Academic Resource Scholars - Sh&B Fall 2024

Job Description

• General Responsibilities

• Scholars will be assigned a group of roughly five students. Scholars will not specifically be tutoring students but will instead be helping them find answers to their questions and modeling successful law student study skills.

• Attend Class

• Scholars must attend all four hours of one of the following classes:

• Civil Procedure (Professor Hines), which meets WRF 10:20 - 11:15am; and F 11:25am

• 12:20pm

• Contracts (Professor Drahozal), which meets MTW 11:25am

• 12:20pm and M 9:15 -10:10am

• Contracts (Professor Ware), which meets TWRF 9:15am

• 10:10am OR

• Torts (Professor Velte), which meets TWR 9:15

• 10:10am and W 8:10 - 9:05

• Lead Weekly Study Group

• Scholars will organize and lead an hour-long weekly study group for group participants using material covered in the doctrinal course they are attending.

• Attend Training

• Scholars will meet at the beginning of the fall semester and periodically throughout the semester with Professor Six for training, guidance, and instruction.

Required Qualifications

• Any KU Law student who is in good standing and will be enrolled as a third-year law student during the fall 2024 semester is eligible to apply. Scholars will be selected, in part, on students' demonstrated success in law school generally and in the particular course. Three students will be selected for the fall 2024 semester. Students selected for the fall semester will have the option to continue as Scholars in the Spring 2025 semester.

• During the semester term of the appointment, the student hourly must be enrolled in no fewer than 6 credit hours. For summer periods the student hourly must: 1) have been enrolled in no less than 6 hours in the past spring semester or 2) be pre-enrolled in upcoming fall semester in no less than 6 hours or 3) be enrolled in summer session or 4) be admitted to study in the upcoming fall semester. Student Hourlies may be undergraduate or graduate students. (Exceptions granted for GRA/GTA/GA appointments DO NOT apply to Student Hourly appointments).

Preferred Qualifications

N/A