About Us

The founders of the Should Nichol be Renewed (SNBR) website are a diverse group of alumni and students who share a common commitment to the heritage of The College of William and Mary as well as to the advocacy of excellence in higher education.

Events occurring on the watch of President Gene Ray Nichol have caused serious alarm and have led to the creation of this site to objectively inform all friends of W&M. MORE:

Board of Visitors Announces Review of Nichol's Contract

Statement from Board | Statement from Nichol | SNBR Press Release

Nichol's Contract (excerpts) - Part 1 | Part 2

Recent Features

WIlliam and Mary campus newspaper: DUMP NICHOL

Letter to the Board of Visitors: 1980 Alumna speaks out

Letter to the Board of Visitors: Williamsburg resident Bob Warren weighs in

Letter to the Editor: Cliff Francis, Class of 1948, writes to the Daily Press

Letter to the editor: WIlliamsburg area resident Tommy Dix in the Virginia Gazette

Letter from former Board of Visitors member: Linda Skladany, '66, says Nichol "'rebranded the College"

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LATEST NEWS...
	Making the Grade? Under Nichol, W&M is struggling to keep up with peer schools. Includes Charts of U.S. News and World Report Data
	Lagging behind: Growth Rate in Freshman Applications Falls Short under Nichol
	UPDATED AGAIN! Dissenting Philosophy Chair Removed Department in "Receivership"
	Political Firing? Respected Higher Education Publication openly asks about linkage between opposition to Nichol and the firing of Philosophy Department Head

MORE NEWS...
	Daily Press unofficial poll results
	Read the Press Release (June 11)

More quotes...

Rector Susan Magill and President Gene Nichol

"He [Nichol] agreed to check his politics at the fence of the Wren Building"
Rector Susan A. Magill, referring to the campus landmark.
Richmond Times-Dispatch, City Edition, Monday, September 19, 2005

"I'm not the kind of person who checks his opinions or his pen at the campus wall. I never have been, and they know that...."
Gene Nichol, interview Q&A, Friday, July 1, 2005
Read the entire interview (PDF Format)

Professor of History Emeritus George Strong

Anyone whose personal priorities self evidently so divides the college community, to say nothing of the community at large, is not the person to head a college with a grand tradition in the unfettered pursuit of the Liberal Arts.  Our college community merits a leader dedicated above everything to work to bring together its disparate parts  into a proud and united community in common pursuit of academic excellence. Thereby this agenda  requires a leader who is willing to work to enhance general support for the College of William and Mary. More especially he must work   to increase its endowment. The present leader has patently demonstrated his incapacity to follow and achieve such an agenda within the accepted parameters of the Liberal Arts and further, has shown that he has not the slightest understanding what such a course of action demands.

George Strong is William and Mary Professor of History Emeritus. Strong received his PhD from North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1969. His area of specialization is modern Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire, social and intellectual. Professor Strong retired from the college in June of 2003 after 36 years of service in the College's classrooms.

Wall Street Journal

In an editorial about academic reform movements at Dartmouth and William and Mary, including this Web site, the Journal writes:

"Colleges and universities have largely brought this stakeholder activism on themselves -- when they decided to become instruments of fashionable politics instead of repositories of knowledge."
June 16, 2007

Does this man measure up to those before him?