University of Virginia Library

Meet State's Needs

On the future growth of the University, Mr.
Hereford stated that the University "as a state
institution has to meet the state's needs in
higher education." In deciding on the enlarging
of the size of the University, he added that "to
meet the requirements of the state we could
have kept the school the same size but we
would have then had to raise the admission
requirements. We could have also accepted
fewer out-of-state students. Instead we decided
to increase the size of the student body."