Posted on behalf of Professor Roy Mersky.
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I am pleased to let you know that one of our Tarlton alumni, Donald J.
Dunn, has been appointed Dean of the University of La Verne College of
Law. On Thursday, January 30, 2003, President Steve Morgan of the
University of La Verne in La Verne, California, issued the following press
release, and I am delighted to share it with you. After the press release,
I've noted information about La Verne that Don gave me.
Roy
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> From President Steve Morgan of the University of La Verne:
>>
>>"I am pleased to announce Donald J. Dunn has been appointed Dean of the
>>College of Law. He currently serves as Associate Dean for Library and
>>Information Resources and Professor of Law at Western New England College
>>School of Law in Springfield, Massachusetts. He served as dean for five
>>years at Western New England College of Law and has significant
>>experience consulting with law schools applying for American Bar
>>Association approval. He has served as a member of more than 40 ABA site
>>evaluation teams.
>>
>>In an interview with the press, Dick McDowell said, "Don's experience as
>>a law school administrator and background as a consultant and ABA site
>>team evaluator make him highly qualified to lead the College of Law as we
>>prepare for the rigorous ABA approval review process later this year. His
>>insight as a recent member of the Law School Admissions Council also
>>gives us an edge in the highly competitive law school admissions environment."
>>
>>Don has held positions at the University of Texas at Austin and Tarlton
>>Law Library. He has served on many legal advisory committees and is the
>>author of numerous publications, including co-authoring in 2002
>>Fundamentals of Legal Research, 8th edition, the leading text in the field.
>>
>>Don graduated from Western New England College School of Law and earned
>>his Juris Doctorate in 1983. He received his Master of Library Science in
>>1972 and Bachelor of Arts in 1969 from the University of Texas at Austin.
>>
>>Don plans several trips to campus and numerous phone conferences and
>>email exchanges with College of Law and University personnel prior to
>>assuming official duties on June 1, 2003. We will plan a welcome
>>reception for him after his arrival."
>>
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>>Don shared with me the following information about the University of La
>>Verne and its College of Law. I thought you might find it of interest. Roy
>>
>>
>>The University of La Verne was founded in 1891 as Lordsburg College by
>>members of the Church of the Brethren who moved west from the Midwest to
>>settle a new land. Both the College and the agricultural community were
>>renamed La Verne in 1917, and the 1920s and 1930s found three-quarters of
>>the student body in teacher education. The next three decades saw campus
>>facilities multiply fourfold, the Board of Trustees become independent of
>>church control, and the student body increase and become more
>>cosmopolitan without the College losing its commitment to service or its
>>dedication to sound, people-centered, values-oriented education. In 1955
>>the College was accredited by the Western College Association. A decade
>>later it awarded its first master's degree, and in 1979 it conferred its
>>first doctorate.
>>
>>The main campus of the University of La Verne is approximately 35 miles
>>east of downtown Los Angeles in La Verne (pop. 35,000). La Verne is
>>located near the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in a large
>>geographic area known as the Inland Empire. The Inland Empire consists of
>>several counties with a combined population of over three million and no
>>law school other than the Univ. of La Verne's College of Law. The
>>University of La Verne is a comprehensive university offering bachelor's,
>>master's, and doctoral degrees to over 7,000 students, 2,600 of whom are
>>undergraduates. It consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, the
>>School of Business and Global Studies, the School of Education and
>>Organizational Leadership, the College of Law, the School of Public
>>Affairs and Health Administration, and the School of Continuing
>>Education. The University has eleven satellite campuses that serve
>>students across southern California, as well as in Athens, Greece and two
>>sites in Alaska.
>>
>>The College of Law, which was founded in 1969, is in Ontario, California,
>>about 10 miles from La Verne and very near Claremont and Pomona. The
>>College of Law is accredited by the Committee of Bar Examiners for the
>>State of California. The law school currently enrolls about 180 students
>>with a planned cap of around 400. It has 15 full-time faculty members and
>>a library that already exceeds 200,000 volumes. Its new facility is
>>beautiful and state-of-the-art.
>>
>>
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