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Board Establishes Institute
For National Policy Studies

The University Board of
Visitors established an Institute
of National Policy Studies at
its meeting June 1 and named a
six-member council, including
Gov. Linwood Holton, to
supervise the institute.

The institute will
"contribute to the solution of
major problems, at the national
level, of a political, legal,
economic, or social nature," a
Board resolution stated.

"It will engage in
comprehensive and intensive
research into problems such as
the role of the presidency
within the federal system and
the administration of justice,"
the resolution added.
"Short-term and transitory
projects should be avoided."

A small group of senior
fellows of the institute will
constitute an advisory group to
a director who will be appointed
by the same Board committee
which will nominate a
University president. The
Board must give final approval
to the committee's decision.

Research fellows will be
appointed on a contract basis
to work on each project, and
graduate students will be
employed as research
assistants. However, the
institute will offer no
curriculum or degrees, and the
fellows will have no tenure.

The institute will be
supported by endowment
funds already received from
anonymous sources, but will
not become operative until
additional funds have been
received "to support a
continuing program consistent
with the standards and
purposes of the University."

University capital outlay
requests for the 1974-76
biennium include $61,750 in
planning funds for a social
science research building,
which would house the new
institute, plus the Tayloe
Murphy Institute and the
Institute of Government.

In other action, the Board
established a series of
fellowships in the Graduate
School of Business
Administration with a gift of
$500,000 from the late Sydney
F. Small, former mayor of
Roanoke and vice president of
the Norfolk and Western
Railway. He was active in the
graduate business school's
sponsors, who are alumni and
interested persons supporting
the school.

The board also
acknowledged the resignation
of J. Harvie Wilkinson III A
1971 graduate of the law school,
Mr. Wilkinson became the first
student to serve on the Board
in 1970. He resigned to join the
law faculty for the coming
year.

Ralph Cohen and E. Donald
Hirsch were named William R.
Knan Jr. professors of
English, and Roland McKean
was named Commonwealth
professor of economics.

University of Texas
Commerce Prof. Ernest W.
Walker was named Virginia
Bakers Association commerce
professor, and Indiana
University Prof. John H.
Meyers was named Carmen G.
Blough commerce professor.

The Board also elected C.
Knight Aldrich as professor of
psychiatry. He will also work
as director of the Blue Ridge
Mental Health Clinic.