The University of Nebraska Board of Regents will meet Thursday, June 28, 2018, at Varner Hall, 3835 Holdrege St. in Lincoln. The Board meeting will begin at 9 a.m. It is open to the public and will be audio-streamed live at www.nebraska.edu.
A complete agenda for the June meeting is available here. Among other items, the Board will consider the following:
- A contract extension for President Hank Bounds, to June 30, 2023, with no increase in salary given the university's budget challenges. (Addendum IX-A-1)
- Creation of a master's degree in long-term care management at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. (Addendum IX-A-2)
- Merging of the College of Fine Arts and Humanities and the College of Natural and Social Sciences to form the College of Arts and Sciences at UNK. (Addendum IX-A-4)
- Creation of a bachelor's degree in emerging media arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. (Addendum IX-A-6)
- Establishment of a Center of Excellence in Pancreatic Cancer at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. (Addendum IX-A-8)
- Creation of a master's degree in applied behavior analysis to be offered jointly by the University of Nebraska at Omaha and UNMC. (Addendum IX-A-9)
- Creation of a master's degree in biomechanics at UNO. (Addendum IX-A-11)
- Approval of third-party administrators for the university's medical, dental and pharmacy plans. (Addendum IX-B-5)
- Approval of the 2018-19 operating budgets for the University of Nebraska and the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture. (Addendums IX-B-6 and IX-B-7)
- Approval of a scope and budget change for the Early Childhood Education Center to be constructed on the UNK campus. (Addendum IX-B-10)
- Approval of a scope and budget change for the Wittson Hall renovation project at UNMC to create and name the Wigton Heritage Center. (Addendum IX-B-14)
- Approval of the program statement and budget for the UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation to be relocated to the former First Data building next to UNO's Scott Campus. (Addendum IX-B-15)