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RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE STUDY BY THE STATE COUNCIL OF HIGHER
EDUCATION ON THE FUTURE STATUS OF MARY WASHINGTON COLLEGE

The University of Virginia has long been concerned with providing high quality educational opportunities to develop the abilities and fulfill the needs of the young people of the Commonwealth through the University at Charlottesville and four-year institutions of the University in other geographical locations in the State.

The growing cost of higher education and the increased needs and expectancy of the people of Virginia for higher education can be met only if Virginia's higher educational institutions are soundly planned and efficiently operated. In seeking to open new opportunities for young men and women, Virginia's colleges and universities have undertaken to avoid duplication, make efficient use of facilities, and continue to seek ways of strengthening the State's diversified system of higher education. The University is committed to responding effectively to these new demands for higher education during the 1970's.

The following resolution was adopted:

• WHEREAS Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, a liberal arts college, formerly the woman's college of the University of Virginia, draws its students from throughout the State and nation and, by action of the Board of Visitors and the General Assembly, no longer limits its enrollment to the admission of women; and
• WHEREAS under Article 23-9.6 of the Code of Virginia the State Council of Higher Education is "charged with the duty of assembling data and, with the aid of the boards and officers of the several institutions, preparing plans under which the several state-supported institutions of higher education in Virginia shall constitute a coordinated system," and
• WHEREAS there have been recent studies, beginning with the Report of the Higher Education Study Commission of 1965 prepared by John Dale Russell and culminating in the College's Self-Study of 1971, concerning the future of the College and recommending new dimensions of development for the College, including separation from the University of Virginia;
• NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia that the State Council of Higher Education be and it is hereby requested to study and advise the Board of Visitors concerning the future relationship of Mary Washington College to the University of Virginia, so as to fulfill to the greatest extent possible the educational needs of the people of the Commonwealth and the further development of the educational quality and stature of Mary Washington College.