Goals for Our Program's Future

Short Term Goals (1-2 years):

Scholarships targeted to increase the diversity of the student participants
Scholarships to endow a full scholarships each year in each of the 5 workshop genres
Funds to attract visiting writers
Funds to produce a Young Writers literary journal

Longer Term Goals:

Endowment that funds the Directorship (which will ensure the program's continuation beyond Margo Figgins' tenure at the University
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.
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.
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.