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5 Legal Educ. Newsl 1 (1973-1974)

handle is hein.journals/syllabus5 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume V, Number 1, December, 1973 Published by the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar American Bar Association Message from the Chairman Section Highlights For 1973-74 are: New Consultant. Professor James P. White, Indiana University Indianapolis Law School, has been selected to succeed Professor Millard H. Ruud as ABA Consultant on Legal Education. The Section as Accreditor. Our most important business has been and continues to be the accreditation of law schools, in- cluding the gathering and dissemination of information on legal education. Because of the large number of new law schools and our effort to get current on reinspections, this year's accreditation agenda may be the longest ever. Meetings of the Accreditation Committee will be extended to three days. The Council's agenda, at least in Houston, will be largely taken up by consideration of requests for provisional approval. Continuing to develop our accreditation program, a workshop was held in Washington, D.C. with members of ABA/AALS inspection teams. Similar meetings are planned in connection with the AALS meetinq this December in New Orleans, and at the annual meeting ift Honolulu. The Section has been rerecognized as a national accrediting agency by H.E.W. and the National Commission on Accrediting. Recognition criteria include the requirement, which we are now implementing, that all visits be preceded by a self-study conducted by the school being visited. The Section as a Forum. ABA President Chesterfield Smith has challenged our Section to become a much larger and more active forum for discussion, research, and action pertaining to legal education.