U.VA. LAW SCHOOL INCREASES CAMPAIGN GOAL TO $100 MILLION 

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 5 -- The University of Virginia
School of Law's capital campaign executive committee has voted
unanimously to raise the school's campaign goal from $75 million to
$100 million, Dean Robert Scott announced.
	"Recognizing that the School of Law's long-term financial
needs exceed what has been raised thus far, the 21 alumni members of
the campaign executive committee, after careful deliberation, saw this
as a critical moment in assuring that the school succeeds in its
ambitions," Scott said. 
	If the law school meets its new goal, it will join only four
other law schools in the country - Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and NYU -
able to raise $100 million or more in a capital campaign.  As of March
1, the U.Va. Law Campaign has raised $77 million.
	According to the law school's campaign consultant David Ross,
of Ross Johnston Kersting in Durham, N.C., "the campaign's success to
date is a tribute to the school's volunteer leadership and to Dean
Scott's strong commitment to ensuring the law school has the resources
it needs to be one of the nation's top law schools."  Ross added that
"it has become clear that once the law school meets its original
campaign goal, the resources it has at its disposal will still be
insufficient to meet the law school's immediate funding needs in a
number of areas.  It is therefore entirely appropriate - and necessary
- for the law school to increase its goal at this time."
	As state funds account for a decreasing portion of the law
school's operating budget (four percent in the 1996-97 school year),
private funds are critically important if Virginia is to maintain its
standing as one of this country's great university law schools, Scott
said. 
	The funds raised thus far are being used to meet the law
school's basic needs: financing the nearly complete Law Grounds
project, expanding career services, increasing financial aid and
faculty salaries so that they are competitive with peer schools, and
building the law school's unrestricted resource base.
	The additional $25 million will fund the following
initiatives: 
	¥ $11 million to endow two existing financial aid programs.
The Dillard Scholar Program awards three-year scholarships - covering
all law school tuition and fees in addition to a living expense
stipend - to students of unmatched academic and personal excellence.
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Scholarship program funds loan
forgiveness, scholarships, and grants for students who pursue careers
in public interest law.
	¥ $6 million to endow four distinguished professorships,
designed to attract top legal scholars to the law school to anchor its
already strong academic programs.
	¥ $3 million to support a faculty-designed plan for
curriculum enhancement, featuring small classes and tutorials, courses
that meld the insights of theory with the experience of practice, and
a series of professional values seminars.
	¥ $5 million to fund the creation of a residential college
tailored primarily for first-year and international law students.  The
residential college will expand the law school's mission beyond the
walls of the classroom, reinforcing students' intellectual development
in a physical setting in which small group tutorials and other more
intimate learning experiences can flourish.  Located directly across
Massie Road from the law school, the residential college will include
a new commons building that will serve as its centerpiece, housing a
library and seminar, computer, and dining facilities.
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March 4, 1997
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