Board of Trustees’ April meetings to conclude Friday

The Board of Trustees will wrap up their meetings for the month of April today.
In the morning, from 8 to 9:45 a.m., facilities and auxiliaries are on the agenda.

The facilities and auxiliaries committee will discuss the Integrated Energy Master Plan, an initiative that will reduce carbon emissions on campus by 52 percent, according to page 8 of the plan.

It’s slated to cost $82.6 million to fully implement, but is also expected to pay for itself within 10 years. It’s supposed to reduce annual energy costs of the campus by $9.7 million a year.

Also discussed in this portion of the meeting will be the approval of the new medical school campus in Evansville.

IU started directing the planning process for the campus after receiving a $2-million planning fund from the Indiana General Assembly, according to a Feb. 2 issue of the IDS.

The center will take about two years to build and may open for business in summer of 2017.

A campus sustainability report will also be discussed. Designs for gateways will also be looked over for approval during the meeting.

The University Relations Committee will lead the talk from 10 to 11:45 a.m., where they will talk about the results of a student engagement study, and IU research.

A university wide IU Foundation development campaign will also be discussed.

Finally, a business meeting will take place from 1 to 2 p.m., which will be a recap of the meetings that took place in the morning and Thursday.

The meeting will include a voting session for approval of seven new IU degrees.

Four of these new degrees would be available on the Bloomington campus: a bachelor’s and a master’s of science in computational linguistics; a bachelor of arts in dance and a bachelor of arts in biotechnology.

If approved, IU-Southeast will begin to offer a bachelor of science in music and a bachelor of science in sociology, and IU-South Bend would offer a bachelor of arts in
sustainability.

Ashley Jenkins