LINCOLN UNIVERSITY
BOARD OF
TRUSTEES
REGULAR MEETING
Saturday, September 15, 2007
MINUTES
The Lincoln University
Board of Trustees met on Saturday, September 15, 2007, in Vail Hall. Chairman Calvin S.
Morris called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m.
Eastern. The Reverend Dr. Valerie Tate
Green,
University Chaplain, gave the opening prayer.
Vice President Miller called roll.
Trustees
present: Dr.
Robert L.
Albright, Robert L. Archie, Esq., Howard H. Brown, Esq., Mr. Warren R. Colbert, Mr. Lester N. Coney,
Reverend
Charles A. Coverdale, Hon. Levan Gordon,
Mr. Tracey J. Hunter Hayes, Mr. Gregory C.
Miller,
Dr. Calvin S. Morris, Hon.
Spencer
B. Seaton, Hon. Ruth E. Smith, Ms. Tehma H. Smith, Mr. Dwight S.
Taylor, Ms.
Phyllis G. Woolley-Roy; Ex-officio Trustees
Dr.
Ivory V. Nelson; Student Trustee Ms.
Adonita Ahmetaj Quorum
of 12 satisfied. Emeritus
Trustees
Dr. Walter D.
Chambers, Dr. Theodore R. Robb, Mr. William A. Robinson; Faculty
Representative
Dr. James L. DeBoy.
Trustees
excused: Dr. William E. Bennett, Ms.
Andrea L. Custis, Bishop David G. Evans, Dr. Don N. Harris, Dr. David
E. Knox,
Ms. Kimberly A. Lloyd, Hon.
W. Curtis
Thomas, Mr. Nathan H. Waters; Emeritus
Trustees Dr.
Frank T.
Coleman, Dr. Kenneth M. Sadler.
Trustees
absent:
Ms.
Carol Ann Campbell, Hon. Dwight Evans, Richard
H. Glanton, Esq., Mr. Robert F. Powelson,
Dr. Kathleen M. Shaw for Secretary of Education Gerald L. Zahorchak,
Mr.
Sherman F. Wooden.
MINUTES
Vice
President Miller offered the April 21, 2007 and the July 10, 2007 Board
of
Trustees meeting minutes for Board approval.
The
motion was properly
moved and seconded.
Motion
carried unanimously.
CHAIRMAN’S REPORT
The
Chairman’s oral report was accepted as
information.
PRESIDENT’S REPORT
The
President’s report was accepted as information.
TREASURER’S REPORT
Mr.
Howard E. Merlin,
Vice President for Fiscal Affairs and Treasurer, presented the July
2007
Treasurer’s Report.
The
motion to receive the
Treasurer’s report was properly moved and seconded.
Motion
carried unanimously.
STANDING
COMMITTEE—ACTION
TRUSTEES,
DEGREES AND
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
Mr.
Gregory C. Miller,
Chair, Trustees, Degrees and Nominations Committee offered the
following
resolutions for Board approval:
REAPPOINTMENT
OF ALUMNI TRUSTEE
RES273_091507
TO
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
THE
HONORABLE LEVAN GORDON, ‘58
WHEREAS, Article II,
§2 of the Lincoln University
By-Laws (revised July 1, 2005) stipulates that upon the expiration of
the term
of any alumni Trustee, the Board shall elect an Alumni Trustee for a
term of
four years from nominations submitted by the Alumni Association; and
WHEREAS, The Alumni
Association has nominated The Honorable Levan Gordon, ‘58 to serve as an Alumni
Trustee for a second
four-year term to expire June 30, 2011; and
WHEREAS, The Alumni
Association has duly notified the
Board of Trustees of said nomination; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the
Board of Trustees hereby
approves the nomination of the Alumni Association for the reappointment
of The
Honorable Levan Gordon, ‘58
to
serve in accordance with Article II, §2(C) of the University
By-Laws.
The
motion was properly moved and seconded.
Motion
carried with one abstention (Hon.
Levan Gordon).
APPOINTMENT
OF ALUMNI TRUSTEE
RES274_091507
TO
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
MS.
TEHMA H. SMITH, ‘00
WHEREAS, Article II,
Section 2, of the Lincoln
University By-Laws (revised November 20, 1999) stipulates that upon the
expiration of the term of any Alumni Trustee, the Board shall elect an
Alumni
Trustee for a term of four years from nominations submitted by the
Alumni
Association; and
WHEREAS, The Alumni
Association has nominated Ms.
Tehma H. Smith, ‘00 to serve as an Alumni Trustee for a four-year
term to
expire June 30, 2011; and
WHEREAS, The Alumni
Association has duly notified the
Board of Trustees of said nomination; now, therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the
Board of Trustees hereby
approves the nomination of the Alumni Association for the appointment
of Ms. Tehma H. Smith, ‘00 as
Alumni Trustee to serve in
accordance with Article II, Section 2 (C) of the University By-Laws.
The
motion was properly moved and seconded.
Motion
carried.
APPOINTMENT
OF STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE
RES275_091507
TO
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
MS.
ADONITA AHMETAJ
WHEREAS, Article I,
§2(D) of the Lincoln University
By-Laws (Amended April 2006) provides that one of the eighteen
University
Trustees shall be a student representative who shall serve for a term
of one
year; and
WHEREAS, By
Resolution dated February 19, 2000, the
Board of Trustees approved the Student Government Association (SGA)
process of
determining the student representative to the Board of Trustees; and
WHEREAS, The process
approved provides, pursuant to
the Constitution of the SGA, that the SGA President will be the student
representative to the Board of Trustees; now, therefore be it
RESOLVED, That Ms.
Adonita Ahmetaj is
hereby appointed Student Representative to the Board of Trustees in her
capacity as President of SGA, for a term expiring June 30, 2008.
The
motion was properly moved and seconded.
Motion
carried.
CONSENT AGENDA
The
Audit, Buildings and Property,
Business Affairs, Educational Policy and Academic Affairs, Executive,
Information Technology & the Library, Investment, Planning and
Development,
and Student Affairs Committee
reports were accepted as information.
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Chairman
Morris convened an executive session.
The open Board meeting resumed after thirty minutes.
ADJOURNMENT
There
being no further
business, Chairman
Morris
adjourned the meeting at 11:00 a.m. Eastern.