Wednesday, Nov. 19 to Friday, Nov. 21, the College of William and Mary’s Board of Visitors will convene for its second meeting of the 2025-26 academic year in Blow Memorial Hall. All of the Board’s eight committees are scheduled to meet to follow up on business from September, with some proposing new resolutions. The Board will also hold special meetings led by the Committee on Academic Affairs to discuss plans for the College of Arts and Sciences, the Law School, the Batten School of Coastal and Marine Sciences, the School of Education, the School of Business and the School of Computing, Data Sciences and Physics.
In line with the College’s goal to grow curriculum offerings related to artificial intelligence, the Board will vote on a resolution to create a new Bachelor of Arts in Applied Artificial Intelligence. The move will expand on the artificial intelligence concentration currently housed in the Department of Data Science.
The session will begin Wednesday afternoon with the Subcommittee on Compensation and the Executive Committee. The Board will later meet for dinner hosted by Rector Charles E. Poston J.D. ’74, P ’02, ’06 at the Raymond A. Mason School of Business.
Thursday morning, the Committee on Academic Affairs will deliver opening remarks before the College’s major schools meet in succession for the rest of the day as part of the annual omnibus session. The Board will hold a lunch at Oak Hall and conduct a residence tour of the West Woods complex, which opened last October, discussing initial obstacles with the buildings such as fire alarms and the future of the Global Village.
Friday morning, the Board’s remaining committees — Audit, Risk and Compliance and Financial Affairs — are scheduled to meet before the full Board reconvenes to vote on the resolutions discussed in the days prior.
