A. The board shall appoint all teachers, staff members, and agents, fix their salaries, and prescribe their duties.
B. The board shall generally direct the affairs and business of the University.
C. The board may confer degrees, including honorary degrees.
D. The board may take, hold, receive, and enjoy any gift, grant, devise, or bequest to the University or its predecessors for the uses and purposes designated by the donor, or if not so designated, for the general purposes of the corporation, whether given directly or indirectly, and accept, execute, and administer any trust in which it may have an interest under the terms of the instrument creating the trust.
1968, c. 93, §§ 23-50.8, 23-50.10; 23-50.12; 2016, c. 588.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 23.1 - Institutions of Higher Education; Other Educational and Cultural Institutions
Chapter 23 - Virginia Commonwealth University
§ 23.1-2300. Corporate name; name of the University
§ 23.1-2304. Principal office; meetings; officers; committees
§ 23.1-2305. Powers and duties
§ 23.1-2306. Investment of endowment funds, endowment income, etc.
§ 23.1-2307. Process or notice
§ 23.1-2308. The Medical College of Virginia, Health Sciences Schools of the University
§ 23.1-2309. Operations of Medical Center
§ 23.1-2311. Virginia Center on Aging
§ 23.1-2312. Establishment of a branch campus in the State of Qatar