Longer Term Goals:

- Endowment that funds the Directorship (which will ensure the program's continuation beyond Margo Figgins' tenure at the University)
- A full-time school (which could be housed at UVa; it could also be a charter school).
- Interlochen in Michigan is a prototype, with the difference that ours would focus on cultivating writers instead of musicians; another difference is that it would be public, not private, so that there would be greater access for all students.
- Regional and National Conferences for Young Writers
- On the order of those which the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation hosts for adults and which have become the focus on a series of Bill Moyers specials.
- A parallel workshop for recruiting students -- particularly minority students -- into the teaching profession (currently a substratum of the program) which, with more resources, could become a more visible part of what we do.