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1964 Newsl. 1 (1964)

handle is hein.aals/aalsnews1964 and id is 1 raw text is: ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS Jp5At-L. S. Newsletter 1755 Massachusdtts Avenue, N. W. Washington, D. C. 20036 No. 64-1 - March 23, 1964 Visitation Program At this writing about half of the visits arranged as a result of the letters sent last October to the presidents and deans of mem- ber schools have been completed. Expressions of appreciation for the counsel and observations by the visitors have characterized the reactions in almost all instances. In a few cases there seems to have been some misunderstanding of the aim of the visitation pro- gram, so it may help to repeat here a few of the background state- ments that launched the program. The starting point is the statement in Section 5-9 of the Articles that the Executive.'Committee may request an advisor to visit a school whenever a school requests it, the visitation to be at AALS expense. Because of the availability of the Carnegie funds, President Gellhorn last October advised each president and dean of the Executive Committee's readiness to meet the expenses of a visit- to any school desiring it. In these letters President Gellhorn em- phasized that the object is to help, not to invade, so that the program contemplated sending visitors to schools only if requested to do so, As a result of the responses received, visits'have been scheduled at over thirty schools. The purpose of the visits was described by President Gellhorn in the following terms: The Association has at times been able to help member schools and their parent universities by making available to them the advisory services of highly regarded legal educators. An outsider's in- formed view may stimulate local consideration of un- noticed imperfections, or may suggest solutions of seemingly intractable problems; moreover, a visitor's awareness of activities elsewhere may encourage fresh experimentation that might not otherwise have occurred. He emphasized that these visits were not to be confused with evalu- ations or inspections to determine if standards were being main- tained: The object in view is not 'inspection' or censorious re- ports, but, rather, the making of suggestions aimed at reinforcing local faculties in their pursuit of excellence. These points were again emphasized in the letters to the visitors explaining their function within the program: You will note that we do not contemplate, in the present context, an 'inspection' or other policing operations. Rather, we are seeking to make available to the member schools the stimulation that will come from purposeful conversation with wise, experienced legal educators from other institutions. We hope that

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