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This series includes the minutes and agendas from the Board of Visitors' meetings and is arranged in chronological order by date of meeting. Agendas list business to be discussed and resolutions to be approved. Agendas include supporting documents for each resolution. Minutes reflect business transacted at meetings, but are not verbatim transcripts. Agendas and minutes are filed together for each meeting. The series consists of copies as well as the official bound volumes of minutes. Agendas, minutes, and reports of the committees of the Board of Visitors are present. Minutes can also be found in Series 3: Correspondence and Series 4, Subseries 2: Rector's Papers, Robert Harvey Chappell Jr. Microfilm copies of minutes from 1860-1980 are available for researchers to use. The material listed as being found in Boxes 2-21 are bound volumes of the official Executive Committee and regular Board of Visitors meeting minutes. Boxes 22-48, 69-are paper copies of minutes and committee reports of the Board of Visitors from 1921 to the present. Boxes 49-68 are duplicate copies of minutes and are stored off-site. From 2002 to the present, committee agendas and minutes are in the same folder as the general meeting minutes and agenda. Acc. 2011.524 contains committee agendas and minutes for meetings of the Board of Visitors from the September 2009 to the April 2011 meetings. September 2011 Creative Adaptation Fund.

This series consists of the correspondence of the Board of Visitors. Included in the series are copies of minutes of Board of Visitors meetings, correspondence about the meetings, and copies of reports presented at the meetings. Some of the topics the correspondence explores include the financial situation of the College, construction and renovation of buildings on campus, and recommendations for the successor of Julian A. C. Chandler. The series also includes two letters written by former U. S. President John Tyler while he was Rector of the Board of Visitors, as well as a profile of the members of the 1987 Board of Visitors. Two student discipline cases are included, but are closed until 2018 due to their confidentiality. The series is arranged alphabetically by subject. Boxes 6-7 contain correspondence regarding the Wren Cross in 2007 and the appointment of W. Taylor Reveley as the next William and Mary President in September 2008. These boxes are closed until 2018 October.

This series consists of reports, by-laws, procedures, and other publications produced by or presented to the Board of Visitors. Some of the publications in the series include the 1960 administrative organization of William and Mary to include Richard Bland and Christopher Newport College, a study of the social life of women at southern colleges, various versions of the by-laws of the Board of Visitors, and a copy of the rules and regulations for the president of the College from 1905. Also included is a bound volume containing faculty reports to the Board of Visitors, bursar's reports about capital owned by the college, and lists of land owned in King William and Sussex Counties. The faculty reports have been microfilmed and are available in the SCRC on the same reel as the matriculation books.

This series consists of reel-to-reel audiotapes of Board of Visitors meetings. Preservation concerns may limit access to the original recordings requiring researchers to use copies in another format. The series is arranged chronologically.