The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) is the Commonwealth's coordinating body for higher education. SCHEV was established by the

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and

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in 1956. Its mission, which is outlined in the

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§23.1-200
, is "to promote the development of an educationally and economically sound, vigorous, progressive, and coordinated system of higher education in the

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Director

Peter A. Blake joined SCHEV as Interim Executive Director on April 1, 2011, a position that was made permanent in January 2012. A former

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, Blake previously worked at SCHEV as an Associate Director overseeing higher education analyses in the areas of faculty and staff compensation, higher education funding policies, academic libraries, distance learning and instructional technology, and student financial aid. He left SCHEV in 1999 to serve as the Legislative Fiscal Analyst for the Virginia General Assembly's House Appropriations Committee.

Location

SCHEV is located on the 9th floor of the

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in downtown Richmond.

External links

''State Council of Higher Education for Virginia'', Code of Virginia, Title 23.1, Chapter 2
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