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Minutes of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, 13 July 1827

Minutes of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia

Friday, July 13. [1827]

The Rector still confined to his bed. The board met, present James Monroe, George Loyall, John H. Cocke, Joseph C. Cabell and Chapman Johnson.

The board had a conference with Th. Jefferson Randolph on the subject of the loan to the University proposed by him as trustee to his mother, Mrs Martha Randolph.

They then attended the examination; on their return from which, they commenced reading the minutes of the Faculty proceedings.

A claim was presented to the board from the Mutual assurance company, amounting to $22.62. A notice was received from James Oldham that he would on the second Monday in August, proceed to take certain depositions relating to a suit between himself and the University.

Resolved that it shall be the duty of the chairman of the faculty to prepare and lay before the Visitors, the annual consolidated report founded on the weekly class Reports; and the said consolidated Report shall be divided into three distinct and separate parts, as follows:

Part I A concise and clear statement of the heads of the lectures or subjects of instruction delivered or taught by each of the Professors during the preceding course.

Part II. a statement of 1. The number of times which any professor shall have failed to lecture on the regular days appointed for his lectures. 2 The number of times which any professor shall have failed to examine his class on the days appointed for such examination. 3. The average time occupied by each professor in the delivery of his lectures. 4. The average time occupied by each professor in the examination of his classes. 5. The number of times that each Professor shall have failed promptly to make his weekly class report, as required by the enactments.

Part III A statement of the number of times which the students may have been absent from lecture or examination; and of their different degrees of attention and proficiency in their respective classes, exhibited in the following tabular form.

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Template for University of Virginia faculty to document student progress.

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