Kathleen Bolus
Director of Academic Achievement
Biography
Kathleen (“Kate”) Bolus has spent more than a decade in legal education, with a primary focus on academic success and bar preparation. She has worked at law schools throughout Southern California, developing curriculum for and teaching classes aimed at fostering students’ success in law school, on the bar examination, and in practice.
Prior to transitioning to legal education, Professor Bolus practiced labor and employment law at Jones Day and managed a portfolio of local, state, and federal government grants and contracts at the Community Resource Center, a non-profit social services agency. Before law school, Professor Bolus devoted a year to full time service through the AMERICORPS VISTA program.
Professor Bolus is a graduate of UCLA School of Law, where she served a Managing Editor of the Woman’s Law Journal. She is a member of the Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE) and the West Coast Consortium of Academic Support Professionals (WCCASP) and has a particular interest in developing curriculum that incorporates spaced learning and effective peer and self-assessment practices.
- J.D., UCLA School of Law
- B.A., University of California, San Diego [Magna Cum Laude]
- Foundations of Law
- Advanced Legal Analysis.
- Clarifying “Conclusory”: Using Scaffolding to Teach Students to Identify and Remedy Problems in Analysis, Association for Academic Support Educators Annual Conference, University of Idaho College of Law, Boise, Boise, Idaho, May 2024
- Rallying and Recapturing Bar Exam Repeaters, Association for Academic Support Educators Annual Conference, Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, California, May 2023 (with Tania Shah)
- Purgatory, The Lost Middle Child, and Law School…Oh My, Association for Academic Support Educators Annual Conference, St. Mary’s University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas, May 2022 (with Tania Shah)
- Show Them the Evidence: Using Data to Encourage Student Engagement, Association for Academic Support Educators Annual Conference, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington, May 2019 (with Kevin Sherill)
- Using Workshops to Make It Stick: How 1L Skills Workshops Can Reinforce Retrieval Practice, Spaced Learning, and Interleaving, West Coast Consortium of Academic Support Professional Annual Conference, University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, California, November 2018
- Partnering with Student Organizations to Improve Retention and Academic Performance of Diverse Student Populations: Our Experience in Helping Establish Lunge with La Raza, Association for Academic Support Educators Annual Conference, Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, Texas, May 2017 (with Karen Harkins, Augustin Razo, and Olavo Michel)
- Using the 1L Project and Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Approach to Improve 1L Skills Using Bar Tested Content, Association for Academic Support Educators Annual Conference, CUNY School of Law, New York, New York, May 2016 (with Karen Harkins and Michael Flynn)