DANVILLE COLLEGE OFFERS TO HELP WITH STUDENT GLUT

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, February 1, 1993                   TAG: 9302010061
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: DANVILLE                                LENGTH: Short
DANVILLE COLLEGE OFFERS TO HELP WITH STUDENT GLUT
Averett College wants to test whether private and public colleges and universities can join forces to take care of a booming enrollment expected in the next few years.
Del. Whitt Clement, D-Danville, will ask the General Assembly to put up $100,000 for the pilot project.
The State Council on Higher Education last year studied the idea of a venture between private and public schools. The agency proposed contracts with independent colleges as one of several strategies to help Virginia absorb 65,000 additional students by the year 2000.
Education officials worry that a new surge of students heading toward Virginia's public colleges will be a disaster for the higher education system.
According to the proposal, Virginia Community College System students with two-year college transfer degrees would be able to enroll in an independent Virginia college such as Averett.
The students would pay a tuition of no more than the average tuition of the four-year public colleges.
In turn, the independent college would receive from the state a payment for each participating student. The payment would equal the average amount of state support per undergraduate student at the four-year public colleges.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB