A native Floridian, Danny Musaab Kiswani balances a busy career as a law student with a commitment to the local community. Danny Kiswani is a student at the Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Law, and he expects to complete his JD in 2019.
The FAMU College of Law has made a significant impact since it first opened in 2002. Among other notable achievements, the school stands out for training more African American attorneys in the past five years than all other Florida law schools combined. Dedicated to the success of its students, the institution offers numerous resources that improve learning outcomes and make better lawyers.
One of these initiatives is Project PASS (Performance Assessment and Strategic Support), an innovative program that helps FAMU law students identify and improve their weakest academic areas. For example, as part of Project PASS, first-year students took part in a two-week “boot camp” that taught fundamental skills necessary to succeed as law students while offering assessments of participants’ current skill levels.
Other elements of Project PASS include a partnership with BARBRI Bar Review, a legal education organization, through which students have an opportunity to take assessment exams and receive reports analyzing academic areas in which they can improve. Students then have access to specialized tools that can help them work on those areas.
