MINUTES OF THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY -- IUB, MAY 5, 2006

Attendees: Karen Adams, Marc Beatty, Franklin Breckenridge, Nicole Brooks, Kevin Brown, Trevor Brown, Bonnie Brownlee, Ian G. Bruton, Rachelle Bundy, Ann Claussen, Dick Claussen, Kathrine Claussen, Stew Cobine, Roland Cote, Jack Dahl, Linda Delunas, Jim Donges, Garland Ellmore, Pam Faulkner, Raymond Fletcher, J T. Forbes, Michael Ford, Gerardo Gonzalez, Stuart Green, John Grew, Lehsa Griebel, Betsy Henke, Steve Hinnefeld, David Hummons, Linda Hunt, Steve Keucher, Kelly Kish, Julie Knost, Andrew Lauck, Art Lindeman, Larry MacIntyre, Dick McKaig, Sara McNabb, Kathleen McNeely, Bob Meadows, Ted Miller, Susan Moke, Bart Ng, Bill O’Donnell, John Paflas, Terry Radke, Edwardo Rhodes, Dan Rives, Marsha Roberts, Vickie Roberts, Anna Rominger, Paul Rowher, Loren Ruhlman, Jeanne Sept, Alex Shortle, Paul Sullivan, Tom Swafford, Jaarad W. Taylor, Rahsaan Taylor, Barry Thomas, Maynard Thompson, Roger Thompson, Brad Wheeler, Jeff Wuslich, William Yost

1. Action Item: Approval is requested for the minutes of April 7, 2006, which include the Administrative Action Report of March 1, 2006.

2. Action Item: Approval is requested for the appointment of John K. Banks to a partial three-year term on the Riley Children’s Foundation Board of Governors, beginning May 4, 2006, and concluding November 19, 2008.

3. Action Item: Approval is requested to change the venues for the following two Board of Trustees meetings: March 1-2, 2007, from IU Bloomington to IUPUI, and March 6-7, 2008, from IU Bloomington to IUPUI.

Robin Gress: This will enable the board to be on the Bloomington campus three times a year, the Indianapolis campus three times a year and the regional campuses three times a year.

President Herbert: Thank you very much President Ferguson. My report this morning will be relatively short.

I would like to begin by acknowledging the great loss that the Indiana University family experienced two weeks ago when we received news of a tragic plane crash that took the lives of five very talented students in the IU Jacobs School of Music. I know that the members of this board join me in extending our deepest sympathies to the families and also to close friends of these very special young people.

The IU family mourned this lost in many ways immediately following the announcement of the tragedy. Professors and students from the Jacobs School of Music gathered in practice rooms to console themselves by playing music that the five very promising young musicians had loved. The students were memorialized at concerts on this campus and at other campuses across the Midwest. These concerts will continue, and this fall they will even extend to Europe at a special concert is being held in honor of one of our students at the Royal College of Music in London.

One of the most moving expressions of grief has been a blog posted on a website called, “In Memoriam,” which was constructed by the Jacobs staff. The site provides information about the students and enables individuals to share memories and appreciation and also to express condolences to the students’ families and friends. I’d like to share with you one very brief excerpt from one of the entries on this site. This is what the writer said in describing the students, “So amazing, so talented so loved, so missed.” Indeed they were and are.

I would also note that three of these graduate students would have been marching on Saturday. So, as we celebrate the accomplishments of our graduates during Commencement we also will keep in mind these very special young people who had such rare talent and left us far too soon.

This week we received some much happier news. One of the most respected publications in the world of business has just issued its first-ever comprehensive ranking of the nation’s top 50 undergraduate business programs. I’m very proud to report to the board that IU’s excellence in this area has been affirmed by the magazine Business Week. The magazine placed the Kelley School’s undergraduate programs fourth in the nation among public universities and 10th overall. The new ranking identifies IU as being in the top two percent of nationally accredited undergraduate programs.

I know that’s something this board is particularly excited about. The magazine has praised the Kelley School’s innovative core curriculum, its 98% graduation rate, the school’s strong commitment to community volunteer service, and also its 85% job placement rate. Business Week also pointed out that not only is a degree from the Kelley School an indication of a strong commitment to excellence, but it also is an outstanding value with an annual instate cost of approximately $7,000. The magazine says the Kelley program is the second-best value financially of any school it ranked in the top 10, and I want to put all this in perspective. The Kelley program was one of three undergraduate schools in Indiana that Business Week ranked. University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business was ranked 3rd in the survey and Purdue University’s Krannert School of Business was ranked 45th. Last year US News and World Report ranked the undergraduate program 6th among public universities and 11th overall. We’re very proud of the outstanding work that’s being done by the dean of the Kelley School and its faculty, and I want to congratulate them on the outstanding job that they’ve done.

I also would like to acknowledge this year’s winner of IU’s Prestigious Wells Award. She’s with us here this morning. Let me just say a little bit about her because I am so proud of her accomplishments. During her career as an IU student, Kathleen Claussen -- everyone calls her Katie -- has shown a commitment to excellence and a desire to serve others that characterize the life of Herman B. Wells. Early last month Provost McRobbie hosted a dinner for her family, friends and mentors in which he formally presented this award to her and I’d like to share with you a few sentences from his remarks that evening because I think it captures so well our feeling of pride about her.

“Each year,” he said, “we honor one graduating senior in Dr. Wells’ name with no expectation that any award recipient could possibly live up to his legacy but with every hope that the Wells Award winner possess at least some of his intelligence, generosity and effectiveness. This year the committee had an unusually easy task although IU is blessed with dozens of remarkable seniors and at least hundreds and perhaps thousands who will make a significant mark on the world one stands out.”

We have every confidence that Katie Claussen will make a mark in the world. She is both a Wells Scholar and a Mitchell Scholar. She took advantage of IU’s strong individualized major program and created a major in Comparative Social Policy and Ideology. She paired this concentration with a major in Spanish. This double major has enabled her to pursue her deep interests in Latin America, citizenship and participatory democracy. She’s earned all A or A+’s throughout her four years at IU. She has secured research grants, has had her work published and has participated in several national and international conferences. She also has worked part time as an advocate for community engagement in the service learning office. After the tsunami in December 2004 she organized a video conference for students at several universities in this country and in Britain. This video conference enabled her and her peers to talk with victims of the tsunami as well as disaster experts. She helped to create an organization called Conversations about Service and Engagement that has involved from more than 15 countries in discussion concerning the principles of service and democracy. This semester Katie designed a course on the topic of citizenship which she’s been teaching through the Hutton Honors College. That course has involved faculty from a number of different disciplines. She also coordinated a successful conference on global citizenship this semester sharing her activism outside the classroom.

Her professors describe Katie as tireless in her commitment to civic engagement and as someone who has a deep commitment to America’s youth and a vision for the role these young people can play in a democratic society. Her fellow students describe her as nothing short of inspiring. She’s here this morning to share with us a few comments about here education at IU and here plans for the future. Again, I am so very proud of her and as you can tell just from the brief summary description of her activities she truly is one of the very best Indiana University has produced.

Kathleen Claussen: Thank you so much President Herbert and thank you to the board. It’s really an honor to be here and to be asked to share a few words with you today.

As I come to the end of my time in Bloomington I’ve had the opportunity to reflect a bit on the wealth of experiences that IU has provided for me and also to try to project those experiences to a larger conception of how I might contribute to a global good if you will. Certainly this university has made it possible for me to pursue my interests with academic rigor, everything from studying civil society in Kosovo last summer to examining migration policies in the very different though equally hot location of Trinidad and Tobago. It’s really been a pleasure and honor to be here.

I will continue to study many of these questions in my graduate school studies. Next year I will be in Northern Ireland where I will be looking at international politics and conflict resolution. I’m particularly interested in how individuals in Northern Ireland conceive of their identities and how they relate those to a concept of European citizenship. Later I’d like to specifically examine how the citizens of Europe have come to shape a common vision for the future and how that might be extrapolated to a larger conception for the world over.

But, back to IU, I never had the privilege of knowing Herman Wells personally though I’ve come to have the utmost respect for his legacy certainly at this institution. A few years ago he gave a speech in which he instructed citizens, instructed new university presidents to be good educational citizens that is locally, nationally and internationally. More recently of course President Herbert has rearticulated that vision by saying that the public university must prepare young adults for their obligations as citizens of the world.

In one of the programs that I’ve had the opportunity to work with is as he mentioned the Conversations about Service and Engagement Program. The CASE international program that I hope achieves that goal. You gave the example, sir, of the conversation we had with students around the world about the tsunami. More recently a few weeks ago we had the chance to sit down with students in Cairo, Egypt and Copenhagen, Denmark to compare our differing reactions to the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. After two hours of intense dialogue, debate and thoughtful questioning we’ve reached a collective understanding that was absent at the start of our conversation and even though those students were half way around the world through the video conferencing technology it was as though they were right there in the room with us and this is just one of the ways I’ve seen IU realize its commitment to that very vision.

Likewise it’s not just the international initiatives that I’ve been a part of that have shaped my life path while at IU. Certainly the support given by the Hutton Honors College in support of my proposal to teach the course on citizenship this semester was overwhelming and I cannot overemphasize how important civic engagement and service learning have been while I’ve been in Bloomington. I could tell you many stories about how that’s had an impact on me, but I hope you’ll entertain just a moment where I can share with you excerpts from the manual my students produced. This is a publication that they put together where they compared and related their service work in the Bloomington community to the intellectual text we were using in the classroom, and I can tell you I’ve never seen more passion about their writing when they were putting together this service with their intellectual endeavors.

So, just a brief excerpt if you will. One writes, “Service can be fun and rewarding. That’s just one of the basic things I learned this semester and wish that more people would realize. It’s one’s chance to strengthen the community and give back while applying the theories we were reading about here. What would I tell other students? Find a place where you feel you can make a connection. Where you can move outside your own world and become a lasting part of someone else’s. This may sound like some lofty advice, but I think that it is more attainable than one can think. You do not have to set out to change the world through your service. Changing the life of one individual can mean a lot more.”

And other writes, “I knew about homelessness before this experience, but there is no way to know how it actually impacts people unless you are right there with them. I was struck by the variety of people who come to the shelter, the multitude of hardships they endure and there enduring spirits. Seeing all sides of how the shelter operates has really given me a new perspective on the Bloomington community as well as myself.”

Undoubtedly local engagement is a part of being a global citizen. I cannot leave this campus without the reassurance that this institution will continue to be a leader as it has been in service learning and civic engagement programming both through the Advocates for Community Engagement Program in the Dean of Faculties as well as the new exciting and innovative Civic Engagement web portal. With the proper support these can be the vehicles through which other students can see what I’ve seen and do what I’ve done and, like my students, they can increase and enhance their skills by, in a true spirit of the public university and that is in collaboration with and in cooperation with the local community.

Well, I don’t want to take up too much of your time, but just let me convey to you that IU has really had a great power over me to whet the civic appetite and hone the scholarly imagination. I’ve come to think globally and to act globally, and IU has moved me to want to live my education. With that commitment I will go into this world and try to further the intellectual endeavors begun here and hope to continue to be an ambassador of Indiana University and all that it stands for because I am proud to be a Hoosier so thank you very, very much.

Trustee Shoulders: Mr. President. Since it cannot get any better than that, I move we adjourn. Congratulations Katie.

Trustee Talbot: Katie’s parents are here today and I think they should be recognized also. Katie was destined to return to Indiana University because her parents were at Indiana University several years ago and left this institution and went to the East, but when she returned as a Wells Scholar it was just the right thing for her to do and as you can see she found the right place for her to be also so I think you should introduce your parents also Katie.

Trustee Cox: Katie, you are one of half a dozen students we’ve heard place such strong emphasis on civic engagement over the past eight months. At this campus specifically I feel like the students are the ones that have really been driving the passion for civic engagement and community involvement, and I’d really like to see this campus make a bigger commitment toward what the students have been generating. I thank you very much for comments and we’re very proud of you.

President Herbert: I just want to say that Ann and Dick Claussen have done a wonderful job in nurturing this very special young lady. So, thank you for your contributions to Indiana University.

Let me also update you on several personnel matters that I think the board will want to hear about formally.

First, Provost McRobbie has appointed search committees for the deans of several academic units. The School of Informatics search is now beginning and will be chaired by Brad Wheeler who is now our Acting Chief Information Officer.

We will begin now the search for dean of the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. That committee will be chaired by Dan Smith, the dean of the Kelley School of Business. For the School of Continuing Studies the chair will be the dean of the School of Education, Gerardo Gonzalez, and for the Graduate School we will have a committee chaired by the Vice Provost for Research, Sarita Soni. In addition the search committee for the new dean for the College of Arts and Sciences is proceeding very well. The search committee that is chaired by Dean Lauren Robel from the law school in Bloomington has chosen three finalists from what she has described as an exceptionally strong candidate pool. The candidates for the College will be visiting the Bloomington campus over the next two weeks and Provost McRobbie and I will be prepared to present a recommendation to you. We anticipate that occurring at the June meeting of the board. Dr. McRobbie is available to answer any questions that you may have about these searches, and I would also like to ask him to introduce to you someone we’re very excited to add to the Indiana University family. We have explained to him the fact that you regard the admissions process as one of the most significant aspects of what we do.

Michael McRobbie: President Herbert, President Ferguson, it’s my pleasure to introduce to you today Dr. Roger Thompson whom I’ve recently appointed, subject to your confirmation, as Vice Provost for Enrollment Management.

He will take office on July 15 and he will oversee the IU offices of Admissions, Student Financial Assistance, the Registrar and Bloomington campus Orientation Programs.

Dr. Thompson comes to us from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, where he has been Associate Vive President for Enrollment Management for the past three years. Prior to that he served as University Registrar at Alabama and as Assistant Registrar at the University of Southern California, and I should interpolate there that he was working at the University of Southern California at the beginning of their remarkable rise in terms of the quality of their student body so he brings to us experience from that institution that I think has become almost legendary in that regard.

During his tenure at Alabama Dr. Thompson has provided leadership in recording breaking enrollments for the largest and most academically intelligent freshman classes in the history of the institution. He provided direction and oversight for their strategic enrollment growth initiative which had a number of results. It reached new goals for enrolling more students from the state of Alabama than any other four-year institution in the state. It achieved record numbers in nationally recognized scholars and honors college enrollments and realized significant increases in average GPA and test scores.

During Dr. Thompson’s tenure at the University of Alabama this strategic enrollment growth initiative also focused on increasing the number of students from under-represented populations on campus. The University of Alabama saw the number of National Merit, Hispanic and achievement scholars steadily increase in the last few years from 69 in 2002 to 145 in the 2005 freshman class. They anticipate the full 2006 class will be composed of approximately 180 of these nationally recognized scholars and in the 2005 freshman class 379 African-American students have been enrolled compared to 265 in 2002 representing a 43% increase.

I know Dr. Thompson will be a strong leader in this vital area of enrollment management with his prior professional experience and his academic credentials. He holds a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Administration from the University of Southern California and as I said he was there as an Assistant Registrar before he went to the University of Alabama. I’m confident that he is the most appropriate person to provide oversight in this vital area.

I should add that I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Professor Bonnie Brownlee and the search and screen committee that worked diligently for the last eight months to bring us Dr. Thompson. I’m also grateful for Roland Cote for his willingness to service as interim director of this office during the past year until we could appoint Dr. Thompson.

President Ferguson: Thank you Mr. President and yes, welcome Roger and you’ll find quickly that the board has a lot of opinions on this particular area. I’m not sure they told you that during the search process.

Bart Ng: I was so happy that there was some distance between Katie’s presentation and mine because hers was such a hard act to follow. I’m sure my presentation will sound a bit mundane, but in any case the University Faculty Council had its last meeting during the academic year on April 11.

I want to briefly go over a few items that we discussed at that meeting because it will in fact anticipate the work that we will be doing in the coming year.

Our last meeting happened to coincide with a meeting of the Integrated Image Committee and there was quite a bit of discussion at a UFC regarding Integrated Image. There was really a great deal of interest among faculties on all campuses about an Integrated Image project, and we are very supportive of the goal of that project. A large number of questions
were raised which can broadly be classified in two categories.

The first category is actually a clarity issue regarding the use of wordmarks on the various campuses. It should come as no surprise that the use of the IUPUI wordmark generally involves a longer discussion simply because it raises the issue of to actually explain IUPUI in the context of the wordmark. I think that was a great deal of discussion on that.

The second category of questions had to do with how the system schools on campuses outside of Bloomington are represented. The concern, or rather the hope, there is to make sure that we maximize the use of brand equity which the system school has over the years. I understand that a letter was sent by the Integrated Image committee to the president, and I think the IUPUI faculty has shown strong support on those recommendations.

The second item that I want to bring up for discussion has to do with the search and screen procedures for senior administrators. The procedures have gone through a couple of readings at the UFC, but on the advice of the president we believe that it would be better to have the UFC concentrate only on the policy that deals with senior academic administrators. We will have that policy for you to consider in the fall.

Turning to Intellectual Property Policy, we understand the urgency but as I reported to you last time, there’s been a change in our conceptions about some of the legal implications. We are going to give it the highest priority when we come back in the fall.

Finally, we have had quite a bit of discussion on general education again and following that meeting there was a flurry of e-mails between faculties on various campuses about that issue. I’m pleased to say as you heard from Ted Miller yesterday that Bloomington faculty is very much engaged and I think that great progress is being made at Bloomington as well as other campuses. Perhaps more importantly there is an emerging framework for university-wide discussion. I want to alert you to the fact that progress has been made and will continue to be made and we’re quite optimistic that this is an issue that we’ll finally get our arms around.

Bart Ng: I think Prof. Miller should answer that question because he is going to be the driver behind it next year, but I can assure you that we are not talking about years. We will try to demonstrate our nimbleness, as much as faculty can be nimble.

Ted Miller: We did hear your statement on January 14 that the fall of 2008 was a significant date on this regard, and we are certainly committed to that time frame. I’m hopeful that we can actually finish this off during the next academic year. I’m hoping that we won’t have to go past that, but surprising things have happened in this regard before, so there’s some uncertainty about just what’s going to happen. But I think we can get it done in the next year.

President Ferguson: You don’t want to hear the footsteps of the legislature coming behind us; it would be nice to be out in front.

Ted Miller: Well, I am hopeful that we’ll have some pretty firm ideas early in the fall semester; something pretty solid so that people will understand that we’re actually doing something and we’re going to have something in place.

Ted Miller: I don’t think there is any problem with periodic updates. Beginning on July 1st I’m going to give these reports to you and I’ll be sure to include a general education section in each on of them.

Trustee Reilly: I think it was discussed in committee yesterday how much importance we’ve put not only on this, but also on the question of articulation and transferability. It’s clear that IU has to lead this state and this is a state wide imperative that is developing as you said the legislature and a lot of other people behind us, but we’re not going to get this done state wide unless somebody steps up and as I recall yesterday we were even willing to step forward with a statement that we were into this and the president was going to work on that and then we wanted to send that signal to all the constituencies in the state even thought they’re outside our IU family because this is becoming one of the big issues in the state. So, nimbleness is important and we’re going to be out ahead of this in terms of our statement.

Ted Miller: The commitment that the board has shown to this has been extremely important in getting us to where we are right now. We have overcome some fairly basic problems this year and your public statements about the importance of this have been important in moving it to that point.

Alex Shortle: This is my last official duty and I don’t know how to follow Katie Claussen. She has inspired me throughout this year. I, too, wanted to talk about civic engagement, but I certainly can’t do it as articulately has she did. Many students share her vision and believe in the importance of the mission. I think it is something that (incoming president) Betsy Henke will carry on over the next year.

I want to thank everybody for the last year. It has been a learning experience. I appreciate having the opportunity to represent students at these meetings. It’s something we cherish and take very, very seriously, and I know Betsy will take these opportunities and run with them.

I sat down with Ken Gros Louis yesterday and talked about everything that happened this year, and I have to say I am confident the university is moving in the right direction. I am confident that my diploma will be worth a lot more in ten years than it is today and it’s already worth a lot. We’re moving in the right direction. A lot of good decisions have been made from my point of view sitting as a spectator over that last year. I don’t know if many people get this opportunity to witness these kind of changes in an organization and a very large organization like IU. It’s an experience that I will cherish. Now, without further ado here is Betsy Henke.

Betsy Henke: Thank you for inviting me to speak. I’d like to tell you a little about myself. I’m from Carmel, and both of my parents are IU Alums. I was destined for Colorado until about May of my senior year in high school and just had a change of thought, and I came here. I’m studying finance, with a minor in East Asian Studies and Spanish. I also love history. In addition to IUSA I’ve been thoroughly involved with Dance Marathon. I was a Riley kid a long time ago and been raising money ever since, so as Alex mentioned, civic engagement is huge to me. I share Casey’s thought that we need to accelerate the publicity about what IU students are doing in that regard. I am also a member of Chi Omega.

Back to us for IUSA, we have been in office since April 15 we’ve been doing a lot of work, meeting with a lot of different administrators and directors and students across campus. We’ve taken a more forward-looking proactive look at restructuring IUSA and building it for the future. We’ve set a budget and we’ve cut costs by about $25,000 and reallocated the funds toward student initiatives, taking them out of administrative and office costs.

We held one Congress meeting this semester which has been very beneficial. We were able to pass all our directors, our budget, Supreme Court as well as their justices; we elected our speaker of the house. We’re ready to go. So, it is very exciting to have that out of the way. We also had a Spring Retreat, which went really well.

I’d like to tell you about some of our big priorities this year. One is a proposal to provide unlimited music downloading, which is a neat service that has been added to a lot of universities that are very competitive with IU. It’s a really, really nice interactive service. We are also pushing trying to build and enhance the Readership Program. We’d like to engage students and professors to use some of these newspapers and bring some programs that might entice students to get more out of reading the newspaper. We’re working with USA Today and the New York Times.

Additionally, we are already working with the Athletics Department. We are really trying to engage students in building and enhancing their athletic experience at IU. A number of things have taken place over the last year and we feel that there are some measures that need to be taken to try to bring some things back to students and while preventing some costs from being incurred. We’ve has some really positive meetings with a number of directors at the Athletics Department and we’re working with the Student Athletic Board to try to bring some new ideas to IU. …

Betsy Henke: … (other issues that IUSA is interested in) are already being looked into by numerous other organization across campus, and it makes sense to collaborate with them. We’ve done that with Women’s Affairs initiatives, such as rape awareness, and we’re working with the Women’s Student Association. I’ve already mentioned our collaboration with the Student Athletic Board, as well as some other student athletes who ran on that our ticket and are now in Congress and serving as directors. They are all trying to reach out to more student organizations to try to build more support. We’re also working with student engagement and philanthropic groups, such as Dance Marathon and Relay for Life, and a number of other organizations. We’re really excited to give people a little bit of ownership in what they’re doing because they can be more productive in the areas that they’re interested in.

Finally, I would like to introduce IUSA Vice President of Administration, Andrew Lauck. May I answer any questions?

Trustee Cox: Betsy was the director of the Student Organization Fund Board and I was their graduate advisor. She’s so organized I really didn’t have to do anything all year long so I’m really looking forward to working with her and Andrew and the All University Student Association.

Trustee Talbot: I have to bring up my favorite topic Alex, guess what it is. Civic engagement, picking up trash in the classrooms. I spoke to a large group of business students just recently and I spoke in the business auditorium and as I walked down the steps of the auditorium to the front of the room I picked up enough trash to cover an entire table. People were a little offended that I was picking up trash and not putting it in the trash container, but I tried to show them what was on the floors. I’m still hearing from our professors that they’re cleaning up the trash in the rooms when they go to teach, and so that’s an emphasis I want you guys to get on top of. Alex can tell you all about my way of approaching it and I’ve tried for three administrations now, he escaped that, but Betsy I’ll be back with you.

Trustee Breckenridge: Betsy, I want to congratulate you on becoming president of the student body and I want to commend you on selecting Indiana University as your university and I am just curious to know what prompted the change. What things made you come to IU rather than going to Colorado.

Betsy Henke: I get that question a lot. I have relatives in Colorado and I grew up skiing. But toward the end of my senior year in high school I realized that I’ve always loved IU. I’m a Hoosier. I’ve probably been to every single football game since I could be in a car seat. I’ve told people a number of times that I think my parents love this school more than my brother and me. But I really want to go into business, and I want to end up in the Midwest, so going to Colorado was going to be like a four-year ski trip. I quickly changed my mind and I ended up here and I love it.

Trustee Cohen: Finance and Audit met yesterday morning at 8:00. All committee members along with all of the trustees were present.

Action Item: Approval is requested for the Indiana University Operating Budget for FY 2006-2007

Our meeting started with a presentation by Steve Keucher on the Fiscal Year 06-07 budget. The proposal included an overall total budget increase of 4.5%. We received a detailed analysis of the general fund budget which increased by 4.3%. The salary policy set by the trustees in April was implemented including the president’s plan for adjustments for the lowest-paid employees. The budget was unanimously approved by the full committee for forwarding to the full board for formal approval.

Trustee Cohen: Next, the committee, operating under the previous delegation of the full board, unanimously approved the Student Fee Bonds Series Q and Series R.

RESOLUTION OF THE DULY APPOINTED FINANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEE
OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY
APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE SALE OF ITS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY STUDENT FEE BONDS, SERIES Q AND SERIES R

WHEREAS, The Trustees of Indiana University (the “Corporation”) has full power and authority under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Indiana to operate the institution of higher education known as Indiana University (the “University”) including, more particularly, under the provisions of Indiana Code 20-12-6, the power and authority to issue bonds from time to time in order to acquire, construct, renovate and equip various facilities of the University; and
WHEREAS, the Corporation has heretofore entered into a Trust Indenture dated as of October 1, 1985 (as previously supplemented and amended) (the “Indenture”), with J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association, as successor trustee (the “Trustee”) for the purpose of securing its Indiana University Student Fee Bonds (“Bonds”), as issued from time to time; and

WHEREAS, the Indenture authorizes the issuance of additional series of Bonds by the Corporation and the authentication and delivery of such additional series of Bonds by the Trustee under the conditions set forth therein , which conditions have been or will be complied with so as to authorize the issuance, authentication and delivery of the Series Q Bonds and Series R Bonds described below by the Trustee under the conditions set forth therein, to provide the funds required (a) to finance the acquisition, construction, renovation and equipping of some or all of the various projects described in Exhibit A hereto and related expenses (collectively, the “Projects”), (b) to refund a portion of its Bonds from among the various prior series set forth in Exhibit B hereto (the “Refunded Bonds”) in order to generate debt service savings (the “Refunding”), and (c) to pay the costs of any credit enhancement, capitalized interest, costs of issuance and other costs incidental to the issuance of such Bonds: and

WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of the Corporation (the “Board”) has authorized the Treasurer of the Corporation (the “Treasurer”) to investigate, develop and evaluate a Plan of Financing for the Projects and the Refunding (the “Plan”) and to present that Plan for consideration by the Finance and Audit Committee of the Board (the “Committee”), pursuant (most recently) to a Board Resolution dated March 3, 2006 (the “Delegation Resolution”); and

WHEREAS, the Board has authorized the Committee to approve a Plan and to authorize the execution and delivery of the Indiana University Student Fee Bonds, Series Q and Series R (the “Bonds”) and a Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture, a Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture, a Preliminary Official Statement for each series, a Final Official Statement for each series, a Bond Purchase Agreement for each series, an Escrow Agreement, a Construction and Rebate Agreement for each series, a Supplement to the Continuing Disclosure Undertaking Agreements for each series, the form of each Series of the Bonds and any further documents required to complete the execution and delivery of each Series of the Bonds, pursuant to the Board Resolution; and

WHEREAS, the Treasurer has investigated, developed, evaluated and presented a Plan for the Bonds to the Committee; and

WHEREAS, the Committee desires to approve the Plan presented by the Treasurer including both the financing of the Projects and the Refunding, if deemed appropriate by the Treasurer; and

WHEREAS, there has now been submitted to the Committee forms of the Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture and the Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture (the “Supplemental Indentures”), forms of Preliminary Official Statement for use with each series (the “Preliminary Official Statements”), forms of Construction and Rebate Agreement for use with each series (the “Rebate Agreements”), a form of Escrow Deposit Agreement (the “Escrow Agreement”), forms of Supplement to Continuing Disclosure Undertaking Agreements for use with each series (the “Undertakings”), and forms of Bond Purchase Agreement for use with each series (the “Bond Purchase Agreements”) in connection with the issuance of the Bonds in the aggregate issued amount not to exceed (a) $119,387,863 for the Projects, plus amounts necessary to provide for (b) the Refunding, and (c) credit enhancement, if any, capitalized interest, underwriters’ discount, costs of issuance and other costs incidental to the issuance of the Bonds (collectively, the “Authorized Amount”) all as permitted by law (the “Authorized Amount”), which financings have been approved by the State Budget Agency, the State Budget Director and Governor of the State of Indiana;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Committee as follows:

The issuance of the Bonds by the Corporation on the terms and conditions set forth in the Supplemental Indentures is hereby approved in an amount not to exceed the Authorized Amount. The Bonds shall be respectively designated as “Indiana University Student Fee Bonds, Series Q” or “Indiana University Student Fee Bonds, Series R” and may be issued as both current interest bonds and/or capital appreciation bonds. Each series of Bonds may be issued for any combination of the purposes set forth herein, as determined by the Treasurer. The true interest cost of each series of the Bonds shall not exceed 6% per annum with a maximum underwriter’s discount of 0.8% and with such serial or term maturities and redemption features as the executing officers shall approve. The final maturity date of the Bonds shall not exceed August 1, 2034. The Bonds shall be sold pursuant to the Bond Purchase Agreements at negotiated sale with one series being sold to City Securities Corporation and the other to J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., each as representative of other underwriters listed in Exhibit C and in the respective Bond Purchase Agreement.

Each Supplemental Indenture is approved in substantially the form submitted to the Committee and is made a part of this Resolution as if fully set forth herein. The President, Vice President or Treasurer of the Corporation are, and each of them is, hereby authorized to execute and deliver, and the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Board are, and each of them is, hereby authorized to attest the signature thereof and to imprint the corporate seal of the Corporation on the Supplemental Indenture in substantially the form presented to this meeting, with such changes in form or substance as the officer executing such document shall approve, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution and delivery thereof.

Each Preliminary Official Statement is approved in substantially the form submitted to the Committee and is made a part of this Resolution as if fully set forth herein, with such modifications as are necessary to identify the particular series of Bonds relative thereto. The President, Vice President or Treasurer of the Corporation are, and each of them is, hereby authorized and directed to make such changes in form or substance as are necessary or appropriate, to authorize the distribution of each Preliminary Official Statement, to deem each Preliminary Official Statement to be final or nearly final for purposes of applicable Securities and Exchange Commission rules, to place each Preliminary Official Statement into final form (the “Final Official Statement”) and to execute and deliver the Final Official Statement with such changes in form or substance as the officer executing such document shall approve, and to cause printed copies of each Preliminary Official Statement and Final Official Statement to be provided to such prospective purchasers, investors and other persons as he or she may deem advisable in order to market the Bonds of each Series.

Each Bond Purchase Agreement is hereby approved in substantially the form submitted to the Committee and is made a part of this Resolution as if set forth fully herein, with such modifications as are necessary to identify the particular series of Bonds relative thereto. The President, Vice President or the Treasurer of the Corporation are, and each of them is, hereby authorized to execute and deliver the Bond Purchase Agreement in substantially the form submitted to the Committee, with such changes in form or substance as the officer executing such document shall approve, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution and delivery thereof. The Underwriters identified in Exhibit C hereto are hereby appointed in the respective capacities set forth in Exhibit C.

Each Rebate Agreement is hereby approved in substantially the form submitted to the Committee and is made a part of this Resolution as if set forth fully herein, with such modifications as are necessary to identify the particular series of Bonds relative thereto. The President, Vice President or the Treasurer of the Corporation are, and each of them is, hereby authorized to execute and deliver, the Rebate Agreement in substantially the form submitted to the Committee, with such changes in form or substance as the officer executing such document shall approve, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution and delivery thereof.

The Escrow Agreement for use in connection with the refunding described above is hereby approved in substantially the form submitted to the Committee and is made a part of this Resolution as if set forth fully herein. The President, Vice President or the Treasurer of the Corporation are, and each of them is, hereby authorized to execute and deliver, the Escrow Agreement in substantially the form submitted to the Committee, with such changes in form or substance as the officer executing such document shall approve, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution and delivery thereof.

Each Undertaking is hereby approved in substantially the form submitted to the Committee and is made a part of this Resolution as if set forth fully herein, with such modifications as are necessary to identify the particular series of Bonds relative thereto. The President, Vice President or the Treasurer of the Corporation are, and each of them is, hereby authorized to execute and deliver the Undertaking in substantially the form submitted to the Committee, with such changes in form or substance as the officer executing such document shall approve, such approval to be conclusively evidenced by the execution and delivery thereof. The President, Vice President or the Treasurer of the Corporation are, and each of them is, hereby further authorized to execute and deliver in the future an information dissemination agreement or agreements with the Trustee as counterparty to the Undertaking (or such other third parties as may be considered appropriate) to implement the Corporation’s obligations under the Undertaking.

The President, Vice President or the Treasurer of the Corporation are, and each of them is, hereby authorized to prepare the bond forms for each series, as approved by the Committee in accordance with the Board Resolution required for use in the issuance of the Bonds, and to cause the same to be executed manually or by facsimile by the proper officers of the Board as provided in the Indenture. Upon the execution of the Bonds, the Treasurer shall deliver the Bonds to the Trustee for authentication, and upon such authentication, the Treasurer is authorized and directed to deliver the Bonds to the purchasers thereof on payment of the purchase price.

Indianapolis Campus -- Campus Center	$45,000,000
Indianapolis Campus -- Research Institute III Building	$33,333,333
Bloomington Campus -- Central Heating Plant -- Service Building	$7,000,000
Bloomington Campus -- Central Heating Plant -- Renovation	$34,054,530

All or a portion of any of the following Series of Indiana University Student Fee Bonds:

Series K

Series L

Series M

Series N

Series O

Series P

Senior Managers:	City Securities Corporation and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. each for one series designated by the Treasurer
Co-Senior Manager(s):	Lehman Brothers Inc.
	City Securities Corporation
	J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.

Co-Managers:	Other firms to be designated at the discretion of the Treasurer

Trustee Cohen: Next, we heard a presentation by Jan Corel from the State Board of Accounts on the A133 Audit regarding financial aid compliance issues. Some minor issues were disclosed, as were some problems in the audit relating primarily to the PeopleSoft software and training of staff in using the new system. The staff has been charged with addressing the issues raised in the audit in a timely and aggressive fashion, and the oversight and compliance monitoring will include Provost McRobbie, Vice President Palmer, Internal Audit and the State Board of Accounts. We hope that going forward our audit will come back a little cleaner, but we’re comfortable with where it stood.

Our final agenda item was a presentation by Professor Kurt Zorn on the RCM Task Force report. The task force interviewed a wide range of individuals, including trustees and administrators, on the policies on RCM. Professor Zorn reviewed the major findings of the task force, including these major themes:

The presentation concluded with a series of implementation steps to take and proposed committee compositions to work on addressing the recommendations of the task force. We’ll be hearing more about RCM at future meetings. With that our meeting concluded.

Trustee Breckenridge: Thank you, Mr. President. The Facilities Committee met for two hours yesterday in the Frangipani Room. Present were committee members and other trustees. The committee considered several projects and design approvals and took a tour of campus facilities. Members also saw an architectural award that had been given to IU Northwest.

The committee heard and approved several project and design approvals that need to be considered by the full board.

Action Item: Design approval of the Board is requested for the Reference Reading Room within the Wells Main Library. The project proposes reconfiguration of 10,180 gross square feet to create a traditional library reading room containing a reduced reference collection, large reading tables, and lounge seating. The space will also feature finishes of a traditional level, including wood trim, paneling, wall coverings and carpet. Plans will address the installation of new ceilings, light fixtures, heating/air-conditioning systems and a fire suppressant system.

Trustee Shoulders: Let the record show I abstained from this vote for reasons stated yesterday.

Action Item: Project and design approval of the Board are requested for the construction of a new building to house the Hutton Honors College. The building will be located at the northwest corner of the intersection of Woodlawn and Seventh Streets on the Bloomington campus. The project will construct a two-story building, with approximately 13,000 gross square feet of floor space. The exterior of the building will use limestone and slate in the collegiate gothic style. The project site will also retain the fieldstone walls and flower gardens of the central historic campus. The facility will house many functions under one roof, including a dedicated seminar classroom, library/resource room, student study lounges, event spaces, and offices for faculty, advisors, and administrators. The project is estimated to cost $3,000,000 and will be funded through a gift from Edward L. Hutton. Appropriate State approvals will be requested.

Action Item: Project approval of the Board is requested to proceed with construction of a new 5-½ level open parking garage, located on the corner of Atwater and Fess Avenue. The structure will provide offices for Parking Operations on the first level and spaces for approximately 560 vehicles. The main vehicular entry will be on Fess Avenue, with a pedestrian stair/elevator tower entry on the northeast corner. The design will provide a second vehicular access from Indiana Avenue. The garage exterior will be limestone veneer with openings to blend with the campus collegiate gothic architectural character. The project is estimated to cost $10,946,000 and will be funded by Parking Operations. Appropriate State approvals will be requested.

Action Item: Design approval of the Board is requested for the design of a new chapter house for Beta Theta Pi. The new house will be located at 1100 North Jordan Avenue on the Bloomington campus. The house will be a three-story limestone structure designed in a style to reflect the character and charm of the original house located at Tenth and Forest. The house and site will provide living accommodations for fifty residents, thirty non-residents and parking.

Trustee Cox: I just want to say this house is going to be where my old fraternity was, and I’m very pleased with the design and pleased with the prospect that one of our abandoned houses will be taken care of and that something will actually be in place there. I also think that George Bledsoe and the strong alumni base that Beta Theta Pi had provided for their students is certainly a model for other to look at and work with as they come back on this campus.

Action Item: Project approval of the Board is requested to proceed with the renovation of approximately 18,685 assignable square feet on the second floor of the former Delco Electronics Building in Kokomo. The renovation will create approximately 2,350 assignable square feet of dedicated laboratory space, approximately 7,200 assignable square feet of office space, and approximately 1,550 assignable square feet of conference/classroom space. The laboratories are designed to be convertible for wet, dry and electronics uses. All areas renovated in this project are designed to be flexible to meet changing user needs in the development of high-tech businesses. The project is estimated to cost $989,477 and will be funded by a grant issued by the United States Small Business Administration.

Trustee Breckenridge: Vice President Clapacs gave a brief overview about future plans at IU Bloomington for a possible research park and then he led trustees on a tour of Simon Hall, the future Multidisciplinary Science Building Phase II site. The possible research park area and the Range Road area was a very interesting tour for those of us who had not seen the expanse of our institution and how we are able to really move out and grow. We had the space. The committee was then adjourned. Thank you.

It was a long meeting yesterday, but it was all very good information and important.

Action Item: Approval is requested to extend the Partially Paid Family Leave Policy for faculty until June 2008

We have not had a new Partially Paid Family Leave come to us from the faculty this year. They’re still working on it. Thus, we need to extend the existing Family Leave until June 2008.

Partially-Paid Family Leave Policy
By Action of the University Faculty Council: April 8, 1997
Amended and Approved by the Board of Trustees: May 8, 1998, June 22, 2001
Previously Extended by Trustees: May 7, 2004; May 5, 2005

WHEREAS, the University Faculty Council has requested that a partially-paid family leave policy be established for full-time academic appointees, including full-time clinical faculty members and full-time librarians,

BE IT RESOLVED, that

After one year of service and with a frequency not to exceed once every three years, a full-time academic appointee is eligible for a partially-paid leave:

1. For the birth or adoption of a child by the academic appointee or the academic appointee's spouse, which leave must be concluded within twelve (12) months of the birth of the child or within twelve (12) months of the date on which the child is placed for adoption with the academic appointee.

2. For the serious health condition of the academic appointee's spouse, child, or parent, when the academic appointee is the primary or co-primary caretaker.

The partially-paid leave shall be for a period not to exceed fifteen (15) weeks or the end of the semester, whichever occurs first.

During the partially-paid leave, the academic appointee shall be paid an amount not to exceed two-thirds of the appointee's salary. Contributions to the appointee's retirement plan during this period of leave shall be based on the reduced salary actually paid.

During the period of leave, the academic appointee, other than a librarian or a clinical faculty member, is relieved from teaching duties while continuing research, creative work and service activities. Upon return to regular duties, the academic appointee shall not be required to assume a heavier teaching load than normal. The continuing duties of a librarian or of a clinical faculty member during the period of leave shall be negotiated by the academic appointee and the dean of the academic appointee's school or designee of the dean, and said continuing duties shall approximate the proportion of salary received during the leave. Upon return from leave, a librarian or clinical faculty member shall not be required to assume more duties than usual.

Each campus chancellor shall appoint a panel of faculty and administrators to approve leaves requested pursuant to the terms of this policy and to ensure that the leaves are in compliance with this policy.

The portion of salaries and benefits that are not paid to the academic appointees who receive leave pursuant to this policy shall create a funding pool to hire temporary replacements as necessary. The campus shall determine whether the funding pool is campus-wide or in some cases school-wide.

Leave taken pursuant to this policy shall count as all or part of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act requirements.

This policy is effective until June 30, 2004. At that time it will be reviewed and may be renewed by the affirmative action of the Board of Trustees upon the recommendation of the faculty and administrators of the University.
Unanimously approved on a motion duly made and seconded.

Trustee Talbot: We had a very good presentation on, “A Comprehensive Strategy: Increasing the Enrollment of Underrepresented Minorities on the Bloomington Campus,” brought to us by Vice President Charlie Nelms. Charlie presented us with a lot of facts and gave us a contextual framework for the change that we would like to see happen and that we have actually asked him to bring to us and make it happen. He talked about the trends, comparisons, and the high school pipeline bringing these students to us and how we can get there and how financial aid and college costs are a huge factor in that.

He also brought with him Courtney Williams the president of the Neal-Marshall Black Student Union, and she was absolutely compelling in her remarks to us about the needs of students who are under-represented on this campus. Courtney was a real star for us yesterday and it was wonderful to have her narrative about what her experiences have been and what she’s seen other students do.

Action Item: Approval is requested for a motion to endorse the recommended goal of doubling the enrollment of under-represented minorities on the Bloomington campus by 2013-14. The president of Indiana University and the provost of the IU Bloomington campus will develop a budget to support this strategy as well as identify potential sources of funding for presentation to the Board of Trustees.

Trustee Talbot: We also had first readings of the Guidelines for Student Housing on our regional campuses and we heard from two of our chancellors who support the guidelines. We also had the first readings of the admissions policies for the regional campuses as part of the mission differentiation project. We will return to both at the June meeting.

We adjourned a little early and there was no old business or new business and that’s my report Mr. President.

Trustee Shoulders: We heard a wonderful presentation from the chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College in Bloomington, John R. Whikehart, who discussed the excellent progress that has been made in the relations between our institutions in the last four years. For example, he noted that four years ago there were 39 credit hours that transferred from Ivy Tech to IU Bloomington and today, under the guidance of President Herbert and himself, 377 hours transfer. Four years ago there were no degree transfers. Now there are three. We talked about the Hoosier Link Program, which I think charts an exciting future for the collaboration and articulation and transfer agreements between our two institutions.

President Ferguson: Thank you, Trustee Shoulders. I’d like to comment on the discussion we had about achieving a statewide program of transfer and articulation between Ivy Tech and IU, which J T. Forbes is helping to coordinate on behalf of Indiana University. I’m not sure you were there to hear the emphatic emphasis that the board put on JT. I suggested that the first three areas we might look at for articulation possibilities are workforce-oriented and include healthcare, education, and life sciences. We feel an imperative to get that done and support that effort, so JT, thank you for your work.

Trustee Ferguson: Long-Range Planning heard an excellent presentation from Vice President Craig Brater on a data-driven decision model that the IU School of Medicine is using. It was very impressive. We also heard from Victor Borden on the regional campus peer institutions and how they were selected and suggested.

Trustee Cox: The campus student governments are interested in updating the policies regarding the use of student activity money. I think I mentioned at one of our earlier board meetings, and I’m hoping to receive those policies. I’m working with the University Counsel’s Office and with the Vice President for Student Affairs, Bloomington, to get updated policies for this board to approve and I have a question. Would these policies come to the board?

Trustee Cox: So, hopefully we can have those by the fall them and that concludes my report.

IUB – Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Bloomington Michael McRobbie

Michael McRobbie: I wanted to note that in keeping with Dean Subbaswamy’s wishes to step down from his position at the end of the Commencement exercises this weekend, I’ve appointed David Zaret as interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Dean Swamy will continue to assist during this transitional time until he leaves June on 30, but as of Monday David able to share responsibilities for management of the college.

I think many of you know David. He served as the executive associate dean of the College from 1999-2005. He’s a professor of sociology and an adjunct professor of history. I’ve worked pretty closely with him in my other capacities over the years. He’s really a first-rate administrator, knows the College intimately and I’m particularly grateful that he has agreed to serve in the interim capacity. Assuming that we’re able to identify a dean in a satisfactory timeframe, I believe that David will serve until about the end of the calendar year.

For Randall D. Beer, Professor of Computer Science, with tenure, School of Informatics, and Professor of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences, beginning July 1, 2006.

For Barbara Cherry, Professor of Telecommunications, with tenure, College of Arts and Sciences, beginning August 1, 2006. For William Howard Swanson, Professor of Optometry, with tenure, School of Optometry, beginning June 1, 2006.

For Roger J. Thompson, Vice Provost for Enrollment Management, Office of the Provost, beginning July 15, 2006.

For Kumble R. Subbaswamy, drop the title of Dean of the College of Arts and Science, effective May 7, 2006, while retaining the title of Professor of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences.

Charles Bantz: I want to bring attention to one of our appointments, Ghassan Kassab. Shortly after I arrived I had one of those truly wonderful experiences where we held a dinner and I was fortunate to meet the Guidant Foundation leadership as they announced a gift to establish the Thomas J. Linnemeier Guidant Foundation Chair in Biomedical Engineering. At that meeting the leadership of Guidant Foundation looked at me directly and said, “The campus at IUPUI is the only place that combines medicine and engineering in this state and you need to improve it and make it an essential part of Indiana’s economy, and that’s why we are giving you in excess of $1 million.” Much to my delight, they happened to write the check for $1,250,000 instead of $1,200,000 so we picked up $50,000 in spare change to assist this.

The fact that I’m sitting here three years later announcing this appointment tells you how competitive it is to hire in one of the most innovative areas of research in this country.

Kassab is currently at the University of California, Irvine. He is a biomedical engineer who works with mathematical questions as well as engineering questions in the flow of cardiovascular and intestinal processes. The mathematicians at the School of Science, including Bart Ng, are extremely pleased by our hunting him down and courting him for the last nine months, and I want to thank Dean Brater and his colleagues in Medicine for the incredible partnership to make this happen. It literally could not have happened without the Guidant support, without the partnership within the School of Science and without the School of Medicine. This is a key step in our development of biomedical engineering, which you supported through the Commitment to Excellence Funding, and which my colleagues have been working on to develop new undergraduate, master and doctorate programs, along with a new department, all in the last five years. It’s extremely important to bring this kind of energetic young leadership and talent to the campus, and I really do look forward to meeting him and seeing him join the team and make the kind of contribution that is expected by our colleagues in Indianapolis. Thank you.

For Ghassan Kassab, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, with tenure beginning April 1, 2006, with the additional title of Thomas J. Linnemeier Guidant Foundation Chair in Biomedical Engineering.

For Qi-Zhuang Ye, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, with tenure, beginning August 1, 2006.

For Mary G. Austrom, Adjunct Associate Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, the additional title of Wesley P. Martin Professor in Alzheimer’s Education, School of Medicine, beginning April 3, 2006.

For Deborah G. Finkel, Professor of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, appointment as Dean for Research for the period July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2009. Delete title of Acting Dean for Research effective July 1, 2006.

For Bahman Nassim, Professor of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, reappointment as Dean, School of Natural Sciences for the period August 1, 2006 to July 31, 2009

Reporting for the record the awarding of an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, to Natsagiin Bagabandi, former president of Mongolia, at the 2005 Winter Commencement at IU Bloomington.

Trustee Shoulders: President Ferguson, it’s particularly an honor for me to offer this resolution as a past president of the College of Arts and Science Alumni, I’m happy to offer this resolution for adoption by the board of trustees:

WHEREAS, the Trustees of Indiana University wish to applaud the achievements of Kumble R. Subbaswamy, a gifted leader in higher education and one of its most strategic thinkers; and

Whereas, he received a Ph.D. in physics from Indiana University in 1976 as part of his more than 30-year relationship with his alma mater; and

Whereas, he became dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 2000 and in that position demonstrated that he is one of Indiana University’s ablest and most creative administrators; and

Whereas, he has been a passionate advocate for enhancing Indiana University’s strengths in the humanities and the liberal arts while providing visionary leadership in the sciences;

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Trustees of Indiana University acknowledge and commend Kumble R. Subbaswamy’s service to IU with the deepest respect, gratitude, and affection.

Reporting for the record the names of six members of the faculty who were named Distinguished Professors at Founders Day on April 2, 2006:

J. Peter Burkholder, Professor of Music, School of Music, IUB
Marion E. Broome, Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, IUPUI
Ellen Ketterson, Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, IUB
V. Alan Kostelecky, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, IUB
Robert M. Nosofsky, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, IUB
Joseph Steinmetz, Eleanor Cox Riggs Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, IUB

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