George Washington University’s Mount Vernon Campus faces renewal of its agreement with the city covering operations at the site and “there are going to be some significant changes.”

So says GW Director of Community Relations Kevin Michael Days.

“We’re going to be much more intentional about how we utilize that campus,” Days told ANC 3D commissioners in July.

Days said the current campus plan expires in December 2020 and GW is committed to a “robust” community engagement about the strategy for the Foxhall Road campus. But he said he did not yet have details. He said GW is working to meet a tight campus plan timetable, but might seek to extend the existing plan.

GW plans to reduce the university’s undergraduate enrollment by 20 percent over the next five years, a move Days said would have “significant impact” on Mount Vernon. With new leadership and the views of students and alumni in hand, Days said GW’s strategy is “not to get bigger, but to get better.”

From 2014 to 2018, undergraduate enrollment at GW rose about 16 percent, going from  10,433, or 40.7 percent of the total enrollment, to 12,161, or 43.2 percent of the total, according to GW data. Graduate students make up the largest percentage of GW’s enrollment.

The 23-acre Mount Vernon campus headcount, defined as students with a housing assignment or taking a credit class on the campus, went from 1,563 in fall 2014 to 1,645 in fall 2018, according to GW data, an increase of about 5 percent. Under the current campus plan, the student headcount is not to exceed 1,725.