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UVM leader presents strategic plan, asks state for funding to support students, cancer care and a multipurpose center
Summary
Dr. Marlene Trapp told the House Commerce & Economic Development Committee that UVM will seek a 3% inflationary increase to maintain need-based aid, $1 million a year for five years for rural cancer-care expansion, and $15 million toward a multipurpose center while highlighting research gains and housing challenges.
Dr. Marlene Trapp, speaking to the House Commerce and Economic Development Committee on Feb. 4, outlined a strategic plan for the University of Vermont that emphasizes serving the state, expanding research and workforce pipelines, and securing state and philanthropic support for student aid, health care and a proposed multipurpose center.
Trapp told lawmakers that "we have nearly 4,000 Vermont students; 32% of those students are Pell eligible," and said 18% of Vermont students are first-generation college students. She said roughly 48% of students attend tuition-free because of direct university support and that more than half of the state appropriation goes to Vermont students.
The university leader also stressed UVM's research profile and economic role. "We have recently achieved R1 designation," Trapp said, citing the Carnegie classification for…
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