SD15 - How Virginia Can Best Maintain High Quality Engineering Programs in its Public Institutions of Higher Education

  • Published: 1984
  • Author: General Assembly Joint Subcommittee
  • Enabling Authority: Senate Joint Resolution 5 (Regular Session, 1983)

Executive Summary:
The Joint Subcommittee Studying How Virginia Can Best Maintain High Quality Engineering Programs in its Public Institutions of Higher Education was authorized to conduct its study by Senate Joint Resolution No. 5, which was agreed to during the 1983 Session of the General Assembly. The resolution may be found in the appendices of this report.

Senate Joint Resolution No. 5, 1983, requested that a joint subcommittee of the Senate Education and Health and Finance Committees, and the House Education and Appropriations Committees be established to study how Virginia can best maintain the high quality engineering programs in its public institutions of higher education.

Appointed to serve on the joint subcommittee were Senators Willard J. Moody of Portsmouth, Chairman, Frank W. Nolen of New Hope, and Stanley C. Walker of Norfolk; and Delegates V. Earl Dickinson of Mineral, Franklin P. Hall of Richmond, Royston Jester, III, of Lynchburg, Joan H. Munford of Blacksburg, and Mitchell Van Yahres of Charlottesville, Vice-Chairman. Also appointed to the joint subcommittee were John T. Casteen, III, Secretary of Education; Gordon K. Davies, Director of the State Council of Higher Education; and Ray E. Martin, a practicing engineer, of Richmond.