Wednesday, Sept. 24 to Friday, Sept. 26, the College of William and Mary’s Board of Visitors will convene for the first time in the 2025-26 academic year in Blow Memorial Hall to discuss strategic planning, the campus comprehensive plan and new projects.
All of the Board’s eight committees will resume their business from the April meeting, while also incorporating takeaways from the summer retreat held at the Washington Center in July, which analyzed the evolving higher education policy landscape and suggested plans for future infrastructural development.
Among the Board’s goals for the 2025-26 academic year is the expansion of curriculum offerings related to artificial intelligence under the supervision of the newly opened School of Computer, Data Science and Physics. Inaugural CDSP School Dean Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt ’84, M.A. ’86, who launched an interdisciplinary AI minor this fall, hopes to soon offer a B.A. in Artificial Intelligence and a B.S. in Applied Artificial Intelligence.
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.
Thursday morning, the Committee on Administration, Buildings, and Grounds, Committee on Academic Affairs, Committee on Student Experience and Committee on Athletics will meet. After a board-wide lunch with President Katherine Rowe’s cabinet, members of the Committee on Institutional Advancement and the Committee on Audit, Risk, Compliance will return to Blow Memorial Hall for their meetings.
Friday morning, the Board will conclude its quarterly session with the Committee on Financial Affairs, followed by a full board meeting. During this session, student body president Zoe Wang ’26 is slated to deliver an address on student life. Rowe will also formally address the Board to conclude the session.
