Student & Faculty Representatives

2023-2024

Student Representatives

Sydney E. Thayer
Student Assembly President
William & Mary

Kylie McCoy
Richard Bland College

Faculty Representatives

David S. Armstrong
Chancellor Professor, Physics
William & Mary

Daniel Franke
Associate Professor, History
Richard Bland College

Annually the Rector shall appoint the President of the Student Assembly of William & Mary to the position of a non-voting, advisory representative on the Board of Visitors. Annually the Rector, in consultation with the Committee on Academic Affairs, shall appoint a full-time faculty member from among the former presidents of the William & Mary Faculty Assembly to the position of a non-voting, advisory representative on the Board of Visitors. Annually the Rector shall appoint a student and full-time faculty member from Richard Bland College nominated by the College President to the position of non-voting, advisory representatives. Faculty members from William & Mary and Richard Bland College shall be eligible to serve two consecutive one-year terms.

The terms of office of each non-voting, advisory representative shall begin on the day following Commencement at each institution and will extend through the following year's Commencement. Each non-voting, advisory representative will sit with the Board of Visitors during the open sessions of those committee meetings and full meetings of the Board which deal with matters pertaining to William & Mary or Richard Bland College, respectively. In the event a student or faculty representative is not able to complete the term, the Rector, acting in concert with the appropriate institution's President, will appoint a replacement.