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By GEORGE BOWLES
Where, on Virginia’s laundry list of funding priorities, will the state place higher education in the years immediately ahead?
That was the question haunting legislators and educators in the wake of a melancholy report made public last week by the State Council of Higher Education. The report, which was presented by Council Director Gordon Davies during a meeting of the House of Delegates Appropriations Committee, painted a grim picture of the skyrocketing costs of attending college in the Old Dominion.
According to the report this cost, for both graduate and undergraduate degrees, is rising faster in Virginia than in most other states. For example, the tuition at Longwood College in Farmville will be up 24.2 percent in the school year 1984-86 over that of last year. James Madison University will be up 21.4 percent, VMI 20 percent __
76.6%