University of Virginia Library

CleoProgram Begun
For Minority Group

Students from minority groups
will attend a special program at the
University this summer aimed at
better preparing them to enter the
nation's law schools.

The program, sponsored by the
Council on Legal Education
Opportunity, is one of 10 across
the nation in which 30 law schools
will co-operate to prepare some 450
minority group students for law
school next fall.

The six-week intensive
orientation in legal problems will
help build analytical and verbal
skills needed in law school as well
as help students decide whether
they really are interested in law.

Faculty will include students
and professors from the
University's law school and from
Howard University's law school.
Co-directors of the institute will be
John N. Moore and Peter W. Low,
associate professors of law at the
University's law school.

CLEO will sponsor 10 regional
summer institutes, such as the one
at the University, as well as special
programs in Toledo and
Albuquerque this year.

Students' travel and living
expenses for the institute will be
paid, with stipends offered to offset
losses from earnings which could
have been gained from summer
jobs. Institutes will be held at the
beginning or end of the summer to
permit students to hold jobs for
part of the summer.

Enrollment in a particular
institute does not necessarily
indicate that the student will attend
law school there also. All
participants will be college
graduates, and some already will
have been accepted by a law school
for the coming year.

The CLEO Council, sponsored
by the American Bar Association,
also includes representatives of the
Association of American Law
Schools, the National Bar
Association, and the Law School
Admissions Test Council.

Funding for the summer
institutes program will be supplied
by sponsoring schools and the
Office of Economic Opportunity.

Students interested in attending
the University of Virginia institute
should write the Summer
Preparatory Institute (CLEO),
University of Virginia School of
Law, Charlottesville, Va., 22901,
Mr. Moore said.