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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED316101 AUTHOR: Tayler, Marilyn; Jackson, Curtis
TITLE: Educational Opportunity Fund Legal Studies Program.
YEAR PUBLISHED: (1989)
NOTE: 10 p.; This report is one of a group gathered by the
AASCU/ERIC Model Programs Inventory Project, funded by the
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education to the
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, in
collaboration with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher
Education. For related documents, see HE 023 199-261.
ABSTRACT: The Educational Opportunity Fund Legal Studies
program addresses the need to increase access to careers in
law for minority and disadvantaged students. Through early
identification of interest, recognition of problems,
remediation, skills enhancement, and comprehensive legal
career exploration and exposure, students in Montclair State
College's selective admissions program are prepared for law
careers. The program has increased the pool of law school
candidates from the target population, qualified on the
basis of academic achievement and motivation. It also
provides attractive career alternatives in the paralegal
field and bilingual court interpretation. The curriculum
uses a set of learning strategies to develop the needed
critical reasoning, logical thinking, analytic problem
solving, writing and communication skills, and exposure to
the legal professions early in the undergraduate education.
The four components of this process are an individualized
academic plan emphasizing the student's strengths, peer
support and supplemental instruction to remediate academic
weaknesses, computer-assisted instruction, and legal career
exploration. (MSE)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: College-Students; Computer-Assisted
Instruction; Higher-Education; Honors-Curriculum; Models-;
Program-Descriptions; Remedial-Instruction; State-Colleges;
Student-Recruitment; Undergraduate-Study
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *Career-Exploration;
*Legal-Education-Professions; *Minority-Groups; *Selective
Admission
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