 | Board of Visitors minutes October 10, 1952 |  |
ATHLETIC COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr. Talbott, Chairman of the Athletic Committee, read the report of his committee, as
set forth below:
THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA:
At a meeting of the Board held December 14, 1951, the following resolution was adopted:
"BE IT RESOLVED that the Rector be asked to appoint a committee of the
Board to study the type of organization which should be established for the
control of athletics."
The undersigned constitute the committee appointed by the Rector pursuant to this resolution.
In the discharge of its functions the Committee has had the benefit of all recorded actions
by faculty and other groups interested in the problem and has given careful consideration to and, in
many respects has profited by, their views and recommendations.
The White Committee, which reported to the President of the University in December, 1934,
recommended institutional control of inter-collegiate athletics, intramural sports and physical
education. We understand that this fundamental principle has prevailed in theory since the White
report was approved, but that changing conditions have brought about some changes in administrative
functions. Furthermore, in our opinion, present circumstances make it advisable to specify more
particularly the functions of an Advisory Council as set up in the White Report, now known as the
3-3-3 Committee. Since the death of Captain Pritchett, the Director of the Department of Athletics
has not held faculty status. We approve the fundamental principle stated in the White report. We
believe that the institutional control therein recommended is the proper form of control to be exercised
over the Department of Athletics.
In order to implement this principle, we recommend the following:
(1) That responsibility for administration of the Department of Athletics shall be placed
on a Director of Athletics, who shall have faculty status and the pay of a Department Head, and that
the Director shall be responsible to the President of the University.
(2) That the faculty shall, as heretofore, have the responsibility of setting the standards
required for the maintenance of acceptable academic standing for students in general, that students
who maintain such standards shall be eligible to represent the University in athletic competition, subject
to such regulations as may be established by the administrative authorities of the University, including
the Board of Visitors, regarding eligibility in respects other than that of acceptable academic
standing. The policy of the University concerning scholarships which may be awarded to students who
participate in inter-collegiate athletics is reserved for decision by the Board of Visitors, which will
act, of course, with the benefit of recommendations from the administrative authorities and the Advisory
Council hereinafter mentioned.
(3) That an Advisory Council on Athletics be established which shall consist of
(a) Three members from the Faculty, appointed by the President.
(b) Two members from the Alumni Association, elected by its Board of Managers, and
(c) Two members from the Student Body, elected by the Student Council,
that this Advisory Council shall be authorized to select its own Chairman and to adopt rules or regulations
governing its sessions and the transaction of its business; that the Advisory Council shall be
required to meet once in each calendar quarter and at such additional times as may appear necessary, on
call of its chairman or of the Director of Athletics, that the Director of Athletics shall be required
to report to the Council at each meeting concerning his administration of the Department and to suggest
to the Council for its discussion and for advisory action any questions then existing or anticipated by
the Director as likely to arise prior to the next regularly scheduled Council meeting, that this Council
shall have the function of advising with the Director of Athletics concerning all major decisions affecting
the administration of his Department, of referring to the Board of Visitors for its consideration
questions of policy deemed by the Council to be appropriate for Board action, and of recommending to
the Board of Visitors action on any question concerning the Department referred by the Board to the
Council.
(4) That the administration of the Department of Athletics shall be under the supervision
of the President and administrative authorities of the University, and that decision on
all questions involved in its operation shall, as in other phases of the University's activities,
be subject to review and final determination by the Board of Visitors.
After the report was read and discussed, a resolution was adopted as follows
RESOLVED that the report of the Athletic Committee be received and filed.
The Secretary was instructed to mimeograph the report and distribute copies, (1) to
members of the Board of Visitors, (2) to the President of the University, (3) to the Secretary of
the University Senate, (4) to the President of the Student Council, (5) to the President of the
Alumni Association, and (6) to the President of the Student Aid Foundation, together with a letter
from the Secretary requesting the President of the Alumni Association to solicit the views of the
organized Alumni chapters for presentation to the Board, also to state that the Board will hold a
special meeting upon a date to be set at which the Alumni will be heard.
The Secretary was asked to send a copy of the University Senate's recommendations on the
control of athletics to the President of the Alumni Association, the President of the Student
Council, and to the President of the Student Aid Foundation.
The Board also wished to record a vote of thanks to the Athletic Committee for its work
in preparing this report.
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