Azin Abedian
Assistant Professor, Academic and Bar Exam Success Program
In the past twenty years, law school academic support programs (ASP) have transformed from relatively new phenomena to a standard department in law schools across the country. Traditionally, these departments existed to assist students who faced cultural or economic disadvantages, academic difficulty, and those needing accommodations. In recent years, with respect to the wave of technology, ASP departments face an entirely new set of students, with a new set of challenges. Recent students have spent their developmental years immersed in technology, resulting in new thinking patterns and different ways of processing information. As a result, traditional teaching methods are no longer as effective as they once were.