UA Board of Regents to meet Dec. 11-12 in Anchorage

December 10, 2014

Carla Browning

The University of Alaska Board of Regents will meet in the Lee Gorsuch Commons on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus Dec. 11-12, 2014, for the final business meeting of the calendar year. Members of the public will have the opportunity to testify before the regents at approximately 8:45 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, and 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 12.

Regents will address two new policies that affect the university community — an employee furlough policy and a systemwide smoke-free, tobacco-free policy. In addition, they will approve resolutions of appreciation for retiring Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research Dana Thomas and outgoing regents Timothy Brady, Fuller A. Cowell, Patricia Jacobson and Kirk Wickersham.

The agenda comprises regular university business, including governance reports, updates on state and federal relations, audit reports, construction reports and project change requests, and an update on theme 2 of the Shaping Alaska's Future initiative — forming productive partnerships with Alaska's schools. New board officers also will be elected.

UAA will present information on its Business Enterprise Institute during lunch on Dec. 11 and will host an evening reception at the new Alaska Airlines Center.

The meeting will be available as a live webstream at http://www.alaska.edu/oit/services/video-conferencing/streaming-conferences/.

Find the complete board agenda at http://www.boarddocs.com/ak/alaska/Board.nsf/Public.

For more information, contact Kristin DeSmith at 907-786-1263, kadesmith@uaa.alaska.edu.