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UNIVERSITY of the VIRGIN ISLANDS



RESOLUTION



WHEREAS, the state of Hawaii and the Commonwealth of Puerto

Rico spend 11% and 9% of their annual operating budget on higher

education, and the average state on the U.S. mainland expends

12%; and



WHEREAS, the University of the Virgin Islands ("University")

is under-funded in relation to other United States or territorial

institutions of higher learning; and



WHEREAS, the University of the Virgin Islands provides only a

small fraction of the higher educational programs and services

ordinarily provided by state supported colleges and universities

in the United States and Puerto Rico; and



WHEREAS, the University of the Virgin Islands needs to

strengthen, expand and increase its higher educational programs

and services to meet the growing demand for such programs and

services in the Virgin Islands during the current decade and

twenty-first century; and



WHEREAS, a concerted effort by the University is necessary

to improve its funding position;



NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that the Chairman and

President of the University are hereby authorized to petition the

Legislature of the Virgin Islands for legislation increasing the

funding provided to the University by the Government of the

Virgin Islands ("Government") by an annual increase in the

University’s budget equal to 1% of the annual operating

expenditures of the Government in each year over the next 5 years

until the budget of the University is increased to 9% of the

annual general operating expenditures of the Government of the

Virgin Islands.



DATED: DO par Lhe. c. Kean



ORVILLE E. KEAN

Secretary to the Board



CERTIFICATION



The undersigned does hereby certify that the foregoing is a true

and exact copy of a resolution of of the Board of Trustees of the

University of the Virgin Islands adopted at its meeting on



June 9, 1991, as recorded in the Minutes of said meeting.



Secretary to the Board