Discuss UWF request to extend Board Leadership through presidential search; Discuss Board of Trustees Powers and Duties Regulation; Discuss Committee Workplan; Review Workplans on Focused Missions, Baccalaureate Degrees, Appropriate and Predictable ...

 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

The Trustee Nomination and Board Procedures Committee, the Strategic Planning and Academic and System Oversight Committee and the Student Affairs and Campus Life Committee, of the Board of Governors, State University System announces a public meeting to which all persons are invited.

DATE AND TIME: November 20, 2008, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 Noon

PLACE: Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center, 505 W. Pensacola St., Tallahassee, FL

GENERAL SUBJECT MATTER TO BE CONSIDERED: Discuss UWF request to extend Board Leadership through presidential search; Discuss Board of Trustees Powers and Duties Regulation; Discuss Committee Workplan; Review Workplans on Focused Missions, Baccalaureate Degrees, Appropriate and Predictable Funding, Economic Development, Medical Education, and Academic Programs Approval; Review University and System Strategic Priorities including areas of programmatic strategic emphasis and SUS Enrollment Plans; Review Proposals for new degree programs: FAU PhD, Geoscience; FSU Doctor of Nursing Practice; USF PhD, History; USF PhD, Government; USF PhD, Sociology; and USF Doctor of Pharmacy; Termination of the FIU PhD, Industrial and Systems Engineering; Review Proposed BOG Regulations: 6.017, Criteria for Award of the Baccalaureate Degree; 3.006, Accreditation; 3.004, Honorary Degrees; 3.009, Student Financial Aid; 6.009, Admission of International Students to SUS Institutions; 6.010, Student Affairs Administration; 6.0115, Observance of Religious Holidays; 6.018, Substitution or Modification of Requirements for Program Admission, Undergraduate Transfer, and for Graduation by Students with Disabilities; 6.022, Veterans Benefits - Inmate Students; and 10.004, Educational Research Centers for Child Development; Report on SUS Council for Student Affairs; and Review of Student Affairs Committee Work Plan.

A copy of the agenda may be obtained by contacting: Mikey Bestebreurtje, Corporate Secretary, Board of Governors, 1614 Turlington Building, 325 W. Gaines St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0400.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this workshop/meeting is asked to advise the agency at least 7 days before the workshop/meeting by contacting: Office of Access and Equity, DOE at [phone], Voice. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the agency using the Florida Relay Service, 1(800)955-8771 (TDD) or 1(800)955-8770 (Voice).

If any person decides to appeal any decision made by the Board with respect to any matter considered at this meeting or hearing, he/she will need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceeding is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence from which the appeal is to be issued.

For more information, you may contact: Mikey Bestebreurtje, Corporate Secretary, Board of Governors, 1614 Turlington Building, 325 W. Gaines St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0400.