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Virginia’s College of Veterinary Medicine, forced to a crawl during the last three years due to the State’s financial difficulties, took a huge jump forward Monday, December 5, when the State Council of Higher Education voted approval of the school being developed at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Approval from the Council clears the way for Virginia Tech officials to apply for federal grants and private funds to begin construction on the facility. The College has been in the planning phase since 1973, when a Legislative Study Commission recommended to the General Assembly of Virginia that a College of Veterinary Medicine be established in the State at VPIASU. The 1974 Assembly approved planning funds for the College but the Governor, faced with a deficit in his budget, asked that the funds not be released at that time. He gave Virginia Tech permission to use private money so that the planning process could continue. Over the last three years, the planning has progressed on schedule. Preliminary architectural plans have been completed and the American Veterinary Medical Association Council on Education, the accrediting body for Veterinary Colleges,
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