 | Board of Visitors minutes September 14, 1973 |  |
THE PRESIDENT AND THE FACULTY
The President's role with regard to the faculty should consist of the following concerns and responsibilities:
President should accept personal responsibility for the e faculty. Realizing that a first-rate faculty makes university, the President should hold himself for seeing that the University of Virginia has the uished faculty possible. In this connection, the President should:
A) establish the highest standards for the faculty.
B) actively recruit Visiting Professors and seek funds to pay for Visiting Professorships
C) personally review all cases of hiring or firing faculty, as well as all cases of granting or with-holding tenure or promotions.
2) The President should make every effort to make the faculty feel that he is interested in each and every one of them and in the work that each of them is doing.
3)e President should commit the University to substantially the number of qualified "minority-group" professors on the.
4) The President should be concerned about broad areas of curriculum (i.e. the establishment of new areas of curriculum) but should not be concerned about the establishment of specific courses.
5) The President should be actively involved in securing funds for the construction of new facilities whenever such faciliare needed and should be constantly aware of what new ties are needed by the University and their priority.
6)President should be concerned about and should hold himseponsible for improving the low-status departments at the University so that all departments at the University are distinguished.
| Board of Visitors minutes September 14, 1973 | |