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Goals for Our Program's Future
Short
Term Goals (1-2 years):
Scholarships
targeted to increase the diversity of the student participants
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Scholarships
to endow a full scholarships each year in each of the 5 workshop genres
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Funds
to attract visiting writers
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Funds
to produce a Young Writers literary journal
Longer
Term Goals:
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Endowment
that funds the Directorship (which will ensure the program's continuation
beyond Margo Figgins' tenure at the University
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A
full-time school (which could be housed at UVa; it could also be
a charter school).
Interlochen in Michigan is a prototype, with the difference that ours would
foucs on cultivating writers instead of musicians; and another difference
is that it would be public, not private, so that there would be greater
access for all students.
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Regional
and National Conferences for Young Writers
On the order of those which the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation hosts for
adults and which have become the focus on a series of Bill Moyers specials.
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A
parallel workshop for recruiting students -- particularly minority students
-- into the teaching profession (currently a substratum of the program)
which, with more resources, could become a more visible part of what we
do.
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