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Radford credits Tuition Promise for enrollment gains, asks legislature for $2M to recruit nursing faculty
Summary
Board members said the Radford Tuition Promise helped boost enrollment and retention; the administration asked the board to back a FY26 request for $2 million to recruit and retain nursing faculty and to seek preplanning funds for a Roanoke health‑science facility.
Radford University officials told the Board of Visitors that the Radford Tuition Promise has driven enrollment growth and student retention and that university leaders will ask the Commonwealth for targeted funding to expand health‑science capacity.
University presenters said the Tuition Promise reached thousands of undergraduate students and underpinned the institution’s first net enrollment growth since 2019. The board heard multiple data points: the transcript records an overall figure of 7,812 students reached in recent reporting and states…
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