STATE LEGISLATORS FOCUS ON ETHICS AND LEADERSHIP
IN NATIONAL PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 28 -- State legislators from 41
states across the nation will gather here July 11-14 for a unique
political leadership program at the University of Virginia's Darden
Graduate School of Business Administration.
	Designed to expand the leadership skills and potential of
promising legislators in the early stages of their governing
careers, the Program for Emerging Political Leaders has signed up 49
men and women for this year's sessions according to Darden School
dean Leo Higdon.
	Legislators are nominated for the program by the bipartisan
leadership of both houses of their state legislatures; the final
selection of participants is made by a committee composed of
corporate sponsors, the Darden School faculty and alumni of previous
programs, Higdon noted.
	Political leaders and scholars such as Lowell Weicker Jr.,
former governor of Connecticut, and U.Va. professor Edward Freeman
are scheduled to head discussions on leadership issues. Freeman,
director of the school's Olsson Center for Applied Ethics and author
of "The Search for Ethics," is faculty leader of the program.
	Topics in the four-day program include values and ethics,
the global perspective, personal leadership in a changing world,
group dynamics and leadership, managing and leading and action steps
to make a difference.
	All costs of the program are paid by corporate sponsors, led
by a major grant from UST Inc., a Fortune 500 consumer products
company.  This support covers tuition, meals, lodging and travel to
and from Charlottesville.  Participants are housed at Sponsors Hall,
a Darden School residential complex, and eat most meals in the
Trustees Dining Room.
	In addition to a master of business education program, the
Darden School has offered executive education programs for senior
managers and executives since 1955.  It currently offers more than
85 programs, attended by more than 2,500 executives from the private
and public sectors each year.
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June 27, 1995