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Graduation Highlights Unusual U.Va./FBI Partnership 
March 24, 2000 -- On Friday, March 24, 268 law enforcement officers will graduate from the 200th session of the FBI National Academy. They will have completed 11 weeks of leadership training that focuses on law, education, forensic science, behavioral science, management science, and health/fitness. At the graduation ceremony will be Attorney General Janet Reno, FBI Director Louis Freeh and Sondra Stallard, dean of the University of Virginia's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. What is U.Va.'s connection to the FBI National Academy? Since 1972, Academy students have been able to earn undergraduate and graduate credit from U.Va The long-term relationship has flourished under the leadership of U.Va. faculty members who oversee the academic disciplines at the Academy. They are: Janet Warren, associate professor, Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy; William Kehoe, O'Dell Professor of Commerce; John Sanderson, associate professor of education; Anne Coughlin, Class of 1941 Research Professor of Law; and Ralph Allen, professor and director of Environment, Health and Safety. In addition, Peter Low, Vice President and Provost at U.Va. served as liaison to the legal unit at the Academy, until November, 1999. For more information on the U.Va./FBI National Academy partnership, contact any of the following: Sondra Stollard, (804) 982-5206. Steve Pryplesh, Director, U.Va. programs, FBI Academy, Quantico, VA, (703) 632-1189. Janet Warren, (804) 924-8305. William Kehoe, (804) 924-7045. John Sanderson, (804) 924-0804. Anne Coughlin, (804) 924-3520. For more information on the March 24 ceremony, please contact Ida Lee Wootten at (804) 924-6857. |
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