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APPROVAL OF REVISED ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS FOR 1998 - 2006

The following resolution was adopted:

• WHEREAS, the University's existing enrollment plan, approved by the Board of Visitors in February 1997, must be revised to reflect projected reductions in graduate enrollment in Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Education, and Law; and
• WHEREAS, the new Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program is expected to enroll 325 undergraduate students through on-Grounds Continuing Education by 2006; and
• WHEREAS, the revised enrollment projections for 1998-2006 have been submitted to and approved by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia in April 1999;
• RESOLVED that, compared with the 1997 plan, the undergraduate student population stay at the same level projected for 2006; the graduate student population be decreased by 100 headcount students over the same period; the first-professional student population be decreased by 45; and on-Grounds Continuing Education students increased by 266 headcount students, resulting in a total student enrollment target of 120 more on-Grounds students than approved in 1997. The total enrollment in 2006 will be 19,307, or 1,397 more students than the 1989-90 base year.
• RESOLVED FURTHER that all undergraduate growth maintain the current mix of in-state and out-of-state students.