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TARGETING EXCELLENCE

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

State Actions and Responses

• The Case for Change, Fall 1989 Commonwealth of Virginia Commission on the University of the 21st Century (the report of a Governor's commission on the future of higher education)

• Update on the University's Response to the Report of the Commission on the University of the 21st Century: Developments Since 1990, UVA November 1992

• Statement to the Joint House and Senate Education Committees, December 1992 Gordon K. Davies, Director, SCHEV

• Change and Improvement in Higher Education: A Preliminary Report to the Governor and General Assembly, January 1993 SCHEV report (various drafts of this report stimulated vigorous response for Virginia's higher education institutions in the Fall of 1992 and Spring of 1993)

• The Presidents' Response to Change and Improvement in Higher Education, September 1993 Council of Presidents (of public higher education institutions in Virginia; this responded to an early draft of the SCHEV report)

• Legislative Language on Restructuring, March 1994 General Assembly

• Legislative Language on Decentralization, March 1994 General Assembly

• Resolution on Enrollment Growth, UVA January 1990, Board of Visitors

• Plan for the Year 2000, UVA January 1993 (produce of a long-term, University-wide strategic planning process)

• Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Reductions in Expenditures in Arts and Sciences, UVA March 1993, Harold H. Kolb, Jr., Chair

• Summary of PEW roundtable discussions from April 6-7 meetings, UVA April 1993, PEW Recorder

• Resolution on Enrollment Growth, UVA June 1993, Board of Visitors

• Sustaining and Building Excellence In Difficult Times: The Research University in the 1990s: The Case of the University of Virginia, UVA September 1993, Steering Committee of the Assembly of Professors and the Faculty Senate

• Sample responses from department chairs to Thomas H. Jackson's request for information concerning how departments address elementary and lower division teaching, UVA October - November 1993

• .On Constructive Change at the University of Virginia: A Presentation to the Board of Visitors, UVA November 1993 Ruhi Ramazani, Chair, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs

• Memo to Academic Deans Regarding the Process to Evaluate All University Operations, UVA November 1993 Thomas H. Jackson, Vice President and Provost and Don E. Detmer Vice President and Provost for Health Sciences

• Proposal for an alternative mechanism for self-study (made to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) as part of the University's reaccreditation process plan), UVA November 1993. The proposal was accepted.
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