By Susannah Pollvogt| www.lsac.org
Prior to joining LSAC in 2021, Susannah was a law professor for 15 years, and served as the inaugural associate dean for student success at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, School of Law. She graduated from Williams College in 1994 and Yale Law School in 1998. Her experience includes designing and implementing summer bridge programs, substantive orientation programs, first-year academic skills workshops, upper-level legal analysis courses, doctrinal courses, skills courses, comprehen...| www.lsac.org
March 2024 Update: IAALS is collaborating with the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) on Foundations 2.0, a major update of IAALS’ original Foundations for Practice project. Foundations 2.0 aims to survey thousands of practicing lawyers in every field of law and every geographic and demographic sector, to identify the key skills needed in today’s legal profession. Foundations 2.0 will establish an evidence-based framework to unify educators, employers, and students around clear and consi...| iaals.du.edu
By Susannah PollvogtThis blog post provides a brief review of our well-attended webinar last week on Best Practices in Developing and Assessing Learning Outcomes.The Need for GuidanceThere has been a robust dialogue around learning outcomes in higher education for many years, but not so much in the realm of legal education. So, while newly adopted ABA Standards require law schools to develop learning outcomes at both the programmatic and individual course level, administrators and faculty mem...| Blog
By Susannah PollvogtMy recent Law:Fully post described changes to the ABA accreditation standards regarding learning outcomes and assessment of students’ attainment of those outcomes. This post unpacks the concept of learning outcomes a bit more and describes the relationship between course-level learning outcomes and programmatic learning outcomes.First, a workable definition of learning outcomes: learning outcomes describe what students should be able to do at the end of a course or a pr...| Blog
By Susannah PollvogtOn February 3, the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates voted to approve changes to ABA standards related to learning outcomes and assessment that will have significant implications for law school curricula. The purpose of this post is to explain the changes and how law schools might want to adapt in light of those changes. Future Law:Fully blog posts will further explain learning outcomes, the difference between programmatic learning outcomes and course-level...| Blog