University of Virginia Library

Faculty Committee Studies
Need For Women In College

Headed By T. Braxton Woody

By Dan Shipp
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

A ten-man faculty committee,
headed by T. Braxton Woody,
has been formed to study the
need for admitting women to
the College.

The committee was authorized
by the University's Board of
Visitors last April. At that meeting,
the board adopted a resolution
empowering University
President Edgar F. Shannon to
"conduct a study to determine
the need for the admission of
women to the College of Arts
and Sciences at Charlottesville."

Members of the committee, appointed
by President Shannon
last summer, include faculty
members from various schools
of the University and Mary
Washington College.

Other Members

In addition to Mr. Woody, they
are Mrs. Zula Mae Bice, associate
professor of nursing, history professor
C. Julian Bishko, professor
of pediatrics McLemore
Birdsong and Richard M. Brandt,
assistant professor of education.

Other members from the University
are John C. McCoid, professor
of law, John W. Stewart,
associate professor of physics,
and John Cook Wyllie, director
of libraries.

Two From Mary Washington

Two members of the committee
are members of the faculty
at Mary Washington College.
They are James H. Crouschore,
chairman of the English department;
and Albert R. Klein, chairman
of Mary Washington's
dramatic art and speech department.

The committee will meet to
study the need for allowing women
to pursue a course of study
leading to the bachelor of arts
degree in the College. At the
present time, women can enter
all programs at the University
except the BA degree.

Study Means

When the committee completes
its study, they will make a report
to President Shannon. If their
findings indicate that a need for
co-education in the College exists.
Mr. Shannon has been empowered
by the Board of Visitors
to conduct another "of the
feasibility and means of such admission."

The most popular plan for a
women's extension to the University
envisions the main dormitories
being built at Birdwood.
The University owns most of the
land that would be needed, and
the rest can be bought if the
need arises.

'Association'

Paul Saunier, Special Assistant
to President Shannon, described
the proposed co-education addition
as a kind of "association."
He compared the new college to
the colleges at Yale, where several
hundred men live in an area
in which most of their activities
are located.

The college at Birdwood would
include dormitories and some
classrooms for humanity courses
only. Any science, architecture,
or engineering courses would be
taken at the men's part of the
University.

If a co-educational college were
authorized it might start out with
just the third and fourth years,
gradually expanding to become
a four year institution.