STALLARD NAMED DEAN OF CONTINUING EDUCATION

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 16 -- Sondra Stallard, interim
dean of the University of Virginia's Division of Continuing
Education since October, will become dean effective immediately,
President John T. Casteen III announced today.
	"Ms. Stallard has been an exceptional leader in dealing with
urgent financial and organizational issues facing the division,"
Casteen said.  "She is the right person to continue that work."
	A task force appointed last fall to review the mission and
structure of continuing education at the University will continue,
said vice president and provost Peter W. Low.  Chaired by education
dean David W. Breneman, the 22-member group expects to make
recommendations to the provost by mid-fall, as originally scheduled.
	As part of that process, Breneman noted, the task force has
scheduled meetings this spring with deans of continuing education at
Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities.  It is studying changing
enrollment patterns and markets for adult education, the increasing
role of technology in long-distance learning, and, through
consultation with students and faculty, assessing specific programs
and services.
	Since 1989-90, University enrollment data show a 26 percent
drop in registrations for credit courses taught at the division's
seven regional centers and at the FBI Academy in Quantico.
Non-credit programs have seen a similar decline.
	"Members of the task force have been enormously impressed
with Ms. Stallard's grasp of the issues, her advocacy of the
division's programs, and her clearly evident leadership skills,"
Breneman said.  "Her appointment to head continuing education
programs on an on-going basis, whether as dean or in some other role
yet to be defined, will assist us in our work."
	Stallard, who holds a Ph.D. in education from U.Va., has
served the University in a number of capacities since she was hired
by the Curry School of Education in 1975 to assist newly
desegregated public school systems with curriculum review and to
build community relations.
	She served as director of equal opportunity programs from
1981 to 1986, has 10 years' experience as a fund-raiser for the
engineering and graduate business schools, and was executive
assistant to President Casteen at the time she was appointed interim
dean.
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April 16, 1996
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