The Board of Governors of the State System of Higher Education met this morning at the KCAC, and approved the budgets for the next school year, but as far as funding requests to the state government, that is being held off until later in the month.
During the meeting, the State System’s new chancellor Daniel Greenstein made his first address to the board. He also laid out a plan for the next steps in the State System’s redesign process, which includes putting in place management tools that will help the state system in three different ways. It will give the universities to have a greater degree of autonomy in exchange for a greater degree of accountability, it will also give the State System the opportunity to go to the state government and reassure them that things are in good hands, and it will also enable the State System to reset its culture as far as goals and budgets go, including the use of inclusive processes.
Greenstein recommended that the board not prepare an appropriation request to state government until the end of the month. Also, the tuition policy will be delayed until April of next year. Greenstein said he was uncomfortable working without those goals in place.
In place of that, the board endorsed the strategic direction and timeframe laid out by the Chancellor for the second phase of the State System’s redesign.
In other business, the board unanimously approved changes to the policy concerning each school’s academic calendar. It used to be that all the state system schools started in the same week, but instead it gives each university a two week period to choose when they will start.
