Visitation and CoordinateEducation In November, the University of Richmond Board of Trustees voted to extend visitation in university dormitories, and to create the post of dean of the faculty of arts and sciences combining the faculties of both Richmond and Westhampton Colleges . After rejecting the initial student proposal to permit 24-hour visitation , the board adopted a plan which would allow each student to choose a dormitory either with or without visitation privileges. In effect , the dormitories will be open from noon until midnight Sunday through Thursday and from noon until 2 a .m . Friday and Saturday. The present system limits dormitory visitation from noon until I a .m . Friday and Saturday, and from noon until 8 p .m. on Sunday . The Board of Trustees modified regulations governing dormitory visitation in accordance with the new plan. Freshmen and transfer students will need parental permission for the life style they select , and all parents will be informed of the choice their son or daughter makes . Moreover, the student affairs committee of the Board of Trustees will be required to report annually on visitation at the university. "Today 's students are better prepared, more knowledgeable , and bring to the campus a wider variety of life experiences than students of the past," said Dr. William Leftwich, vice president for student affairs . "Our general philosophy is to attempt to provide the student with opportunities where he can demonstrate increasing responsibility for determining his own life style, and make him a more productive and responsible citizen ." The new visitation policy will become effective at the beginning
of the academic year in August 1975. Headed by Dr. Rosalind Barker, the trustees subcommittee on coordinate education recommended that Westhampton College for women and Richmond College for men retain separate living facilities and student governments, but integrate the academic programs and curricula . The trustees approved the creation of the position of Dean of the Faculty of Art s and Sciences , while redefining the positions of the deans of Richmond College and Westhampton College so that they may devote their time and efforts more fully to the concerns of the students . In keeping with this concept , the deans of the colleges will be involved in policy recommendations relating to the quality of' services and activities , in the areas of both academics and student life. The purpose of the new post of Dean of the Faculty is to have a position which is concerned with the total Arts and Sciences faculty and curriculum. Vice President and Provost Charles Glassick lauded the committee for a "thorough and useful report" and said that implementation of the recommendations would emphasize the "distinctive quality of undergraduate education at the University of Richmond ." He suggested that "as a consequence of the adoption of these new concepts, the university will offer an even better education-one which centers on the education of the whole person, preserves services for individual development, makes room for academic diversity and provides opportunities for creative living in a community with intellectual and social dimensions ."
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