The Assumptions

Taken for Granted:

• That this institution is, and will remain, devoted to the pursuit of excellence in higher education, and the delivery of educational services of the highest quality.

• That the current strengths of the institution will be safeguarded and, where possible, enhanced.

• That the Fredericksburg campus will remain an academically self-contained, selective, primarily residential, undergraduate college of arts and sciences, with its own faculty and shared governance system, independent of the academic units on the James Monroe campus.

• That the long-standing enrollment cap of 4,000 (headcount) on the Fredericksburg Campus will remain in place indefinitely.

• That no matter what names are eventually decided upon for the institution and its various parts, the name "Mary Washington College" will be prominently preserved.

• That with the establishment of the James Monroe Center for Graduate and Professional Studies and the second campus, this institution has committed itself to becoming a "university".

• That the addition of baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate professional degree programs, already begun at the James Monroe Center, will continue into the future.

• That the newly initiated and future academic programs at the James Monroe Center will be academically independent of the established programs, faculty, and governance system of the Fredericksburg Campus.

• That program development and enrollment growth at the James Monroe Center will move forward without any pre-established limits or enrollment caps.

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