Nearly 200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson was considering a farm just outside Charlottesville as a site for a new and different type of university, where education would be separated from religious doctrine. The site – then owned by James Monroe – ultimately became the Grounds of the University of Virginia.

This spring, 37 U.Va. students in three seminar classes have been doing something similar at Morven Farm: envisioning and helping define how it can be used as a new type of educational environment where the University's goals of community outreach, scholarship and education can be melded with the land's unique agricultural, environmental and historical resources.

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