 | Board of Visitors minutes April 9, 1954 |  |
SEPARATE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
President Darden laid before the Board a letter from the Dean of the College, as follows
College of Arts and Sciences
Charlottesville, Va.
November 11, 1953
University of Virginia
In their Annual Reports for 1952-53, the Divisions of Philosophy and Psychology of the
Corcoran Department of Philosophy and Psychology strongly recommended that they be established
as separate academic Departments. This recommendation is wholly in accord with the pronounced
trend of recent years in regard to such matters, and I heartily concur in it. Each of the
Divisions is amply large in both staff and enrollment to be a Department, they are housed in
widely separated buildings, and they function quite independently of each other
The name "Corcoran" should be retained by the Department of Philosophy but not by the
Department of Psychology. There was formerly only the "Corcoran School of Philosophy." I
remember when the words "and Psychology" were added to the title.
Acting Dean
After discussion the Board adopted the following resolution
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
that the Division of Psychology in the Corcoran Department of Philosophy and Psychology be and
it is hereby established as a separate department of the College of Arts and Sciences to be
designated the Department of Psychology, its chairman to be designated the Chairman of the
Department of Psychology.
RESOLVED FURTHER that the Division of Philosophy be and it is hereby designated the
Corcoran Department of Philosophy, its chairman to be designated the Chairman of the Corcoran
Department of Philosophy
| Board of Visitors minutes April 9, 1954 | |