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Academics
A&S faculty and staff spent the year supporting, teaching, mentoring, inspiring and exhorting a student body that in spring 2023 numbered 6,723 undergraduates (the largest ever) and 362 graduates. Faculty worked together to prepare approximately 1,500 undergraduates and 127 graduates to walk at Commencement.
Faculty continued doing high-quality research, winning external grants, and building new collaborations across the globe and within W&M. We allocated around $250,000 internally this year to support faculty research and events via the Faculty Grants Fund.
In addition, 202 faculty-generated proposals that requested $72 million in support were submitted to external funding agencies. During the same period, new awards and yearly increments to existing awards totaled $32 million; of this amount, $522,000 came in the form of 10 external student and faculty fellowships.
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Advancement
Support from A&S donors increased significantly in 2022-2023, and we are grateful for our strong and ever-growing community of donors who made the following achievements possible:
- $6.03 million in gifts from 5,555 donors
- 20 new funds created this fiscal year
- 4,220 gifts under $250 for a total of $307,426
One Tribe One Day in April broke many records for A&S. Our entire community came together to make it a successful day, with almost 1,900 donors and $383,000 raised in support of our students and faculty across the departments and programs.
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Applied Learning
The A&S hub for mentored research, applied learning and internships, The Charles Center, has been working to identify and remove barriers to student access to internships and other applied learning opportunities. In collaboration with A&S faculty and numerous offices across campus, they created two pilot internship courses for summer 2023. These courses offer students a path to receive both academic credit and funding for internships and enable tracking of student internship participation.
The Charles Center supported 41 internships in summer 2023, including 22 Freeman Intern Fellowships in Asia, 11 Woody interns in Museum Studies, 7 City Research Scholars (2 interns with the City of Williamsburg and 5 interns with area nonprofits), and 1 Grimsley Journalism Fellow.
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Arts at W&M
William & Mary's new Arts Quarter, opening Fall 2023, includes the new Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall (Theatre & Dance) and new Music Arts Center. This long-anticipated opening of the beautiful new space kicks off a year-long celebration of our talented and creative faculty, alumni and students, Year of the Arts at William & Mary.
We are grateful to the members of the Arts Quarter Inaugural Planning Group and its successor, the Arts Quarter Working Group, for the energy and excitement with which they have approached the occasionally daunting task of planning for staffing, operations and performance schedules.
Music, dance, theatre, art, art history, creative writing, film studies and more combine, intersect, and complement each other in a vibrant and thriving arts community at William & Mary. We look forward to the public dedication of the new Arts Quarter at Homecoming 2023.
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Community & Belonging
During the 2022-2023 year, our new Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) launched two new programs:
- Fall 2022: Insights from Within (IfW), an internally focused initiative that fosters conversations led by members of our community and/or A&S alumni to further DEI goals.
- Spring 2023: A&S DEI Spring Speaker Series, which brings transformational organizations and/or speakers to our community with the goal of exploring shared values around DEI.
A goal of A&S is to continue to reflect our community value of belonging by cultivating the diversity of faculty and staff. In support of faculty hiring, the Dean’s office collaborated closely with our University Human Resources partner to provide vice-deans, chairs, directors, and search committee chairs with EEO data and recruitment support for all tenured or tenure-eligible searches. Anchored by targeted interventions described in the Faculty Hiring Pilot (i.e., implicit bias training and evaluation of inclusive teaching expertise for prospective hires) and, the enthusiastic support of our faculty community, these efforts resulted in an exceptionally diverse group of new faculty hires. Of full-time faculty hires, 52.6% identified as people of color (includes American Indian, Asian, Black or African American, Hispanic) and 57.9% identified as female.
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Computing, Data & Applied Science Initiative
2022-23 saw progress on the computing, data and applied sciences initiative. In December, the three leaders of computer science, data science and applied science presented a draft proposal for a new school for discussion and feedback. Our colleagues in physics have since expressed interest in joining a potential new unit. In January 2023, Provost Agouris named a formal steering committee, co-chaired by the Dean of A&S Suzanne Raitt and Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs David Yalof, to explore possible models for a new academic entity and present her with an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of each.
That analysis was submitted and shared by the Provost with the W&M community in Summer 2023.
The Provost will visit the first A&S faculty meeting in the fall to share preliminary thoughts and will work with Faculty Assembly throughout the fall to develop a concrete plan of action.
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Graduate Programs
The past academic year has been a time of change and growth for Graduate A&S. The A&S faculty, with the approval of the Provost and President, allowed each graduate program to determine its own Graduate Record Exam (GRE) requirements. All subsequently voted to eliminate it, with a majority allowing the optional submission of scores. This aligns William & Mary with the growing number of institutions that do not require the GRE for admission. Graduate A&S also saw the birth of a new doctoral program in Data Science, currently housed within the Applied Science Department. The first cohort of Data Science doctoral students will matriculate in fall 2023.
The Graduate Research Symposium returned this year with a new collaborative twist, showcasing undergraduate Honors projects alongside the work of graduate students. The inaugural Graduate & Honors Research Symposium (GHRS) brought together more than 160 emerging scholars at W&M.
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Vision 2026 and A&S
A&S undertook three specific initiatives as our contribution to Vision 2026: establish an A&S Graduate Center; create an A&S Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences hub; and highlight the important role of A&S in advancing the liberal arts mission of W&M. Of these three, the final one has dominated our work this year, as our new Director of Communications works on branding, communications, and all the different ways to tell the story of A&S. The Graduate Center is seeking new space; and plans for the Humanities hub are under way.
Explore this Report
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A&S at a Glance
A snapshot of Arts & Sciences at William & Mary
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22-23 Highlights
Overview of an exciting year for Arts & Sciences
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Stories of Impact
Stories of A&S alumni, students and faculty
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