UofSC Board of Trustees committees hold June meetings
Posted on: June 11, 2022; Updated on: June 11, 2022
By Abe Danaher, adanaher@mailbox.sc.edu, 803-576-7780
Four of the University of South Carolina Board of Trustees’ committees met on Friday (June 10). The committees — Finance and Infrastructure; Health and Medical Affairs; Advancement, Engagement and Communications; and Academic Excellence and Student Experience — approved actions that will be brought to the Board of Trustees’ meeting on June 24 for full Board approval.
Here's a round-up of the actions taken:
- The fiscal year 2023 Designated Funds Budget was approved.
- Alumni Association Board of Trustee Representative Robin Roberts was approved as a non-board, non-voting expert advisor to the Advancement, Engagement and Communications Committee.
- Funds were approved for capital renovations to Harper College and DeSaussure College.
- Three 50-year easements on portions of university property were approved.
- The 2022 Comprehensive Permanent Improvement Plan was approved.
- For the Columbia campus — 39 tenure and promotion recommendations were approved for the 2021 Fall cycle and 17 honorary academic titles were approved.
- Ten programs on the Columbia campus were slated for termination.
- Two new academic departments were approved for the Columbia campus, with the African American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies programs approved to become departments.
- Minor faculty manual changes were approved for USC Upstate, Palmetto College and USC Columbia.
- For USC Aiken — five tenure and promotion recommendations were approved for the 2021-22 cycle and two honorary academic titles were approved.
- Two new academic programs were approved for USC Aiken.
- For USC Beaufort — nine tenure and promotion recommendations were approved for the 2021-22 cycle.
- For USC Upstate — 16 tenure and promotion recommendations were approved for the 2021-22 cycle.
- For Palmetto College — six tenure and promotion recommendations were approved for the 2021 Fall cycle.
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