Finals plans for South Halls renovations, proposed revisions to board bylaws and as-yet-unspecified legal matters will be among the Penn State trustees’ agenda items next week.
The university Board of Trustees is scheduled to meet Thursday and Friday at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, in Hershey. The gathering will mark one of the board’s six annual meetings.
Four of the yearly meetings are held at the University Park campus. The other two — in March and May, respectively — are held at elsewhere, most often Penn State Commonwealth Campuses, as the trustees visit other parts of the statewide university system.
The public portion of the board meetings next week will begin at 1:15 p.m. Friday in room 302 at the University Fitness and Conference Center, part of the Hershey facility. Planned are a variety of education presentations and reports from committees on campus environment, education policy, and finance and physical plant.
Among the board’s agenda items, according to an abbreviated document shared with the news media Friday:
- An update on the medical center itself.
- A proposed reorganization and renaming of the Department of African and African American Studies, in the College of the Liberal Arts. The new name would be the Department of African American Studies.
- A planned replacement of retractable seating at the Bryce Jordan Center.
- Reconstruction of McKean Road at University Park.
- Energy-conservation measures at the HUB at University Park.
- The proposed appointment of an architect for the Mueller and Whitmore laboratory renovations at University Park.
- Proposed final plans — and authorization to award contracts — for a South Halls addition and renovations at University Park.
- A report on the status of the university’s state-funding request for 2012-13.
- Legal matters. (The matters are not specifically delineated in the agenda provided to the news media.)
- Proposed revisions to board bylaws and standing orders. (The revisions are not specifically delineated in the agenda provided to the news media.)
- Election of members of the board’s executive committee.
- Announcements by board Chairwoman Karen Peetz and remarks by university President Rodney Erickson.
Members of the general public are welcome at the public portions of Penn State board meetings, though they are not permitted to speak before the board in open session.
StateCollege.com will provide immediate online updates from Hershey on Friday. Penn State itself also may provide a live online stream from the meeting.
Additional details will be posted as they become available.
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