Media Advisory - Education Policy Committee to Meet January 16
January 10, 2001
Regents' Education Policy Committee to Meet January 16 at University of
Maryland, Baltimore
The University System of Maryland (USM) Board of Regents Committee on
Education Policy will meet in regular public session on Tuesday, January 16
beginning shortly after 9 a.m. in the Terrace Lounge of the Baltimore Student
Union at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. The Student Union is located at
621 West Lombard Street in Baltimore.
The committee will consider several agenda items, including the
following:
- Procedures for appealing to the Board of Regents decisions to terminate
tenured or tenure-track faculty members for cause.
- Annual report on campus crime.
- Report on current activities and future plans at the Maryland Sea Grant
Program. The report will be presented by Donald F. Boesch, president of the
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and Jonathan Kramer,
director of the Sea Grant program.
- Scholastic Aptitude Test results from the USM institutions.
- Financial enhancement requests from the USM's historically black
institutions, in keeping with the partnership agreement between the State of
Maryland and the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights. Bowie
State University, Coppin State College, and the University of Maryland Eastern
Shore will receive accelerated capital funding and enhanced operating funds
under the terms of the agreement.
- Revised policy on annual leave for faculty.
Full agenda and background information will be available at the meeting.
Sign language interpreters and/or other appropriate accommodations for eligible
individuals with disabilities will be provided upon request. Please call
301/445-2756 (voice) or 301/314-7683 (TTY/ITT) to make special
arrangements.
Contact:
Chris Hart
Phone: 301/445-2739
E-mail: chart@usmd.edu
