Editing College of William & Mary (section)

==Organization and administration==
{{See also|List of presidents of the College of William & Mary|Chancellor of the College of William & Mary}}
[[File:Katherine-Anandi-Rowe.jpg|thumb|[[Katherine Rowe]] was named the [[List of presidents of the College of William & Mary|twenty-eighth president]] of William & Mary in 2018.]]
The Board of Visitors is a corporation established by the [[General Assembly of Virginia]] to govern and supervise the operation of the College of William & Mary and of [[Richard Bland College]].<ref name="FH">{{cite web |url=http://www.wm.edu/about/administration/provost/documents/facultyhandbookAugust2008.pdf |title=Faculty Handbook |year=2008 |access-date=December 21, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207190242/http://www.wm.edu/about/administration/provost/documents/facultyhandbookAugust2008.pdf |archive-date=February 7, 2009}}</ref> The corporation is composed of 17 members appointed by the [[Governor of Virginia]], based upon the recommendations made by the Society of the Alumni, to a maximum of two successive four-year terms. The Board elects a Rector, Vice-Rector, and Secretary, and the Board meets four times annually.<ref name="FH"/> The Board appoints a president, related administrative officers, and an honorary chancellor, approving degrees, admission policies, departments, and schools and executing the fiduciary duties of supervising the college's property and finances.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wm.edu/about/administration/bov/members/index.php |title=Members of the Board |publisher=Board of Visitors, The College of William & Mary |access-date=December 21, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218083703/http://www.wm.edu/about/administration/bov/members/index.php |archive-date=February 18, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Chancellor of the College of William & Mary]] is largely ceremonial. Until 1776, the position was held by an English subject, usually the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] or the [[Bishop of London]], who served as the college's advocate to the Crown, while a colonial President oversaw the day-to-day activities of the Williamsburg campus. Following the Revolutionary War, General [[George Washington]] was appointed as the first American chancellor; later, United States President [[John Tyler]] held the post. The college has recently had several distinguished chancellors: former [[Chief Justice of the United States]] [[Warren E. Burger]] (1986–1993), former [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]] [[Margaret Thatcher]] (1993–2000), former [[United States Secretary of State|U.S. Secretary of State]] [[Henry Kissinger]] (2000–2005), and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice [[Sandra Day O'Connor]] (2005–2012).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wm.edu/about/administration/chancellor/duties/index.php |title=Duties and History, Chancellor |publisher=College of William & Mary |access-date=December 21, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218084552/http://www.wm.edu/about/administration/chancellor/duties/index.php |archive-date=February 18, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> Former U.S. Secretary of Defense [[Robert M. Gates]], himself an alumnus of the college, succeeded O'Connor in February 2012.<ref name=Ukman2011>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |title=Gates takes chancellor's post at William and Mary |date=September 6, 2011 |first=Jason |last=Ukman |access-date=September 6, 2011 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/gates-takes-chancellors-post-at-william-and-mary/2011/09/06/gIQA3jKl6J_blog.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113080236/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/gates-takes-chancellors-post-at-william-and-mary/2011/09/06/gIQA3jKl6J_blog.html |archive-date=November 13, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Board of Visitors delegates to a president the operating responsibility and accountability for the college's administrative, fiscal, and academic performance, as well as representing the college on public occasions such as conferral of degrees.<ref name="FH"/> [[W. Taylor Reveley III]], 27th President of the college, served from 2008 to 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wm.edu/about/administration/president/biography/index.php |title=W. Taylor Reveley, President |publisher=College of William & Mary |access-date=December 21, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302063956/http://www.wm.edu/about/administration/president/biography/index.php |archive-date=March 2, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>  In February 2018, The Board of Visitors unanimously elected [[Katherine Rowe|Katherine A. Rowe]] as Reveley's successor. Rowe is the first female president to serve the college since its founding.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2018/28th.php |title=William & Mary announces Katherine Rowe as 28th President |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=February 20, 2018 |publisher=William & Mary News Archive |access-date=September 1, 2022}}</ref>

Faculty members are organized into separate faculties of the Faculty of Arts and Science as well as those for the respective schools of [[Mason School of Business|Business]], [[The College of William & Mary School of Education|Education]], [[William & Mary Law School|Law]], and [[Virginia Institute of Marine Science]].<ref name="FH"/> Each faculty is presided over by a dean, who reports to the provost, and governs itself through separate by-laws approved by the Board of Visitors. The faculty is also represented by a faculty assembly advising the president and provost.<ref name="FH"/>

The [[Royal Hospital School]], an independent boarding school in the United Kingdom, is a sister institution.<ref>{{cite web|title=Greenwich Hospital School: A Brief History of The Royal Hospital School|publisher=Mariners|date=March 5, 2003|url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/GreenwichRoyal.html|access-date=February 9, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210033352/http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/GreenwichRoyal.html|archive-date=February 10, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>