Virginia Tech Board of Visitors to meet June 3-4
The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors will hold its quarterly board meeting at 1:15 p.m. Monday, June 4, in the Board Room of Torgersen Hall (Room 2100) on the Blacksburg campus.
In addition, the full board will meet in closed session on Sunday, June 3 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Cascades Room at the Inn at Virginia Tech.
The following committee sessions will be held June 4 (meetings will be at The Inn at Virginia Tech unless otherwise noted):
- The Academic Affairs Committee will meet in closed session at 8 a.m. in the Alumni Executive Board Room; open session will follow at 8:30 a.m.
- The Buildings and Grounds Committee will meet at 7:45 a.m. in the lobby of The Inn for a tour of the Life Sciences Building. The committee will meet in closed session at 9:15 a.m. in the New River Conference Room and will meet in open session at 10 a.m. in the Huckleberry Room. The committee will then join the Finance and Audit Committee at 11 a.m. in the Solitude Room.
- The Finance and Audit Committee will meet in closed session at 7:30 a.m. in the 1872 Salon and will meet in open session at 8:30 a.m. in the Solitude Room and will be joined by the Buildings and Grounds Committee at 11 a.m.
- The Student Affairs and Athletics Committee meets in open session at 8:30 a.m. in the Old Guard Salon. The committee will depart at 10:30 a.m. for tour of McComas Hall from10:45 to 11:45 a.m.
Among the topics to be discussed during the two day meeting are the 2007-08 university budget, the 2007-08 Faculty Compensation Plan, the 2008-14 Capital Outlay Plan, a new Ph.D. program in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, and several construction and renovation projects.
Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college, Virginia Tech is the most comprehensive university in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Today, Virginia Tech’s eight colleges are dedicated to putting knowledge to work through teaching, research, and engagement activities and to fulfilling its vision to be among the top research universities in the nation. At its 2,600-acre main campus located in Blacksburg and other campus centers in Northern Virginia, Southwest Virginia, Hampton Roads, Richmond, and Roanoke, Virginia Tech enrolls more than 27,000 undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries in 180 academic degree programs.