
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, September 15, 1995                   TAG: 9509150068
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: MANASSAS                                LENGTH: Short

NEW COLLEGE TO FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY

A new high-tech college campus will be the center of an industrial and research complex to be built over the coming decade, George Mason University officials said Thursday.

The Prince William Institute is an expansion campus of George Mason University. The state-funded school's fast-growing main campus is in Fairfax County.

The 120-acre new campus will offer undergraduate and graduate programs with an emphasis on technology and engineering. There also are plans for courses in education, nursing and other disciplines.

The Prince William Institute is expected to enroll between 800 and 1,000 students eventually.

The new school will take George Mason's business links with Northern Virginia high-tech industries to a new level, with one private firm actually sharing office space in classroom buildings.

``It is all on the premise that we can partner with the private sector, the local business community, state and local government,'' said George Mason President George Johnson.

The partnership symbolically broke ground in the $13 million first phase of the project Thursday, at the site of the planned complex on farmland about 40 miles west of Washington, D.C.

by CNB