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RESOLVED, that the resignation of Mr. Edmund Olaf Belsheim be and the same is hereby accepted with
regret. We wish for Mr. Belsheim the highest success in his new undertaking.

The Committee on the Consolidation of Mary Washington College with the University of Virginia wishes
to make the following report:

The Act of February 22, 1944 (Acts 1944, Chapter 54, page 55), having become effective on June 24, 1944
provides that Mary Washington College shall be converted into a liberal arts college for women, the title of
which shall be Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, with the same standards of admission and
graduation as obtain for male students in the College of Arts and Sciences of the University located at
Charlottesville, that the supervision, management, and control of the college shall pass from the State Board
of Education to the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, that the college shall thereafter be
affiliated with the University of Virginia as an integral part thereof, and that this conversion shall be
effected during a period not to exceed four years.

The Committee feels keenly that the above constitutes a mandate that Mary Washington College be converted
into a liberal arts college for women of equal excellence in every respect as the College of Arts and
Sciences of the University of Virginia, that it maintain equal standards of scholarship, and that the physical
plant, especially its laboratories and library be comparably staffed and equipped. The Qualifications of its
faculty, also, should be equal to those of similar officers of instruction of the University, and salary scales
therefore, must eventually be the same.

Since the conversion of Mary Washington College into a liberal arts college is the most important
single item of its consolidation with the University, the Committee considered carefully the report of a
faculty committee of the University to the Chancellor of Mary Washington College on its conversion into a
college of liberal arts, also a report prepared by a committee of the Mary Washington faculty. In its
tentative form our report was then submitted to these respective faculty committees for criticism and further
suggestions, many of which were incorporated. The Chancellor and the President of Mary Washington attended
the meetings of the Board Committee, and as a result of the joint discussions, that Committee now makes the
following recommendations:

I. Curriculum Changes

That all of the specialized programs or curriculn be discontinued, and that Mary Washington College
offer only the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

• 1. That the Department of Education be discontinued since the law states that students shall not be-admitted
  to technical courses designed for the training of teachers, but that the course in the
  History and Philosophy of Education be retained and be offered in the Department of Psychology
  and Philosophy.

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• 2. That courses in home economics be discontinued excent such theory courses as may later
  be included in other departments.

• 3. That credit courses in stenography, typewriting, and office practice be discontinued.

• 4. That courses in library science be discontinued.

II. Entrance

• 1. That fifteen units be required for admission of which three shall be in English, and two
  in mathematics. One of the latter may be in general or basic mathematics, but not in
  business mathematics or arithmetic. In cases of applicants from public highschools, full
  graduation is required for admission.

• 2. That no credit be allowed for less than two units of the same foreigh language, or for more
  than four units in vocational subjects.

III. Degree Requirements

• 1. That one hundred and eighty nine quarter hours, or one hundred and twenty-six semester
  hours of credit be required for the Bachelor of Arts degree of which nine quarter hours,
  or six semester hours must be in physical education.

• 2. That only nine quarter hours, or six semester hours of work in physical education including
  hygiene be counted toward the degree.

• 3. That credit for courses in applied art and applied musicle limited to an equal number of
  credits in theory courses taken in these respective fields.

• 4. That other specific degree and major requirements be worked out by the faculty of Mary
  Washington College in accordance with the practice prevailing in the highest ranking
  liberal arts colleges for women, subject to the approval of the Rector and Board of
  Visitors.

IV. Courses of Instruction

• 1. That the departmental type of organization be followed at Mary Washington College.

• 2. That the President and Chancellor in consultation with the faculty work out details as to
  the number of departments, subjects of study to be included in each, and number and rank of
  necessary teaching personnel.

• 3. That President Combs in Consultation with the Chancellor decide on new positions which are
  to be created, subject, of course, to the approval of the Rector and the Board of Visitors.

• 4. That major programs be offered at present in Art, Biology, Chemistry, Dramatic Arts and
  Speech, Economics and Business Administration, English, French, German, History, Latin
  Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Spanish.
  That the College should not at present attempt to offer major programs in Geology,
  Greek, Italian, Physics, Portuguese, or Russian.

• 5. It is further recommended that the quarter courses be replaced by session courses as soon
  as possible, or that the college be organized on a semester basis.

V. Faculty

• 1. The faculty shall be a legislative body with final authority, under the Rector and Visitors
  to pass upon all academic regulations such as degree requirements, awards of honors,
  grading system, attendance regulations, rules of academic discipline, courses offered for
  credit toward degrees, and the granting of degrees.

  We recommend that a committee on academic standards and legislation be constituted,
  and that it report to the faculty on any matters that may come before it.

  We further recommend that all matters of academic legislation be referred to the
  faculty for action, and that the faculty be empowered to act with final authority, subject
  to the approval of the Rector and Visitors.

• 2. That faculty salaries at Mary Washington College be rused gradually so as to be equal to
  salaries for comparable positions at the University of Virginia when the conversion shall
  have been completed.

• 3. For the coming biennium we recommend the following faculty salary scale:

  • Instructors from $1800 to $2300

  • Assistant Professors from $2400 to $2900

  • Associate Professors from $3000 to $3400

  • Professors from $3500 to $4300

  We commend the following statement made by President Newcomb in his Budget Requests of the
  University of Virginia for the Biennium 1946-1948 and recommend that it apply to the
  faculty of Mary Washington College, also:

  "Automatic Increases. The one undertaking that would do more to strengthen the
  faculty of the University, hearten and encourage the best talent to stay, and enable us
  to attract finer scholars to our teaching staff would be a return of the Automatic Increase
  in Salary Schedule, abandoned with the session of 1932-33 because of the depression.
  It provided for small increases in salary, within rent, based upon length and quality of
  service....It should be brought back into effect beginning with the session of 1946-47....
  I cannot too strongly urge upon the Governor and the Budget Commission the resumption of
  this automatic Salary Schedule, because I am convinced that its re-establishment would
  be of greater value to the University as a training and research institution than any
  other one thing that we could possibly do. The staff richly deserves these increases,
  and they should be provided."

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• 4. We assume that the Rector and Board of Visitors have a right to continue tenure of professors,
  associate professors, assistant professors, and instructors from year to year until such time as
  the consolidation of Mary Washington with the University has been completed (June 24, 1948),
  and recommend that President Combs be authorized to renew faculty contracts from year to year
  until that time, subject to the approval of the Rector and Visitors.

  We recommend that after June 24, 1942, the same faculty tenure be established at Mary
  Washington College as obtains at the University of Virginia, Viz.,

  • Instructors - one year

  • Assistant Professors - three years

  • Associate and Full Professors - indefinite or life tenure

  • Acting Professors, Acting Associate, and Acting Assistant Professors - one year

• 5. That departmental employees giving instruction in music on a fee basis only, shall not be
  considered members of the faculty.

• 6. That a Director of Admission be appointed.

VI. Library

We recognize the fact that an educational institution is seriously handicaped without an adequate
library service. As a college of liberal arts, the library facilities of Mary Washington
must be improved. We, therefore, recommend that provision be made in its budget for an annual
library appropriation of at least $50,000, to be used for increases in library personnel, for the
purchase of books and magazines, for binding, equipment and et cetera under the direction of the
librarian.

Finally, we recommend that a standing committee be appointed to report to the Rector and Board
of Visitors from time to time on matters connected with the conversion of Mary Washington College
into a college of liberal arts, and on its consolidation with the University.

Of necessity this report deals only with the broad phases of the conversion. Many details will
have to be worked out by the administration and faculty of Mary Washington College. The Committee
leaves the responsibility for this in the able hands of the Chancellor and of the President of the
College.

The Committee realizes that the success of the conversion of Mary Washington College into the
best type of liberal arts college for women depends on the full cooperation of students, faculty,
administration, Rector and Visitors, and we urge that all work together to carry out not only the
letter, but the spirit of the law to the end that we keep faith with the women of the state, and
with those who envisioned for them this new Mary Washington as a integral part of our great
University.

At your request we have made a personal examination of the property owned by Mr. Charles Barham,
Jr., situated on the west side of Route 29, just north of the C. & O. Railway, containing 9.27 acr
more or less, and we believe a fair price for said property to be $15,000.00

RESOLVED, that the offer of Charles Barham, Jr., and Mrs. Emmalou Barham, his wife, to sell
said tract of land to the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia at the price of $13935.00
is hereby accepted. And the Attorney for the University is directed to proceed to examine title to
said property and take such other steps as may be necessary to close the transaction if title is
found free of exceptions.

"WHEREAS, it appears that a number of concessions are not being operated at the University without
the maximum benefit therefrom to the student body, and that the revenues therefrom are being
applied for various purposes, and

WHEREAS, it appears desirable that all such concessions should be operated with the sanction and
under the supervision and control of the University administration, and that all revenues therefrom
should be applied for the benefit of the student body by the establishment of scholarships,
or otherwise;