JOHN GARLAND NAMED ACTING DIRECTOR 
OF U.VA.ÕS COOPER CENTER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE,
 AS CARL STENBERG TAKES UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE DEANSHIP

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Sept. 9 -- Carl W. Stenberg, director
of the University of VirginiaÕs Weldon Cooper Center for Public
Service since 1989, has been named dean of the University of
BaltimoreÕs Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts, effective this
month.
	John W. Garland, executive assistant to U.Va. President John
T. Casteen III , will serve as acting director of the Cooper Center,
Vice President and Provost Peter W. Low announced.
	During StenbergÕs tenure at the center, it has significantly
expanded its range of services to state and local governments.  A
key element has been the establishment of a statewide Institute of
Government , funded by the General Assembly and based at the
centerÕs Richmond office, to offer technical and other special
training assistance to governments.   
	Stenberg was executive director of the Council of State
Governments before joining the U.Va. faculty and has served as
president of the American Society for Public Administration.  At the
University of Baltimore he will oversee an undergraduate and
graduate liberal arts program that has a professional-education
orientation in several fields, with 1,600 students and 57 full-time
faculty.  ÒWe are very grateful to Carl for his distinguished
service to the Cooper Center and the University and wish him well in
his new position,Ó Low said.
	Garland, who earned his J.D. degree at Ohio State
University, joined the University in 1991 as associate general
counsel and special assistant attorney general.  He became executive
assistant to President Casteen in 1993 and for the past year has
served as interim director of the UniversityÕs Equal Opportunity
Programs Office.  He previously served as general counsel for the
University of the District of Columbia.
	A search committee to fill the public service center
directorÕs position will be named once a decision has been made on
whether to consolidate the directorships of the Institute of
Government with the Cooper Center, Low said.  A search committee
appointed to fill the position of director of the Institute of
Government has recommended the posts be consolidated.
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September 8, 1995