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ACADEMICS

• Academic Calendar
• Degree Requirements
• Courses
• Enrolling in Courses
• Academic Rules (PDF)
• Honor Code (PDF)
• Grading Policy
• Clinics

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STUDENT SERVICES

• Student Services Office
• Information Technology
• Financial Aid
• Registrar
• Career Development
• Disabled Student Services
• Housing
• Student Health Center
• Child Care

STUDENT LIFE

• On Campus
• Beyond Campus
• Calendar of Events

Overview of Student Services

The Dean of Students and her staff are available to all law students on a walk-in basis as well as through prior appointments. In general, we provide academic and non-academic counseling to individual students and work with student groups and organizations on a variety of matters.

Working with our staff are the Registrar and the Director of Financial Aid, both of whom are committed to helping our current students navigate the sometimes complex paths involved in enrolling in classes, applying for financial aid, qualifying for housing, and ultimately becoming certified to sit for a Bar Examination.

More specifically, the Student Services Office staff will, among other things:

• Connect students with other administrators
• Connect students with faculty at the law school and throughout the campus
• Refer students to campus-wide resources
• Work with students individually and in groups on issues of stress reduction, academic performance, adjustment to law school, and other personal matters
• Function as the administrative liaison to the law school student government body and other student organizations
• Help student groups plan and implement their activities and develop funding plans
• Plan and coordinate Admitted Students Day, 1L Orientation, and Commencement, as well as other student-focused programs
• Interpret and implement the law school’s Academic Rules

The law school’s Director of Student Services is responsible for working with law students requiring any type of accommodations because of a permanent or temporary disability or other condition.

Working closely with the campus Disability Services Center, the Director will help students determine how best to apply for the accommodations that have been worked out with that Office.

In addition, the Director of Student Services will help law students with the documentation that will be needed if they plan to request accommodations for a Bar Examination.

If you know you will be requiring some sort of accommodation at the law school, please be sure to start the process by getting more information from and registering with the campus Disability Services Center.

We expect that each year a number of our students will be parents of young children, and the Student Services Office is committed to making the experience of law-student parents as positive as possible.

For law students who are mothers of infants, we will have an on-site nursing station and will work with all students who have parental obligations to create, wherever possible, class schedules that make it easier to balance school and family.

Below are links to resources that might be useful to law students with young or school-age children:

Local child care

K-12 Public Schools

Private Schools

Inaugural Class member Christina Zabat-Fran confers with other students.