{"id":6899,"date":"2014-12-03T12:48:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T17:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6899"},"modified":"2014-12-03T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T17:53:00","slug":"december-board-of-regents-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6899","title":{"rendered":"December Board of Regents Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/uw-system-logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-363 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/uw-system-logo.gif\" alt=\"uw system logo\" width=\"149\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a>The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/download\/agendas\/Outline-Agenda-December-2014.pdf\">will meet<\/a>\u00a0Thursday and Friday, December 4 and 5 at at UW-Madison.\u00a0The meeting will be held in the Symphony and Overture Rooms of <a href=\"http:\/\/map.wisc.edu\/s\/ccfkbsuz\">Gordon Dining and Event Center<\/a>, 770 West Dayton Street. Livestream coverage of the meeting will be available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwex.edu\/ics\/stream\/regents\/meetings\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The regents will meet in committees Thursday afternoon and Friday morning:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/download\/agendas\/Education-Committee-December-2014.pdf\">Education Committee<\/a> will discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/UWS-baccalaureate-engineering-programs.pdf\">UW System baccalaureate engineering programs<\/a>, including the proposal to create a Northwest Wisconsin Engineering Consortium at\u00a0UW-River Falls, UW-Stout, and UW-Eau Claire. Earlier this year, UW System commissioned a study to examine the potential need for more engineers in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/download\/agendas\/B&amp;F-Committee-December-2014.pdf\">Business and Finance Committee<\/a> will hear a quarterly report on gifts and grants, review the trust funds investment policy, and listen project update reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/download\/agendas\/CPB-Committee-December-2014.pdf\">Capital Planning and Budget Committee<\/a> will discuss proposed\u00a0building projects, including projects at Grainger Hall and Elizabeth Waters Residence Hall. The Grainger Hall project to renovate two classrooms will be paid for\u00a0entirely through gift funds, while the residence hall project requires additional funding authority.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch has been invited to address the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/download\/agendas\/REDI-Committee-December-2014.pdf\">Research, Economic Development, and Innovation Committee<\/a>. The committee will also hear updates on Economic Development Incentive Grant recipients, including\u00a0Discovery to Product (D2P) at\u00a0UW-Madison.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/regents\/download\/agendas\/Audit-Committee-December-2014.pdf\">Audit Committee<\/a> will discuss recent UW System audit reports and consider a request for proposals to create a waste, fraud and abuse hotline.<\/p>\n<p>The full board begins its meeting at 9 am Friday. UW System President Ray Cross will address the board, providing his thoughts on transforming the way the university does business. The regents\u00a0will hear reports from the Higher Educational Aids Board, the Hospital Authority Board, and the Wisconsin Technical College System Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will meet\u00a0Thursday and Friday, December 4 and 5 at at UW-Madison.\u00a0The meeting will be held in the Symphony and Overture Rooms of Gordon Dining and Event Center, 770 West Dayton Street. Livestream&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6899\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uw-system","tag-regents","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6910,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions\/6910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}