congratulations to Katherine Kelly
We are happy to announce that Katherine Kelly, one of our Contributing Editors, has been awarded a badge for a "Top 10 Blog Posts" for her posting last week entitled: Tackling a Take Home Exam. The State Bar of Texas included her on their Texas Bar Today website list of last week's top ten list. You can find their web posting here: Texas Bar Today Top 10 . The PDF badge below is to honor her accomplishment:
May 11, 2015 in Academic Support Spotlight | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, March 6, 2015
NY Regional ASP Conference: Friday April 17
We are pleased to announce this year's full-day NY Academic Support Workshop, to be held from 9:30 to 5:30 at New York Law School on Friday, April 17. As usual, this will be a small and rather-intimate gathering of academic support professionals and colleagues actively working to learn from one another.
As is our usual practice, the afternoon sessions of the workshop will have an open agenda and room to include any subject of interest to those in attendance, while the morning sessions will be centered on a specific topic. For this year's morning session we would like to concentrate on working with law students who have recently been placed on academic supervision or probation. How do we best help these students? What unique problems do they face? What sorts of pedagogies help them become motivated and effective learners? Any and all insights, discussions, ideas or presentations will be welcome.
One thing that makes all ASP gatherings exciting has always been our unique emphasis on interaction – ASP folks DO things together so that we can learn together. NY Workshop participants work with one another to develop or enhance our individual lessons, materials, presentations, or any other part of our professional endeavors. No one who comes is allowed to be a back-bencher. If you would like to attend, please let us know whether you want to share one of your own issues, ideas, etc., comment on ones brought by other participants, or both. And please let us know whether you think your topic/question/issue/material/presentation lends itself to our morning's theme or to the more open-ended part of our agenda. When we confirm who will attend and what specific questions the participants plan to address, we will send out a finalized workshop agenda.
RSVP to Kris at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Since this is not a formal conference there is no fee to attend. We hope to see many of you soon!
March 6, 2015 in Academic Support Spotlight, Current Affairs, Meetings, Miscellany, News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Group Work? More on Sexism and ASP
ASP conferences and presentations frequently extol the virtues of group work. Books and articles suggest that group work would enhance legal education, make students better prepared for law practice, and make law school less isolating. Business schools rely on group projects. Despite the evidence, law schools hew to the familiar, and few 1L courses include group work, although some upper-division seminar and clinical courses include group exercises. For women, there may be some benefit to this arrangement.
Women are subject to the "secretary effect," where they are the secretary, the recorder, or the stenographer in group projects. The spit-balling, the creative thinking, and the leadership roles are taken by the men of the group. Women are expected to play supporting roles, while men take the lead, when they work in groups. This arrangement extends into adulthood.
I never liked group work, which is one of the reasons I enjoyed law school. In group projects, I felt like my contributions were never valued, I did more work than other members of the group, and I was stuck in ill-fitting roles where I could not demonstrate my competance. On the rare occasion I had to work in a group during law school, I sought out all-female groups, where I knew I would feel more comfortable.
Professionally, I see the same pattern. ASP is dominated by women, who rarely rise to leadership roles outside of our small community. ASP is designed to support students, but is frequently expected to support the (predominately) male tenured and tenure-track faculty. ASP, as a field, keeps the students in school, helps them achieve career success through bar support, yet rarely receives the credit for helping law schools meet accreditation standards. In ASP, we are still the unsung secretaries, the essential member of the group who is undervalued and overlooked.
Group Projects and the Secretary Effect
January 17, 2015 in Academic Support Spotlight, Current Affairs, Miscellany | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)


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TN NAFTA: Canadians and Mexicans
TN NAFTA is temporary work status for qualifying Canadian and Mexican nationals under the North American Free Trade Agreement. TN NAFTA status is issued for up to 3 years, renewable indefinitely. Unlike the H1B Visa, there is no annual quota on the number of individuals who can receive TN NAFTA status in any given year.
To qualify for TN NAFTA status, an individual must be engaged at a professional level in one of the occupations or professions on the TN occupation list. Spouses and unmarried children under 21 may accompany the principal TN holder in TD (Trade Dependent) status. However, TD's do not have authorization to work while in the US.
The TN NAFTA classification does not allow for "dual intent," that is, there is no provision in US immigration law or related regulations that allows a TN holder to apply for a Green Card (US permanent residence) while holding TN status. In fact, due to the complexities of dual intent, if a TN holder is considering such a move, it is wise to seek counsel on whether it may be best to change to another temporary visa status such as the H1B Visa (which does allow for dual intent), and if so, when might be the appropriate time to do so.
Documentation and processing for the TN NAFTA are different for Canadian and Mexican nationals.
TN NAFTA Self-Employment, Entrepreneurship
The TN NAFTA category does not offer an opportunity for entrepreneurs to set up a business entity that, in turn, sponsors them for TN NAFTA classification. In fact, the regulations specifically disallow self-employment of TN holders. More specifically, TN NAFTA holders may not be sole owners of, or hold a controlling interest in, their sponsoring entities.
Mexican TN NAFTA Processing
On March 10, 2004, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) removed the annual numerical cap on the number of Mexican professionals that may be admitted to the US annually under NAFTA. The rule also eliminated the past requirement for a Mexican-based TN NAFTA professional to file a petition and corresponding labor condition application.
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The TN NAFTA petition and LCA requirement for Mexican TN NAFTA applicants have now been eliminated. Rather, a Mexican citizen who wants to come to the US in TN status must apply directly to the US Department of State for a TN NAFTA visa. DOS will then adjudicate the TN NAFTA applicant's eligibility for a TN visa, and upon approval and issuance of a TN visa, the applicant may then apply for admission to the US at a US Class A port-of-entry, at a US airport that handles international traffic, or at a US pre-clearance/ pre-flight station.
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What you don't have is the "right" to publicly offend when there is no reason on earth why such offense should be given.
I have no idea what you are talking about, as (so far as I know) I did not say anything offensive (although I did mis-type "pluralism" a couple of times!).