June 25, 2004

U. of Virginia Unexpectedly Opens $3-Billion Campaign to Become a 'Private' Public University

By ERIN STROUT

Given a choice, the University of Virginia's president, John T. Casteen III, would have kept quiet for a while longer its recently announced seven-year, $3-billion fund-raising campaign -- the largest ever by a public university.

But being a public university means abiding by open-meetings laws. So when a discussion of Virginia's fund-raising efforts at a Board of Visitors meeting this month turned more specific than some administrators had anticipated, the cat was out of the

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