Chap. 240.—An ACT to consolidate the State Teachers College at Radford with
the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute to
serve and to be known as “Radford College, Woman's Division of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute”, which shall be under the supervision, management and
control of the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical
College and Polytechnic Institute. [S 138]

Approved March 16, 1944

Be it enacted by the General -\ssembly of Virginia:
1. That the State Teachers College at Radtord be consolidated with
the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic In-
stitute, this hereafter to serve and be known as the “Virginia Polytechnic
Institute”, and the State Teachers College at Radford hereafter to serve
and be known as “Radford College, Woman’s Division of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute”.

First: So soon as this act shall become effective as hereinafter pro-
vided, The State Teachers College at Radford shall become combined
with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the manner hereinafter set
forth and shall serve and be known as “Radford College, Woman’s Divi-
sion of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute’, the name of which shall so
become, and the supervision, management and control of said State
Teachers College at Radford shall pass from the State Board of Educa-
tion and its successor or successors to and vest in the Board of Visitors
of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and the college as so consolidated
shall thereafter serve and be known as “Radford College, Woman’s Divi-
sion of Virginia Polytechnic Institute”. The Board of Visitors of the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute shall succeed to all the property, property
rights, contracts and agreements formerly controlled by and vested in
said State Board of Education, insofar as the same relate to the State
Teachers College at Radford.

Second: The Board of Visitors of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute
shall be charged with the management, care and preservation of all prop-
erty belonging to “Radford College, Woman’s Division of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute”, and with respect to said college, the Board of
Visitors of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute shall have the same powers
as to management, granting degrees, and with respect to the appointment
and removal of officers, instructors, agents, and other employees, and
the making of regulations which are now vested in them with respect
to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. The number of appointive mem-
bers of the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute shall
be increased by the addition’ of four women members to be appointed
as approved by law.

Third: Although consolidated with the Virginia Polytechnic In-
stitute under the same Board of Visitors, appropriations from the State
designated or intended to be made to ‘ ‘Radford College, Woman’s Divi-
sion of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute”, are to be expended by said
Board of Visitors of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute for the use of
said College; and the said Radford College, Woman's Division of the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute is to retain as far as practicable, its sepa-
rate institutional life. The President of the Virginia Polytechnic In-
stitute by virtue of his position shall become the Chancellor of Radford
College and its principal administrative officer. The chief local adminis-
trative officer of the said College shall be know as President of Radford
College, the Division of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and shall be
appointed and his salary and compensation fixed by The Board of Visi-
tors of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. The rector and Board of
Visitors of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute shall be charged with the
responsibility of approving departments or fields of instruction or
changes in such departments or fields to be offered by the said Radford
College, Woman’s Division of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, pro-
vided, however, that the work of teacher training in which the State
Teachers College at Radford has been engaged shall be continued as
part of any curriculum at said Radford College and as an integral part
of the State’s program of teacher training and provided, further, that
the same standards of instruction shall be maintained by said rector and
Board of Visitors in both the Woman’s Division and the Men’s Division
of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Within four years from the effective date of this act, Radford Col-
lege, Woman’s Division of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute shall serve
as the Woman’s Campus and all women undergraduate students of the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute shall be domiciled in living quarters on
the Woman’s Campus, except that this provision shall not apply to ma-
ture women students, twenty-one years of age and over, and to women
students living at the homes of their parents or legal guardians and pre-
fer to attend college as day students, and where the course of study pur-
sued by an undergraduate woman under twenty-one years of age is such
that to require her to reside on the campus of Radford College would,
in the opinion of the Board of Visitors, result in undue hardship, the
Board of Visitors by resolution may permit such student to reside on the
campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute; and the present campus at
Blacksburg shall serve as the Men’s Campus for students at the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and such men students shall be domiciled in living
quarters on said campus at Blacksburg if living at said school. During
the four year period above provided for any and all women students en-
rolled and living at Virginia Polytechnic Institute shall be permitted to
continue to attend Virginia Polytechnic Institute and to live on its cam-
pus until graduated or finishing her course, but no new women under-
graduate students shall be permitted to enter at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and to live on its campus at Blacksburg except in accordance
with the provisions of this act.

Fourth: The said Board of Visitors of the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, shall receive all appropriations, gifts, and donations, real or
personal, from any source whatever, the same by them to be held, in-
vested, distributed or expended solely for the particular institution desig-
nated by the donor, for the best use and benefit of the said Virginia Poly-
technic Institute or the said Radford College, Woman’s’ Division of the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, however and whenever so designated or
intended.

Fifth: It shall be the duty of the Board of Visitors of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute to consolidate the said Radford College, Woman's
Division of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, with the Virginia Poly-
technic Institute, in such manner and by such procedure as to incorporate
positive ideas and plans which will promote technical and vocational edu-
cational opportunities for white women in Virginia, by the integration of
the instructional staffs, the use of the laboratories, libraries and other
facilities, and the maintenance of the prestige, integrity and individual
status of the two institutions to be consolidated. The same or similar
standards of admission and graduation, whenever practicable, as obtain
for students in the said Virginia Polytechnic Institute, shall prevail at
Radford College, Woman’s Division of the Virginia Polytechnic Inst1-
tute. The charges for tuition, board, room and other fees at the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and at the said College, respectively, shall be fixed
for each institution as considered fit and proper by the Board of Visitors
of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, for residents and nonresidents of
the Commonwealth of Virginia. ,