CAROLYN CALLAHAN SUCCEEDS D. ALAN WILLIAMS
AS FACULTY ATHLETIC REPRESENTATIVE

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 25 -- Carolyn M. Callahan has been
named the University of Virginia faculty athletic representative,
effective May 31, President John T. Casteen III announced today.  Her
duties will include representing U.Va. at National Collegiate Athletic
Association and Atlantic Coast Conference meetings and serving as the
liaison between the faculty and the Department of Athletics.
	Callahan, a professor in the Curry School of Education,
director of the National Research Center on Gifted Education
Leadership Foundation and Policy and a member of the U.Va. faculty for
24 years, will serve a five-year term, reporting to Casteen through
University Vice President and Provost Peter W. Low and Executive Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer Leonard W. Sandridge. She has
chaired U.Va.Õs Athletic Advisory Committee for the past four years
and previously served on the Faculty SenateÕs athletics committee.
	She lists gender equity and academic integrity as priorities
in her new role.
	Callahan succeeds D. Alan Williams, the University of
VirginiaÕs faculty athletic representative since 1969.
	ÒWe are grateful for Alan WilliamsÕ many years of
distinguished service in this important capacity,Ó Casteen said.
ÒHis dedication to academic excellence and thorough understanding
of the issues have strengthened intercollegiate athletics throughout
the country.
	ÒI am confident that Carolyn Callahan will uphold
VirginiaÕs tradition of leadership within both the NCAA and the
Atlantic Coast Conference.Ó
	As chairman of the NCAA Committee on Infractions, Williams was
once described in a Miami Herald story as Òthe most powerful man on
the NCAAÕs most powerful committee.Ó During his nine-year tenure
(five as chairman), that committee imposed sanctions in high-profile
cases involving the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Southern Methodist
University and the University of Oklahoma.
	Four times voted ACC president, he aided in recruiting the
last two commissioners and expanding the conference to include the
Georgia Institute of Technology and Florida State University.
	Williams, an expert on Colonial Virginia and a member of the
faculty of U.Va.Õs Corcoran Department of History for 40 years, was
also dean of student affairs from 1968-70 and vice president for
student affairs from 1970-74.
	He supported successful efforts to enhance academic
eligibility standards for incoming student-athletes and to bring
womenÕs sports under the NCAA banner.
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March 24, 1997
	For more information, contact Carolyn Callahan at (804)
924-0791 or via e-mail at cmc@virginia.edu (she will be out of town
through March 28, but can be reached through her office), and D. Alan
Williams at (804) 924-6415 or via e-mail at daw5z@virginia.edu.
Television reporters should call our TV News Office at (804) 924-7550.