December 13, 2024 Meeting

When: 9:00 a.m.

Where: Board Room, 401 Hannah Administration Building

December 13, 2024 Audio Recording (59mb MP3 file)

Agenda (pdf)

  1. Call to Order
  2. Approval of Proposed Agenda
  3. Approval of Minutes from October 25, 2024
  4. President's Report
  5. Public Participation on Items Germane to the Agenda
  6. Gift, Grant and Contract Report
  7. Research Presentation
    • Speaker:  Professor Carmen Bradford, College of Music
    • Topic: Me and Count Basie
    • Speaker:  Professor Rodney Whitaker, University Distinguished Professor, College of Music
    • Topic:  Each One Teach
  8. Personnel Actions and Information Reports (Interim Provost Jeitschko)
  9. Committee Reports and Items Requiring Board Approval
    1. Committee on Budget and Finance (Trustees Pierce (Chair), Kelly, Tebay)
      1. FFE-Extension Farm Stress Project Fund
      2. FFE-Spartan Marching Band FFE
      3. Authorization to Purchase Property-CANR/AgBioResearch-Willoughby Road
      4. Spartan Stadium Improvements
      5. Revisions to BOT 607, Investment Policy
    2. Committee on Academic Affairs (Trustees Knake Jefferson (Chair), Byrum, Scott)
      1. Recission of BOT 801, Development Program-Centralized
      2. Revisions to the Bylaws for Academic Governance
      3. Revision to the MSU Board of Trustees Bylaws
    3. Committee on Audit, Risk and Compliance (Trustees Scott (Chair), Kelly, Pierce)
      1. Conflict of Interest-Approval of Contract Terms
    4. Committee on Student Life and Culture (Trustees Tebay (Chair), Byrum, Knake Jefferson)
      1. Committee Report
  10. Confirmation of the 2025 Board of Trustees Chair and Vice Chair
  11. Liaison Report, Chairperson's Report and Trustees' Comments
  12. Public Participation on Items Not Germane to the Agenda
  13. Adjourn