Correct Success: Board of Trustees, committees meet

Board of Trustees, committees meet - UofSC News & Events

Posted on: November 15, 2020; Up to date on: November 15, 2020
By
Dana Woodward, ddhaesel@mailbox.sc.edu, 803-777-3691

The College of South Carolina Board of Trustees, in addition to a number of board committees,
met on Friday, Nov. 13. Right here’s what it’s essential to know from the assembly.

Monetary analyses report sturdy college place

At this primary assembly of the day, the Finance and Infrastructure Committee heard a
number of reviews detailing the present monetary standing of the college, as effectively
as forecasts and solutions for the long run. Mandy Kibler, College Controller,
reviewed the excellent annual monetary report, which revealed that constant
progress within the monetary place of the establishment over the past 5 years has helped
to climate the roughly $60 million impression of COVID-19.

The committee additionally acquired an summary of a report from college advisor accomplice
EAB to determine potential price financial savings and income producing alternatives that align
with the targets within the college’s strategic plan, together with rising the quantity
of underrepresented college students and our analysis capability. The method of figuring out
each cost-saving and income producing alternatives consists of UofSC school, employees
and directors.

Choices embrace increasing on-line packages to non-traditional college students, rising high-demand
diploma packages and lowering administrative prices. The Board of Trustees was briefed
on the work however no ultimate choice has been made.

Full board points approvals

As a part of a known as assembly, the board accepted quite a lot of proposals:

A blanket approval for Athletics to barter constitution flights for the 2021 season
males’s and girls’s basketball away video games
An extension and growth of an settlement between Scholar Well being Companies and Cepheid
for diagnostic checks and tools
An prolonged contract with South Carolina Scholar Housing Lease Firm, LLC for 700
beds in YOUnion for College Housing to make use of for incoming college students
Two reward naming alternatives, one within the School of Data and Communications
and one within the Faculty of Medication Columbia
The switch of a one-third acre parcel of land on Catawba Avenue from the Metropolis of
Columbia
The granting of non permanent development easements and a 50-year land easement to the
Metropolis of Columbia for sewer line enhancements

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