Chap. 369.—An ACT to provide that the heads of the tax-supported institutions
of higher learning shall confer with each other, with the rectors or chairmen
of the governing boards of said institutions, with the State superintendent
of public instruction and the State board of education under the direction of
the governor, for the purpose of preparing a plan eliminating unnecessary
duplication, defining the educaticnal scope and activity of each institution and
means for future coordination; to provide for the elimination of certain
courses and to prevent future cuplication. [S B 45]

Approved March 22, 102

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the heads
of tax-supported institutions of higher learning confer with each other,
with the rectors or chairmen of the governing boards of said institu-
tions, with the superintendent cf public instruction and the State board
of education, under the direction of the governor, for the purpose of
coordinating their educational activities and eliminating all unnecessary
duplications therein. The conferees shall report to the general ass~inbly
of nineteen hundred and thirty a plan defining the educational scope
and activity of each institution and means for their coordination.
Pending such report, said institutions shall eliminate all courses of
study for which there is an unusually small demand and which are
not essential for advanced instruction or full departmental programs;
and no institution shall establish or inaugurate any school or depart-
ment which duplicates in whole or in part any school or department
existing in any other tax-supported institution, but nothing herein shall
be construed as an approval of unnecessary duplications that may
now exist.