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INQUIRY FROM DELEGATE MIDDLETON

The President reported that he had received an inquiry from Delegate Richard H. Middleton
as to the future possibility of the admission of females from Charlottesville and Albemarle
County directly from high school to the first undergraduate year at the University at Charlottesville.
The President stated that he had written Delegate Middleton informing him that, since
the School of Education, as of September 1964, would no longer admit undergraduate students to
its program who had not previously completed 60 hours of work in the liberal arts, there is no
longer any possibility of a girl entering the School of Education directly from high school. He
stated he had also informed Delegate Middleton that the Board of Visitors has been quite strict
in not allowing women to enter the College of Arts and Sciences at Charlottesville since Mary
Washington College is the women's college of arts and sciences. The President stated he had
informed Delegate Middleton that his inquiry would be called to the Board's attention to see if
the Board desired to make any change in existing policy. The Board declined to act and ordered
the report to be filed.