Board of Trustees to meet today
By Blair Busch
Staff Reporter

Victor Boschini will meet with TCU’s Board of Trustees today for the first time in the role of chancellor.

“I’m a little nervous about meeting with all of them for the first time, but I have already met with so many of them individually,” Boschini said.

The board will review several issues, including the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ recommendations from their spring visit.

“I want to make sure we pass the changes to the bylaws, which were primarily recommended by the SACS reviewers,” Boschini said.

An update on the financial situation and assumptions that will be used to determine a draft for next year’s budget will be presented to the trustees.

Bronson Davis, vice chancellor for university advancement, will lead a discussion on the first phase of the “Our Time, Our Future” campaign.

“We are reviewing the status of our fund raising this year to see how we are doing,” Davis said. “We are then going to discuss the possibilities of moving the kickoff to the spring of 2005, extending the campaign one year so that it will end May 2008, and also increasing the goal to $250 million.”

Committee reports from around campus will update the Board on the projects that are currently being constructed.

Nadia Lahutsky, Faculty Senate chair, was invited to speak to the Academic Affairs Committee Thursday to discuss the Provost Search Committee and the new core curriculum. The Academic Affairs Committee will report to the rest of the trustees today.

“I want them to see the progress that has been made with the core and emphasize everything from the academic end,” Lahutsky said.