Okay. I call this meeting to order and ask the secretary to please call the roll. Governor Atkinson is our new governor Barnhill Governor his widow, Governor Daphne, here, Governor Kelly's Governor Kumar, Governor land here,
can Governor stand here A quorum is present?
Yep. Our first order of business is the public comment, and a really important part of every meeting of the Board of Governors. We welcome comments from our students and faculty and staff and other members of our Wayne State community and members of the general public. Your comments helped to enhance the understanding of this board and contribute to our decision making. We may ask that question or seek clarification from speakers if needed. Otherwise, please know that even if discussion doesn't occur here, we are listening. We're reading your materials and taking them into consideration. The Secretary receives his team request to address the board during the public comment. Given the number of speakers we will be adhering quite strictly to the three minute three minute time limit Excuse me. At first statements a clock has been provided to let you know how much time remains. When the time has elapsed, the microphone will mute and we will move on to the next speaker. So let me start with I think the first speaker is Rida Khan.
Greetings everyone. I want to begin with a statement for my Palestinian siblings. To be Palestinian is to no loss in all of its forms. To be too familiar with grief. It is to watch your people be slaughtered in ways you couldn't even imagine right in front of your eyes. And the whole world turns its back on you including Wayne State's Board of Governors. This is who was only a year and a half years old. He was seriously injured in Israeli bombardment on VESA he lost nine of his family members because he didn't and parts of his tongue. He has 200 stitches on his face with no anesthesia for survived he would need proper care abroad as all of the hospitals in the USA have been bombed. This is Sandra who is seven years old. She fled with her family to Elsa as it was designated safe. But on February 12, her family was attacked by Israeli missiles, missiles made by companies that this university investment This is Sidra after Israel bombed her home, her body flew and he came attached to the wall and after the float leaving her in pieces and her body dismembered. This has been stuck in a car after five per family members were killed, surrounded by Israeli tanks and soldiers. This six year old girl called the emergency line and begged for her life. During the call however, screams could be heard as Israeli military tanks crushed the car she was in many days past with no updates on pins and her family on February 10 For decomposing body was found as well as the bodies of the paramedics who tried to rescue her. This is Yesod is I was born with a rare genetic disease and died of malnutrition after being deprived of food and treatment due to Israel siege on Gaza. Israel is depriving over 2 million people in the USA of food, water and basic necessities. This is supported by the investments and inaction of Wayne State University. The list goes on and on to over 13,000 murdered and by the hands of Israel, the United States and Wayne State University's investments. I bring these cases to you in an attempt to humanize our cause and fully redirect your attention towards the reason divestment from more profit and companies is required. I say it as a refusal of the obfuscation of responsibility that is taking place on this campus and campuses across the country where media University admins and police are partnering to center an irrelevant discussion on free speech and student activism. What is actually happening across the country is a fully popular concrete demands of divestment. I refuse the other obfuscation of labeling our movements and demands as anti semitic or violence. You are not allowed to commend my efforts and classify and tokenize past anti war movements or this one. As a board you have an opportunity today to consider becoming a popular university for this country and the world by acknowledging a genocide and refusing to partake. The genocide relies heavily on the small cogs of the larger machine like this university. All foreign politics are American politics and Wayne State politics unless you actively choose to make that untrue.
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thank you for waiting. Hi, my name is Mohan, first generation Palestinian American. I'm also a Wednesday alum and I graduated in 2023. Today I want to talk about the resolution to diverse problem for manufacturing companies, as it was passed by Senate on November 2 2023. I wanted to note that this is actually a second time it may state that the Student Senate has passed a divestment resolution from what happened companies as it has also been passed in 2003. This issue has always been a concern in the student body and needs to end that way. Why does a public university in the United States need to be involved in aiding the murder and displacement of Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank, investing in manufacturers like Boeing and Lockheed Martin is helping fund the ongoing genocide because of Palestine. It has been 202 days, approximately 134,000 184 have been killed. 77,000 143 have been injured and more than 8000 are missing. How many more deaths, how many more people have to be displaced? How many more protests until you finally hear what your student body wants. We don't want to be complicit in this. As a graduate, I would be proud to be a part of the university that stood on the right side of history. University has no business being involved in the destruction of a company and people overseas pull investments from these companies by changing the investment portfolio. Now, I also wanted to address that the student senate as hosel has also passed the police resolution recently. And we have yet to hear that we demand our voices to be heard. What's the point of having a student senate if you're just going to ignore what they say? Thank you.
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Yes, please go ahead. Thank you. Are you convinced that Palestinians and Arabs are worthy of your humanity? We brought you the facts and the evidence you need to vote yes on this resolution. But since October 7, the school has done nothing to show us the the lives of Palestinians are meaningless that Palestinian blood is cheaper than your blood that you don't care about your student body. More specifically, you don't actually listen to your students of color. Let it be known that we don't care how many jobbies you put on your brochure, or how many people have darker shades, skin color that you put on your websites we and other students are we at SAP and other students are not props for you to show how diverse and inclusive your school is, while simultaneously disregarding all that we have demanded of you. Wayne State has the opportunity to be a trailblazer and a leading example for practicing global justice by divesting the numbers in Kazaa are increasing day by day. And we have we have now surpassed 33,000 people the death toll is not slowing down because institutions like this one fail to use their power will consent to it and economic leverage your words and statements matter. Palestinians are telling you would matters and that this that we need to come together to stop ethnic cleansing and occupation, claiming that doing these things and just passing a sequel or statement. Even though the city of Detroit, our city that we are in now was one of the first major cities to call for divestment is not impactful is to simply claim that you're supporting the suppression of democracy and that is far from the truth. My family, my family was slaughtered in the Holocaust. And this if this university had the same attitude, then you wouldn't say it's controversial, and that it could hurt people's feelings. If we denounce Nazi ism, it is shameful. It is shameful to look at the face of a genocide and to say if we had an opinion it could harm people's feelings. Our commands are very simple and we have made them public. Our demands are as follows begin by drawing withdrawing investments from companies listed in the BDS portfolio, create an ethical Investment Committee and put a divestment resolution meeting on a boat and publicly discuss it to the Board of Governors to also respond to the students that have passed police resolution as members to the public, we have made the power to vote, or we have the power to vote the blg out. And we know that we also have the power to cut alumni funding to this university. What I would clearly say is you all have blood drenched on your hands. And as the first prime minister of Israel said, the old will die and the young will forget, but we have not forgotten and we are still here fighting and we will make sure that happens for the next generation and the generation after that. And there will be a day when Palestine is free from the river to the sea, and every oppressive regime will eventually fall. My question is, do you believe if you say Believe in popper channels of discourse, how can we go on answered at best or refused and denounced at worse will Wayne State be on the right side of history or when you go down disgraceful, corrupted and go down as a pro genocide institution that have the power to do something but refuse to do so just like those who refuse to condemn apartheid and just like those who refuse to condemn Nazism Thank you.
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Currently, Wayne State is investing in companies that are complicit in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, including Boeing General Dynamics L three Harris technologies, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. divestment is not a new concept. Student organizations, institutions, companies and more across Michigan and the nation are talking about divestment with universities in California taking the lead University of California Davis recently passed a bill that prevents any of the $20 million budget from being spent on companies complicit in the occupation and genocide of Palestinians from McDonald's to save right to Chevron, none of their student fees that from universities operation will be used to financially support the Zionist entity. University of California Riverside also recently divested over $1 million, with a unanimous vote of 15 to zero. These are the universities that are courageous enough not to invest in companies that are complicit in Zionist violence, to not profit off of warming factoring companies and be the trigger that bombs hospitals and schools in Gaza. These are the steps Wayne State should be taking. This is the future of our university. Our students Senate passed the divestment resolution in 2003. And then again in 2023. And just recently, in 2024, they passed a police resolution to withdraw associations and partnerships between the Wayne State University Police Department and the Israeli government. Since the student senate is the bridge for and representatives of the students and has been more than supportive of this resolution, then the only thing stopping this resolution from passing is the board of governors who are clearly not taking into consideration what your student body is advocating for. You do not have to be Arab or Palestinian to care about these issues are stand up for their rights. Nor do you have to be white to uphold white supremacy. Representation won't free us from the Zionist regime. These past couple of days. The first Arab president at Columbia University, met with NYCs black mayor and NYPD is first Latino commissioner to shut down the Palestinian student movement and are facilitating the genocide in Gaza to continue the whole world both Palestine everything and more. Thank you
Pauline Honda.
Hello. For the past six months we've seen through our phones and undeniable amount of horror, pain and devastation in Beza. Since October, more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel with many deaths caused by us made and funded weapons. Wayne State University funds many of these weapons manufacturers, including but not limited to the Boeing Company and Lockheed Martin. The weapons from these manufacturers in particular have been the root of international human rights violations against innocent civilians. To give context on October 10 2023, a home in Dead al Bella who was struck by a 2000 pound bomb with a datum guidance kit made by the Boeing Company 21 members of the Amazon family were killed. One month later Hellfire missiles created by Lockheed Martin hit Al Shifa Hospital killing at least six people. These missiles do not explode but instead cut through their target with sharp blades leaving people decapitated. These horrors are ongoing, and we need our school to do something about it. It is especially insulting there's hold such a large Arab population. Many of us Palestinian ourselves has investments with these companies to begin with. We demand that we say University divest from all weapons manufacturers. Today's students from all across the country at Columbia University University of Michigan, Harvard and 40 other universities are protesting against their schools investments in weapons manufacturers. Instead of listening and attempting to understand the students who are peacefully protesting. We have school sending local police to violently arrest their own students and professors and threatening the use of the National Guard. We've seen the video of Emory University professor Carolyn Fullman being pushed on the concrete by police. We've seen the videos of police arresting students at Ohio State University who are in the middle of a prayer service. We've seen the University of Southern California ban their valedictorian from speaking at graduation because of her support for Palestine. Our American universities should not turn away from students who are studying genocide, and professors who are teaching their ethics courses. Our generation is full of educated individuals who have a passion for what we are learning and who know when to apply those studies into the current day. Next Saturday marks 54 years since the members of the National Guard shot 13 Students killing for at Kent State University for protesting against US involvement in Vietnam. Rather than turning to violence, the school should have instead heard their students out and took the time to understand the outrage. Wayne State University should follow that sentiment by listening to the students here today, pushing for a free and safe Palestine at one of the most crucial times by divesting from all weapons manufacturing companies. Thank you.
My name is cinema moving on the president of Students for Justice Palestine here on Wednesday. Just two days ago, Maimunah Maimunah for Asha was martyred and occupied Yvonne in the West Bank. I want to put something in perspective here. She was a college student just like you and I. She had ambitions just like you and I. Her goal was to be a nurse one day and serve a community which is a common goal like us. The investments that this university University makes to improve our livelihoods and our educational journeys lead to the demise of the people just like us in Palestine, she deserved to live her dream as a nurse and give back to her community. So I asked what difference is there between Maimunah and any other college student, I too want to be a nurse and get back to my community. I also am from the same city as her and Hadid Palestine. The difference is that she's a Palestinian living under an occupation that sole purpose is to erase your history, her lineage and her total existence. This is a reality of Palestinians have been ethnically cleanse for over 76 years. I could have had the same fate as many women if I'd stayed living in a cutting these people in Gaza and Palestine are people that look like me. They look like your students. There are siblings, parents, uncles, cousins and family. So to the Wayne State Board of Governors who fund this genocide and how the finger on the trigger as well. Do you see me as a threat or a terrorist? Is my blood cheaper than your blood? How about your other Palestinian Wednesday warriors? Do you see them as people that are backwards and deserve to be treated like animals? While Israel bombs Wayne State pays, you have just as much responsibility to 33,000 lives lost as much as anyone this close divest. Thank you.
Thank you for hearing us today. My name is Dr. Laila Sachi. I am an honors faculty here at Wayne State, but I don't, I'm not here representing the College. I'm here because my mother is a wife. I'm a Muslim. I'm Iranian, and Canadian, and a philosopher. I'm all of these things and all of these identities, but I refuse to become American. I refuse, even though I'm a resident alien, even though I pay my taxes, even though I benefit from all the services and all the opportunities that this country provides. Let's, but I'm here standing before you today, because also, as a historian, I know that there is no empire, too big to fall. And I wonder, and I think everyone in this room should wonder who is watching right now, who is watching over 30,000 innocent people being slaughtered. I'm telling you, as a historian, that in 1984, Osama bin Laden watch as southern Lebanon was bombed by Israel, and was bombed using American jets and fighters and bombs. He said, in his own words, that this was a motivating force for him to attack the United States on September 11. So I asked you again, who is watching, who is watching as we are complicit in this genocide, who is watching as we are complicit in this ethnic cleansing, who is watching, because our united humanity entails that we do something about this. Our united humanity entails that if we want freedom, we need to work for the freedom of others. We cannot be free. We cannot be liberated until everyone's free. Thank you.
Hello, Board of Governors. My name is Thomas padroni, and I'm an Associate Professor in the College of Education. We the faculty whose names will follow express our full support for students sign resolution 232403, the divestment resolution and call on the board of governors to act in accordance and have to let you know that I received 30 more names. So I now have 80 And I could read 50 In three minutes, I'm going to do my best. If any of these people are here there are 40 to 50 people out on the hallway right now. Some of them in scrubs, some of them doctors with their lab coats on from the School of Medicine. But if you are here, please do stand and remain standing until I'm done with the list. Myself obviously I'll keep seeing them. Patricia McCormick communications. David Goldberg African American Studies David Foster fair sociology Sharif Bernstein only African American Studies vs. Prince African American Studies, Jennifer shared and most modern classical languages. Leila Sachi read Honors College own Java modern classical languages, Serena Wilcox read Honors College, Louisa contatto modern classical languages, Kevin machine read Honors College, Eugenia PCLs modern classical languages Marilyn Rasheed, modern classical languages, Naveen Barnea, African American Studies, Dali tittle modern classical languages and cultures Mark Winslow philosophy and the lender communication ceremony Newton political science Brian Victor Megan Hicks and kiss Valentin all social work in South Mohammed pharmacy, Jonathan flatly English el Kaufmann modern classical languages Julius the communication Simon Mohammed our history and design David Pitts pharmacy, Aaron Madden Family Medicine public health services Randall commissar as Pharmaceutical Sciences Ronald brown sociology Danielle Obear art art history designed Steven severe English as Heidi Godfrey sociology, Zara ammaji D art or history and design Munna Tarr a political science Adrian Hatfield, art art history and design. Josephine promote our history in design Christian Bozeman history, Kara Marie young art or history and design. Kyle Sharkey painting and drawing James Bucha a lot of read Honors College Jose quedo history Latinx studies Silvia Georgine, modern classical language and culture Cathy Ulrich English, Lisa's a winter's African American studies and English, Shannon Hibbard music Juan Carlos Rodriguez our history and design Fatima dB, modern classical languages and culture as Paulette white Inclusive Education College of Education nutshot Imran he's in the hall in his white coat, internal medicine. And most of these are from College of the School of Medicine. How do you decide? More half hour Ashkar? Gaza con LaTonya real Jones Jeremy Nomi apara Nora eddine rather, bow our word. Zeinab Ahmed from the liberal arts class. I'm Eric ball color Asha Albini elaphe dar or anon saloon shall bear Al Bashir Hammoud Zain Imam Zaman or a cabana Adrian Hatfield Arafat current health buzzy MD Ali salami, we need to go to Tarik Camilla Alexander Chanel, amorous Akari Ismail Mohammed well Taha Heba as a Ali, all from the Cutlass from the President. Thank you very much. Our
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Go ahead, thank you. Good afternoon amazonica rather proud alumni of Wayne State University. For those old heads in the room, my teeth count. proud alumni of Chicano Studies 1980, along with criminal justice, and also the Master of Arts, industrial relations 1992. I'm proud to have been part of the movements here at Wayne State. And of course, most of us have goodwill had been involved in the South Africa, anti apartheid movement. And we know how important BDS was to that movement. It was essential to that will believe it did take a long time. I'm really happy to be here in support of the students Senate's resolution for divestment today. There isn't a lot that any one person can do. But when you have any control of money, the way President Biden has right now and the Congress has right now and you allow it to be used to destroy, then people who have good will have to stand up. Sometimes they take their own lives in their own hands. Sometimes the police will harass them for that sometimes they will lose their jobs. The students here took the greater risk than anybody and I really am proud to stand with them. And I really hope that those of you who can make this decision to take the money away from genocide, you can do that. You have every possibility of doing it. Imagine being able to do that and not doing it imagine being able to say no, I won't kill children no I will not destroy a people in deciding that to do that. Thank you
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This is Amanda Rahim in the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, a dramatic level but I gotta Peace be upon you all. There's no universities left in here. Ours is still standing and functioning. Not only that our university funded this systematic destruction of all universities in the USA. I am an alumna of Wayne. I thought after I graduate a move on and and never come back here. Yeah, here I am. Back in front of you pleading to stop funding the genocide of my people. How do you expect me to leave all of this behind? Why students have created is not a campaign, not a field once you're on there, not a to rally each semester type of situation. This is a movement or divestment movement that will never die until you fully divest. You know that it's fine as required. And it's a Friday, you look around, students are showing up like big meetings have never seen before. They are standing up for their right to have a say in the university's investments that they pay for. As a collective voice of students, alumni, faculty and committee members. We say divest from all while manufacturing companies switch your portfolio to a more ethical one, create a subcommittee under the Financial Committee and invite students at the table. And in the power invested in us as alumni. We promise you to mobilize and organize to cut alumni funding off this university. And we will also create a high school campaign to educate the public and why they should not enroll in my State University, the University the funds genocide, and when time comes to vote for big members, we will remember this meeting your complicity and how you ignored our Please, I won't mention in America innocent civilians killed by Israeli illegal airstrikes. I will mentioned that Americans and husbands killed from starvation, close key serious and sickness. I tried that before when I was a student, I look at where I'm at now, back here, luxury adults, the genocide is bad, and we shouldn't fund it. And those who say we'll wait until there's a height of bills you remember, things may change, then what I say on our faces in high places are not going to save us. You don't need to be white to uphold white supremacy values. Just look at the height of President at Columbia University. That is fulfilling freedom of speech, not divesting, suspending students and everything that is speaking up. So let's make history together and be the first Michigan University to divest from war and invest in its community. Let history books write down what happens today and which side you took humanity or genocide
so I go, my name is Nana cloudy, a sophomore studying Environmental Science in political science. In pursuit of sustainably healing society is core to fix the root of things such as the framework of this school that allows tolerance of blatant ignorance and gaslighting from so called educated and professional academics. We see its loopholes, and criminal activity. Its complicity and participation in genocidal activity complicit in participating in murdering 30 resizing and counting Palestinians the most well documented genocide in history happening right now Wayne State cannot boast about their diversity and refuse to reflect the values of who make the school what it is. We love to put Muslim woman and people of color on his website, ignore them and their concerns. On top of the intense emotional turmoil affecting my studies in my responsibilities, and surely my peers as well, these past few months, I cannot I come to class knowing my tuition funds, genocide, and Wayne State proudly not batting an eye. I've experienced Islamophobia and police harassment on this campus. So I don't just feel unsafe on this campus because of the psychological racist, elitist mental gymnastics you project in your emails, but also physical and safety. And now the recent Student Senate Resolution and mansion has passed. And we want you guys to take that seriously. Reflect on your roles, and what they mean, not only at a local scale, but at a global scale. Because indeed, we are connected. And we you know that you know that. And indeed, you all in this room could have been the ones hiding from the maniac genocidal racist snipers and bombers instead of the innocent men and women and children in Gaza. It could have been us, it can be us, it can be you. And you know that disrupting all the things in your life that you were so sure would not waver in plant can be done in seconds. Because not too far away. Maybe University deemed it to be a rational opportunity to pursue the opportunity to invest in humanity to invest in murdering and oppressing other children and women and men because hey, what's not us? Is that rational. Your inhumane actions clearly speak louder than your words. Together, let's use a privilege and follow through when we say we want equality including freedom. And all of those amazing words for all reflect why you have your leadership role is your why is simply your interest or is it the collective as you say we've community communicated our concerns this past several months in many ways, we will not ignore the apathy and normalization of injustice. We soon received through the buzzwords in the fields you guys try to put up our persistence will stay and it will only grow and we will only become better at playing our roles for liberating not only the Palestinians but all whom are addressed, especially to students at the university, especially in Detroit dropped the act. Look at us in the eyes and divest now.
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so my name is Bianca Garcia, thank you for having me speak. As Israel continues its genocidal siege on Palestine, people around the world watch in horror. As a Jew myself, I reject and condemn the genocide being carried out in my name. For generations, my own family hid their Jewish identity and will come into the United States if you're a violent anti semitism in order to integrate into white supremacy. This I've come to understand my Jewish identity and embody Jewish values. Israel has made me more visible than ever as a Jew in the worst way possible, conducting mass murder and around just war crimes in my name. The Israel lobby and, and Zionist institutions alleging to support Jewish people in the US compel our communities towards an ideology of violent settler colonialism and conflate it with our culture and with our face. Wayne State University is funded by student and taxpayer dollars and invest our money toward the bombardment of Palestinians and the continued occupation and apartheid in Israel. Wayne State University's investments are funding the mass murder of Palestinians once again supporting war crimes in my name, I guess my wishes as a public research university with an emphasis on dei Wayne State continues to subvert and suppress the voices of not only Palestinian students, but Jewish students and many more students who are allies to the Palestinian cause. If nothing else, the decision for Wayne State University to divest is a decision toward neutrality on the issue. There are a series of roadmaps for divestment that can be carried out and with many schools across the country divesting a multitude of examples or popping up the availability of customizable investment strategies means Wayne State can divest from certain industries and individual companies and fill in the gaps in our portfolio. Wayne State should follow suit with the wishes of the students on the student set and divest like they voted for months ago. If nothing else, divestment is a vote for neutrality on the issue for disambiguating anti Zionism and anti semitism, for Jewish safety and for being on the right side of history. Diverse now.
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Good afternoon. I'm Danielle bear. I'm speaking in a different topic. But I'm president of the Wayne academic union. I'm here today with a number of my union comrades. If everyone is here with welcome, please stand if you're not already standing. We also have 30 people outside we're not able to get into the room. Mostly so most people couldn't get seats. Last month, we presented our core demands which include wage increases for faculty and academic staff that reflect the rising cost of living, a flexible work policy and an emergency program to address housing insecurity for our students. Right now we're in bargaining and I came here today to talk about our salaries. But before I do that, I do have to comment on briefly on what's happening around the country this week. Faculty everywhere are stepping up to defend their students as members of the AAUP, the American Association of University Professors, we condemn in the strongest possible terms the crackdowns on peaceful dissent occurring this week at UC campuses nationwide at Columbia, at Ohio University and the broader attacks on academic freedom students, staff and faculty rights. So we care about Wayne State. As faculty and academic staff, we care about our students. We understand the transformative power of education. Many of the people in this room are students. They're not enrollment numbers to us. But over the last three years, our faculty and academic staff have taken a big hit. When we settled our last contract. We were still dealing with COVID the university's finances were uncertain. And because we will need to be more strong we ratified a contract with no raise in the first year and minimal increases over the next two years. These later then President Emeryville centered around it and now To 2% increase to Administrator salaries, then inflation went way up. Everything got a lot more expensive energy, food, goods and services and we lost ground in real dollars. We experienced tickets. We're told over and over again that Wayne State has no money. But we know this is not true. We know that the amount of money spent on administrator salaries Shut up $16.8 million since 2021, nearly four times the amount that went toward the 1700 faculty and academic staff salary, salaries of those of our bargaining unit. We also know that Moody's ratings corporation that does risk analysis on institution gave weights data, solid bond rating of AAA three, and we just heard this morning at the budget committee meetings that the university had a surplus of $93 million last year. So as we move into negotiating economics, I'm going to quote UAW president champagne in this union, the members are the highest authority. We are done losing ground and we are done making sacrifices. We want a contract or faculty, staff and students are valued, and our members are going to vote on the contract and will decide when you've reached that point.
Thank you very much.
The public comment. Our next item of business is the approval of the consent agenda. I asked for a motion that the Board of Governors approve the consent agenda as presented. Included in Genda items are the following the approval of the official proceedings March 6 2020, for the regular for establishment of a new program for the occupational therapy, doctoral program, medical affairs, this continuance of the undergraduate and graduate certificates and applied behavior analysis, and the transfer from the contingency reserve in our budget and finance committee may have a motion. Move. So support is Governor land you'll be support of all in favor. Aye opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Next before the board are the personnel recommendations submitted by Provost llevo. The action requested is as follows. I asked her a motion that the Board of Governors approve the personnel recommendations for tenure promotion to full professor and administrative appointments other than those separately submitted. May I have a motion? Is there support support? All in favor? Abstentions. I believe the motion carries. Okay, to go on to the faculty recognition awards. Each year at the board looks forward to the opportunity to recognize the recipients of the faculty recognition awards. At this time the Board recognizes members of the university faculty who have made extraordinary contributions to scholarship in the preceding year and who have been chosen for this award by a committee of their peers. I'd like to begin by asking Governor Mankato to join me in at the front of the tables and to ask Governor Barnhill to come forward to present the award to Professor Mike Goodman of The Center for Molecular Medicine in the School of Medicine with Governor Barnhill and Professor Herman please join us Where are we going okay.
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State Board of Governors you have failed to put divestment on the agenda you have failed to reach a resolution on the agenda. So we are taking this meeting and making you here our demands we have publicized we have made it no we have said we want an apology from the police who arrest us we want an immediate response from the Board of Governors to accept that our beliefs will no longer be trained and designed to be by those who are committing genocide. We have said diverse and we need diverse now how can we believe the proper channels when you need to put divestment on the agenda when you police accountability on the agenda? How are we supposed to believe though so we say power star power power
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to recognize our faculty. Next I invite Governor Kelly to present the award to Professor Daniel Isakson of the Department of Mathematics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Kellyanne Professor, please come forward.
Board of Governors recognizes Daniel, professor in Department of Mathematics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, stable chromatography group of spheres dimensioned zero to 90 published in mathematics last year. Professor Isaacson and his colleagues, their work is the most significant advancement in modern topology in the last 50 years. In addition to the tremendous advancements in knowledge, Professor Isaacson created an infrastructure to engage colleagues and students in this area of study to develop the computational philosophy. Research an online community is accept his success in building community and encouraging collaboration. Professor Isaacson's advancements in technology coupled with these efforts to engage in building community with evidence, the professor ICT is committed to the pursuit of learning and scientific study.
Please Daniel Isakson of his contributions to Wayne State University.
Next time by Governor Gaffney to present the award to Professor Michelle Jacobson, the Department of Sociology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Governor Gaffney and percent Professor Jacobs Excuse me, please come follow.
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Board of Governors recognizes the shell Jacobs, associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Carla College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. With the publication of indigenous memory, urban reality stories of American Indian relocation and reclamation, this seminal piece on race and identity is increasingly timely, as Americans continue to struggle with our founding myths about democracy, freedom, sociological research, wanting to conquest and enslavement as key factors that lead to American wealth and global hegemony. In doing so, actor Jacobs tells a story about the importance of fast position, and relatedly how one's history of living on or off reservations, shapes relocators Reclaimers understanding of in did meity. Science guys overall, does an excellent job of discussing how Native people understand who has the right to claim authentic indigenous identities and more generally, our racial group members define what it means to be part of their group. The Board of Governors is pleased to recognize Associate Professor Michelle Jacobs for her contributions to Wayne State University, Department of Sociology and let me add thank you for making us look.
Next, to Professor Daniel cash in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, with Governor Kumar and Professor Kashian, please come forward
so, the Board of Governors recognizes Daniel cation professor in the Department of Biological Sciences College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, but the publication of forest ecology fifth edition is that book, the first edition of which was published in 1964 is one of the most important sources for students, academics, and forest practitioners to gain information about climate change, invasive species, and ecological sustainability by always important is text has become increasingly increasingly so over the decades as the United States and other highly industrialized nations attempt to balance economic growth, largely powered by fossil fuel energy with a color ecological sustainability. In addition to the thoroughness with which he examined these complex topics, Professor Daniel Kashin and aptly made his work those new to the field and those who have done research and worked in the field for years. In doing so, his seminal work undoubtedly inspires undergraduates and graduate students to pursue careers in forest ecology contributes to furthering academic rigor in the field, and provides important guides for ecological practitioners. The Board of Governors is pleased to recognize Professor Daniel cation for his contributions to Wayne State University and the Department of Biological Sciences. And thank you for your great work.
Last week, Governor Stan Kado to present the award to Professor kadaga Williams of the Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor Williams is unfortunately unable to attend today's meeting. in her stead Professor Eric Ashe, the chair of the Department of History will accept your professor asked, Will you please come forward? The
Board of Governors recognizes that Professor in the Department of History, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, from the publication of I saw them coming, the history of terror and survival in the war within the present waves as long as the for the National Book Award in the nonfiction category. The book looks at the violence following the Civil War from a social aspect. It focuses on the long lasting trauma resulting from the white supremacist violence inflicted on black families. This book challenges the idea that reconstruction failed. Instead, using the experience of black families and evidence how I structured my wife services at the federal government, I'm going to bring the perpetrators to account. This book is a major contribution to African American History and US history generally, the Board of Governors is pleased to recognize Professor Williams for the contribution Wayne State University and the Department of.
God is, I think Washington, keeping an eye on that American experience.
on behalf of the Board of Governors, let me reiterate how proud we are of the award winners and how much we appreciate their important contributions to their respective disciplines, to the academic profession and to our university. As we move to the remainder of the agenda for this afternoon's board meeting, we welcome anyone who wishes to stay through the business waiting and we understand I don't know why. Okay, I'm gonna go ahead. I'm just in the interest of time, I'm just gonna pick up one slide, if you would, can you? Let's see, where's my little thing here? That one, this is the most important part of the President's Report. I would like to personally congratulate she's not here. I see everyone. Nine. She's not here. Okay. Well, I will tell the story in the best way that I can. For Deacon crosses here. Wonderful. So I'll tell a little bit of that I'll welcome him to come join us. So first of all, congratulations to adore our first Truman Scholar. The Truman scholars, for those of you who don't know, is probably one of the most prestigious national honorific that marks both top tier students as well as top tier academics. A door turns on the left you see when we welcomed her with a prize, but unfortunately, she was home sick. So we called her on the phone and you see that there and then you see the lovely picture and all her accomplishments. She joins other honorifics here at Wayne State, whether it's our two Goldwater scholars or folks who received Gilman Scholarships, and we are just so proud of both our students as well as our faculty. And we wanted to make sure and take this
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on behalf and tell the story because I see Patricia here too, who was her mentor, and I think Lisa, please, the floor is yours for a
minute. Midori is one of the most remarkable students that I've ever met. But in a crew of absolutely remarkable students. And in the last few years that the ofs fellowships has been in existence, and I want to thank Decker as the dean and others for helping him make that possible. And for the president for really putting the energy behind it. We have managed to identify, encourage, mentor, and build students up to the point that they know that they can apply for these and that they can win that we have as many awards students can win these major awards as any university in the state in this country. But we're the only current scholarship from Michigan this year last year.
Just the first term and of many are chiefly one, the Marshall last year is hopefully the first of May, our Goldwater's are only the second time we've ever gotten our Fulbright to continue to win our domains and our CLS and all of the other scholarships. So we're gonna thank everybody for their support. When you find bright students when you see that spark, tell us office of fellowships at Wayne. And we will help them go further with this because that's where we need them to go as a planet. And as University. Thank you very much.
Kevin left out as the important role that Kevin actually at the university, we are so grateful for your work and the impact that you're having on our students because these scholarships opened up so many opportunities that again, take them to a different place than where they started. So thank you And now I will turn it over to Provost claypot to talk a little bit about our outreach and engagement area of our strategic plan.
So as we've said earlier, this is the second meeting, where we will focus on the development of a balanced scorecard by presenting to you metrics related to elements of the student, the strategic plan. And this meeting, we focus on the Outreach and Engagement focus area, which crosses a number of units on campus. And so we're going to hear today from Vice President exiting from Vice President Obasi and from Vice President Stabler, who will tell us about metrics related to their areas and Wayne success in efforts at outreach and engagement across a number of sectors.
Today, as Provost table mentioned, we'll be focusing on the third pillar of teacher engagement. Specifically the two goals leading and expanding the economic growth and prosperity of the further Michigan deepening our engagement to Detroit, Michigan business partners to address the challenges of discovery innovation, talent and workforce, pipeline development, and strengthening our efforts as an engine of social mobility. We will share with you the metrics that the already tracking and metrics that we are creating to measure our progress over time and in comparison to nationally publicly available benchmarks and peer institutions and spheres during economic mobility, economic partnerships, and growth and innovation. First economic mobility. For these metrics we will use we are using third way economic mobility index, which uses publicly available data from the college scorecard and the Census Bureau of American Community Survey. So these endorses specifically in over these metrics. You heard this morning from our faculty and students about their experiences that we are providing to our students and how we are preparing them to launch their careers and set them on a course of success to our socio economic mobility. This ties directly to a key metric on which the university is focused, and that is student economic equality. We are proud to be the leading institution in the state for economic mobility. As I mentioned earlier, we are tracking our success in this area through the third wave economic mobility Index, which measures the ability of individuals, individual individual families to move between income or wealth brackets over time and within a particular society or economy. So when the EMI was first started, we are we are currently at 24.1% When we were at 38.7%, that that when we first started, so there's about two years of data so far. So this is a new scorecard. So there was a change in the calculation of the index from the median salary from the mean salary to the median salary, that's what caused this drop in, in the in the percentage the price to earnings. The price to earnings premium designed for low income students, this shows how long it will take students from families earning $30,000 dollars or less per year to recoup the cost of the investment of obtaining the degree so basically how long it takes to recoup the cost of their investment and in earning that credential. So that for the for the back we are at the viewer, the mean was 55 the salary mean was 55%, it dropped to 45%. We were at 87.4% in our 36%. We are with even with this change, we are fitting as a tier one institution when it comes to social mobility, then what Yes, that's a really important aspect. Here this slide shows how we ranked compared to our peers, we are in a base composition and dealing in several volunteers on several of these metrics. We expect to continue to improve our position as the impact of our investments in programs like the tuition guarantee and the college to career will both decrease student that and impact the median income after graduation those are investments that were happening because this this is these metrics are lagging two years. So eventually we will be improving even better than where we are today.
Now this is again this is this is where we are. This is our this This slide shows how we are the calculation has changed
For all of our peers, not just for us, and you will notice that some peers have dropped more than one or two positions, we are still remain still at a rank in the top rank when it comes to social media. For their median total median total debt after graduation this, the median community federal debt of undergraduate borrower borrowers who graduated this this figure into only federal loans, and for which we have only 42% of our students have taken federal loans. So that's something to keep to keep in mind, this is not all of the data they they take, this is just the federal that, and this area, cspr 21.5% guarantee and this, really, the goal is to keep pushing to increase that and investments, like I said, with the tuition guarantee will will impact that number positively for our students over time. This brings us that brings us back to where we started with the example from this morning. This our goal is to feel the university's prosperity agenda and initiatives like college to career are are one of the university's outreach and engagement tools designed to achieve the objectives and goals and our moment of time strategic plan. So these are all of these things are really config continuing to contribute to our efforts and to continue to push the university forward and make it possible and positive for our students and their experiences here. Now we're going to switch to my colleagues here to talk about partnerships, community partnerships. Your
thanks, Ahmadi. And good afternoon, Governor, governor's, as Provost Provost said at the outset, this aspect is pillar of our strategic partnership cuts across the university in different ways. There's no you know, it's not as simple as this is only in this person's purview. And as a result, we're going to try to tag team this. And that's going to lead to a little bit of gap here and there a little bit of overlap here, that's sometimes let me the sharp elbow or two, maybe even on the side. We're gonna try to do the rest of the presentation that way you can to the point of collaborating within individual slots. So bear with us, as we do this, we're going to, we're committed to working together as a team to make sure that the metrics are all moving in the right direction. And we hope to demonstrate that here, metrics. The President is a leader after my own heart, she's a firm believer that we will have metrics that are replicable, that are consistent, that are publicly available. And that is wonderful in lots of ways, but also demonstrates some difficulties, because especially in the community partnerships and economic impact, we we do some things that other folks don't do. And so they don't report on them either publicly, or maybe they don't even, you know, care about some of them. So you hear us talk about the $2.6 billion economic impact that Wayne State has. That's an important thing. It is a real econometric data point. But our peers don't necessarily calculate that or county by county, you'll hear about the 6000 businesses that tech town has helped over the last 20 years to raise $400 million. And universities don't count do that, or counted or reported. So a lot of the metrics that you'll see here are around things that they do calculate and do count. So this case, this slide has a lot of the research partnerships, both from you know, for profits and community partners in nonprofits, state and local government, that folks do have to report on. And then of course, our current community community engaged by suffocation, which is a binary yes or no, do you have it? And yes, we are a very engaged university. From that perspective. Here's an example of me handing it off to Mike.
Awesome. And I think it's oftentimes good to put a story and a face to the initiative. And so we thought it might be good to highlight some of the work that Dr. Harry Thompson is doing in the space of health equity, and specifically a partnership that came about with CVS pharmacy, which ironically wrapped actually in a building named Applebaum who sold his pharmacy to CVS. But ultimately, CVS has and best fit and health equity and has sort of partnered with Wayne and get some of that work done, especially in the space of thinking about how to do community engage community participatory research, how to get folks in the community actively involved in some of the work that we're doing, and also how to expand that the health workforce so that people can have access to care and sort of do the best that we can remove some of those barriers. And so in the next coming slides, what we're going to do is show some data that's publicly nationally available. While some of these numbers might be going in the wrong direction, Risa gives us a clear baseline so that we can show how Good, we are moving forward. And so on this slide we look at total community partnerships. This comes from the Higher Education Research Development data where you can see that across over the last five years, these numbers have actually been either staggered or going down. The problem has been stagnating, going down actually forces us to be in a space where we're losing ground in our national rankings, where other peer institutions are actually going up across time, right. So you can see that we started in 2018, with a third ranking of 76 months research one institutions, they were currently sitting at 89, in the year towards. When we begin on practice into the three specific domains, whether it's dollars, engaged with businesses, nonprofit organizations, state and local governments, you can see that these these indicators are either flat or going down. Ultimately, while we want to move all these numbers up, I think we also want to increase our portfolio the spaces in general. And so while we can see businesses at 6.6 million, that number has to get much higher, let alone not be fooled. But this provides a baseline so you can see the impact of the work that we are going to actively engage in in the next few years. When you look at Wayne State and comparisons to some of our peer institutions, you can see that we have dropped to about 13 places in comparison to our peers, currently not sitting in a healthy space, but only go up from here, right. And so we're excited about what's possible as it relates to their community partnerships.
So one of the ways we've been exploring how do we improve those numbers is by making our institution more accessible to the partners that we want to attract. We're an r1 Research University and we have a rich source of talent. Our faculty, as you've seen this morning, or this afternoon, is amazing. We have a great research enterprise, but often, outside partners have trouble navigating the university to find access to them. So we have, we used to have an entity like that until about 2017 2018, called the front door, it was fine, what I would say was executing it, you know, operating on all cylinders, maybe not. But we have spent a lot of time in the last few years, besides talking to consultants looking at best practices across the country, and are working on developing something that is going to allow us to be a seamless concierge is sort of a customer service focus that we're looking at concierge term, to make sure that if someone wants to interact with university, whether it's to hire students, engage with faculty and do research, or even rent the gym, they are going to be able to do that because Wayne State is open. For those types of partnerships. We think it benefits our students, we know it benefits our faculty, and we are certainly will benefit our community in lots of different ways. Again, you know, we're going to talk about the next section growth in enterprise. In terms of statistics, you're gonna see a lot of data that comes here from modeling the American Association of University Technology managers, which is an organization that represents all the universities across the country, most people are reporting to them, the amount of university licensing revenue startups, the number of invention disclosures, et cetera, et cetera. And we're going to talk a little bit more about that data here. I do want to bring your attention down to the last one there. APLU IEP designation. This is again, are we innovative and engaged university and we are, we are one of the few universities as you'll see in a minute that is engaged in lots of different ways. And here, we're going to actually collaborate just on one slide alone, so and track the Michigan training is Translational Research and Commercialization. This is a program that was founded by the state and through the MBDC. Back in 2012. They established some some funding sources and these centers statewide centers that would help commercialize university research. There are five of these centers across the state to or U of M ones in Michigan Tech ones at Michigan State, we have one here as well around advanced computing. But the way each of these works is that they fund projects out of all of the universities. So for example, the one in Michigan State funds projects across the universities, any university project that has an ad biophotons you're going to have one around mobility, we have one around advanced computers, AI Big Data, etc, etc. And a couple of our faculty members, one of whom we just saw, have been awarded from some of those across the state
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We just wanted to highlight one of the mechanisms that he received a grant to call for a product development and human feasibility trial a novel non invasive device to affect treatment of a missing
family health scientists, I don't know that. But essentially trying to develop non invasive technologies that can be used for treatment. One of the things that's nice about this story is that it's just an idea that got some seed funding and engagement with tech commercialization that ultimately led to a spin off company that we're currently sort of engaging with. And so I think this is just a really beautiful story, that can be a great time. And he's also recognized for some of his other work within the same meeting as well. So when we think about technology, tech, commercialization, all those sorts of aspects, as many of you may or may not know, some of that, or that whole shop is now going to be moved under the vice president of researchers office, so my office. And so you know, there's some work that we have to be done that has to be done in that space. I recall meeting with faculty, as recently as yesterday, we talked about how the energyunited office was much greater before COVID. And then sort of COVID happened, that sort of face to face contact sort of went down across time, and we're going to change that moving forward. And I'll talk a little bit about that in a second. But if we look at invention disclosures over the past five years or so, you can see that number has been going up and down from from year to year. Ultimately, we want to make that number a much higher number. And in fact, that's one of our key performance indicators moving forward is to think about how we can have more visual disclosures across time, when you look at us in comparison to our national peers. As you can see, you have a lot of room to grow in that space, or I would say a lot of opportunities to grow. And that's good. If you look at some of the gross licensing income, obviously you have to disclose and more protected and ultimately license and get some income from that, or licensing dollars or income dollars has gone down significantly for 2018, we're at 956,000 down to a little more than half of our rankings and comparisons to other research one institution. So follow on from number 75 to win six. And if you look at the numbers of licenses, options that have been executed, we've gone from nine Alpha rapid 13 down to six, when you look at new startups formed over the past five years, have four in 2018, one in 2019, and then had nothing between 20 and had to over the last two cycles. At this particular moment, we are in the process of hiring our next Assistant Vice President for tech commercialization, this person will be charged to actually take this on and really revitalize how we do business there, including being a lot more proactive. I think. In the past, we have relied on faculty to come to us when they might have an idea or something that's worth commercializing. But now we're going to be much more proactive in that space. And in real time as we get new awards being funded, having a team look at the award and look at what the work involves, and then proactively go to those faculty members to have that conversation because many faculty are actually producing some very novel things and don't even know that that's something that could be protected and monetized. So we're going to take a much more accurate approach in that. In fact, Ned is cheering, or I'm searching to get the moment and I just received three strong finalists that we're currently negotiating with in campus. weeks. And so that process is moving pretty well. But I think one of the things to bring home is this institutional classification slide. And look at the peer institutions as it relates to are you a minority serving institution? Are you classified as a community engagement institution? And so on? Are you in the APLU IEP? And if you look at this list is not a whole lot institutions, like I say yes to all those things. And so I think that's something that we can be really proud of, as an institution is something that you can leverage as a strength that we move forward with what
you're doing thing I would add to that last slide is that, you know, I mentioned that a lot of these these these metrics here. Are, I wouldn't say incomplete, but they don't reflect everything that we do, because it's hard to find things that translate. Whereas, you know, the Carnegie classification of the UAP are another way for those institutions to dig a little deeper across all the things that we do, and have it be, I don't want to say subjective, but to say yes, you really are engaged in your community based on your age. On the impact with the population you're serving the breadth of work that you're doing, even though someone you know you're not calculating, you know, 53 different metrics across, you know, all the different organizations.
presentation, I would have liked more about 2023 It's not always easy. But let me say this, I do appreciate your giving us not just the glowing story of how wonderful Yeah, but this very well where our faults are and what you're gonna do try to do, too. So.
Just a little footnote, the
reason the data lags a bit is because on these national indicators, much like you may or may not remember on the teaching and learning in order to report into the federal government and then the federal government to then display everyone's it usually lags by about a year. Go on, let's say. Okay, on to Item eight. Our board committee reports. Three of the board standing committees met earlier today, and I'd like to call on the Chair. So that's committees for report. We'll start with going to tangkoko for the Academic Affairs Committee report.
Thank you. During this morning's meeting, the committee approved the establishment of the occupational therapy doctoral program, and this continuous and certificate programs and applied behavior analysis. Both of these items were included in the consent agenda adopted earlier this afternoon. The Provost presented the annual report on course material fees and information report, which provides a summary of fees assessed for the use of consumable resources. We spent the remainder of the meeting listening to an engaging presentation. The presentation began with an update on the goals of the University's College to Career initiative. And we heard some specific examples about how experiential learning and community engagement impact learning experiences. From the College of Engineering we heard about a project that the university and its partner institution in Germany have been working on to solve two different transportation safety problems. And an undergraduate students spoke about his experience with this project, including traveling to Germany and developing lifelong friendships across the ocean. Then the director of the Humanities Center, who's also a professor in the English department spoke about a service learning project that involves Wednesday students teaching Shakespeare to students at Cass Tech High School. The director also discussed opportunities provided to students in editing a prominent journal in undergraduate research. A second student joined the director for this presentation talking about his own experiences in these endeavors. And I talked about the fact that this really energized us and made us understand what our mission is all about. And it came to life for us this morning. So we thank the students and the faculty very much. The committee greatly appreciate the presentation provided us an opportunity to hear firsthand about the impact of the university's programs and our engagement with the community and how our students benefit from these experiences. That Thank you. And that concludes my report.
I'll call on Governor Barnhill for that report from budget Finance Committee.
The Budget and Finance Committee met this morning and covered a number of important and critical issues for the university. We heard a report and an overview on the university's audited financial statements, which had been reviewed earlier this year in greater detail by the board parts committee. We also reviewed two standard reports. The Budget Committee sees each meeting, which includes the update on major capital projects, as well as the purchasing exceptions for those contracts are awarded without competitive bids. Several action items were also reviewed, discussed and acted upon. The committee approved a request for a transfer from the contingency fund, and then spent significant time discussing the fiscal year 2024 2025 Campus board rate recommendation and the proposed rates for the fiscal year 2004 2025 School of Medicine tuition. actions related to the setting of the fees for our students are, of course, critically important the board and these are decisions that we don't take lightly. We had a thoughtful and productive discussion on these matters. And I would now like to turn the floor back to you President SP for action on those two items.
Thank you regarding academic year 2024 25 campus housing and room and board rate. I asked for a motion that the Board of Governors approved the FY 20 side board rates as presented as proposed all meal plans increased by 3% or 5%. And you'll remember rates for 2024 2025 will remain flat at the same that it is now. tables will be included in the proceedings of this meeting that will detail the specific rates and changes for each of the meal plans for academic year 2024 25. I have a motion. Support for All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Abstentions. Motion carries. Now regarding the School of Medicine academic year 2024 20 sighs, tuition rates, I asked for a motion that the Board of Governors adopt the increases in the FY 25 base tuition rate of 5.5% for resident students and 1.5% for the non resident students in the School of Medicine. It is further recommended that the Board of Governors adopt an increase of 5.5% in the student medical support fee, which is an annual fee in the student service fee, which is a per term See, what's the term conversion and 2022. All students registered for at least 10 credits per term will be charged a flat term right along with associated fees. All students registered for less than 10 credit hours per term will be charged per credit hour along with the associated fees. As part of this resolution, the Board of Governors authorizes the President or his or her designee to adjust tuition rates and fees for special or joint programs or otherwise appropriate. Finally, this tuition recommendation applies only to students enrolled in the School of Medicine MD program, and is not an indication of rates for the general student body or an obligation by the Board of Governors regarding the rates that will be set for the rest of the university's programs at a later date. tables including the details for tuition and fees by program here and students seats will be included in the proceedings of this meeting. may have a motion. Support. Score, all in favor. Any opposed? Abstentions? The motion carries. And that's our call on Governor Gaffney. So the report from the Personnel Committee. Thank
you. The major focus of this morning's Personnel Committee was on the presentation of the 2023 Equal Opportunity status report. We thanked Amy Lammers for her work compiling that. This is an annual report for the board, which provides demographic information on the university's employees, including the percentage of minority men, minority women, and women by various employment categories. The report explains how Wayne State University ranks when compared to other Michigan public universities in the percentage of minority employees. He ranks first, the number of women employees were ranked second statewide, as well as comparisons on the percentage of women and minorities in management positions where Wayne State also excels. Finally, the report provides information on the number of complaints filed with and overseen by the Office of Equal Opportunity. I for one was impressed by how few complaints there actually are. We also discussed this morning, the issues surrounding possible wage increases to $15 an hour for both employees and student workers. That concludes my report. Thank you.
Thank you, Governor Ghazni. Now we'll move on to Item nine recommendations from the university leadership. We have next we have a request from Vice President Abasi for approval of a subcontract to license technology to a company owned by faculty member. I asked for a motion that the Board of Governors authorized the President or her designee to enter into an option with perpetual sciences LLC, and Michigan Limited Liability Company for an exclusive option for an exclusive license for commercialization of intellectual property and compensating the development of a solid state shutdown with active CSF outflow regulator. I have a motion with.
Me outside of it being policy.
Wide vote in favor of it rather than opposed.
But tell us a little bit about what the shot does. I mean, unfortunately, we've been a licensed something to our faculty members because this is the only way they can proceed in order to
be curious why we're why that's why this
request is being
I guess unfortunately, I don't have more info I mentioned outside of a document we submitted that sort of explained the background associated with it. I mean, I can say a little bit about who the person is. But there's, I think a two page document where we detailed the background, that person's track record some of the work that they've done in the area, and so forth. Okay. That's that's with regard to Carolyn here, right? That's correct. Okay, that's fine. Have a motion. So
this requires a roll call vote. Secretary Miller, can you please call the roll and obtain vote? Yes, Governor. Governor Brown given up as we go. Yes. Governor? Yes. Governor Kelly. Governor Kuma Yes. Governor lamb? Yes, Governor saying? Yes.
Thank you, Julie. I think these establishment of endowment funds we have two items requiring action from the Division of Development and Alumni Affairs. The first is on the establishment of endowment funds. I asked for a motion that the Board of Governors established endowment funds that total 1,100,007 89 672 and 25 cents for the purposes presented. So support, support, all in favor, aye. Opposed? Abstentions? Motion carries. The next item is a correction for the request for a dissolution of an endowment. The second item is approval of a correction in this dissolution. I asked for a motion that the Board of Governors approved the correction of the dissolution of the urban D read and data athletic scholarship as presented. I have a motion. So moved. Second. Second. All in favor? Extensions. The motion carries. Item 10 Is the informational division reports. Your materials include several divisional reports provided for informational purposes that highlight the activities in each of their respective areas since our last board meeting. Should you have any questions on any of these materials? The executive officers are happy to respond now or following the meeting at anytime. And this is the last item on the agenda for today's meeting. All right, being there no further business a motion to adjourn but certainly being all in favor, aye. We stand adjourned.
