Also, Pres. Carrier fired mens basketball coach Lefty Drisell....................the same famous Lefty who left UMD b/c of the Lynn Bias scandal................all so odd..............


In 1966, by action of the Virginia General Assembly, the university became a coeducational institution. Ronald E. Carrier, JMU's fourth president, headed the institution from 1971 to 1998. During Carrier's administration, student enrollment and the number of faculty and staff tripled, doctoral programs were authorized, more than twenty major campus buildings were constructed and the university was recognized repeatedly by national publications as one of the finest institutions of its type in America. Carrier Library is named after him.^[4]