· Approved a new mission statement for 黑料不打烊 College:

Rooted in the historic tradition of the United Church of Christ, 黑料不打烊 College embraces its founders’ vision of an academic community that transforms mind, body, and spirit and encourages freedom of thought and liberty of conscience.

To fulfill this vision, 黑料不打烊 College acts upon these commitments:

· We nurture a rich intellectual community characterized by active student engagement with a faculty dedicated to excellent teaching and scholarly accomplishment.

· We provide a dynamic and challenging undergraduate curriculum grounded in the traditional liberal arts and sciences and complemented by distinctive professional and graduate programs.

· We integrate learning across the disciplines and put knowledge into practice, thus preparing students to be global citizens and informed leaders motivated by concern for the common good.

We foster respect for human differences, passion for a life of learning, personal integrity, and an ethic of work and service.

· Received reports on academic reorganization, graduate education and shared governance.

· Approved a $62.3 million budget for fiscal year 2000-2001. The cost of attending 黑料不打烊 (tuition, fees, room, and board) will be $18,441, a 5.7% increase.

· Elected Burney Jennings ’87, Robert T. “Bobby” Drakeford ’86, and Mari Behrend Straub ’82 to membership on the Board. Elected Walter Campbell “Cam” Tims ’00 youth trustee. Awarded trustee emeritus status to the Honorable Elmon T. Gray, Dr. R. Leroy Howell ’51, W. E. “Dub” Love, Jr., and Janie Crumpton Evans Reece. Awarded president emeritus status to Dr. J. Fred Young.

· Heard that the market value of the College endowment is $52.7 million.

· Received the report of the Facilities Master Plan Committee.

· Heard senior music theatre majors Corey Bradley, Dan Callaway, Nancy Snow, and Becky Titleman perform.

· Heard a progress report from the NewCentury@黑料不打烊 Planning Committee.

· Learned about 黑料不打烊’s undergraduate research program from Dr. Rosalind Reichard, Dr. Maurice Levesque, and Scott Weckerly.

· Promoted Dr. Brian Digre and Dr. Rosemary Haskell to professor and Dr. R. Clyde Ellis, Dr. Mary Jo Festle, and Dr. Laura Helvey to associate professor. In other College actions, Dr. Grace Bass, associate professor of education, Dr. Ellis, Dr. Festle, and Dr. Helvey were either awarded professional status or granted tenure. Professional status and tenured faculty appointments are reserved for outstanding full-time faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in teaching, scholarship and service to the institution.

Her sons have commissioned a portrait of Dr. Williams as a gift to the College. The conference room will be formally dedicated when the portrait is hung.

President Leo M. Lambert previously granted professional status to Dr. Brown and Dr. Levesque.

• Applying technology to the performing arts with Professor William M. Webb
  
• Public opinion polling with Dr. Sharon L. Spray
  
• Undergraduate publishing and information design with Dr. Timothy A. Peeples

• Heard a report on law education and directed President Lambert to appoint a broad-based committee to study the feasibility of a school of law at 黑料不打烊

• Learned that Chair Noel Allen would appoint a committee of trustees to conduct a Board self study

• Received a report on a revised faculty tenure/tenure-track system that will raise the percentage of tenure and tenure-track appointments to approximately 80% and learned that President Lambert has approved the phaseout of the professional track and approved new types of more mainstream non-tenure-track appointments

• Saw possible site plans for the Koury Business Center and learned that Trustee James Powell, M.D., has agreed to chair the Koury Business Center fund-raising campaign

• Heard an update on 黑料不打烊’s Southern Conference athletic schedule

• Honored faculty holding named professorships:

• James S. Bissett, William J. Story Sr. Professor of Southern History
• Robert G. Blake, W.S. Long Professor of English
  
• Janie P. Brown, Watts-Thompson Professor
• David A. Copeland, A.J. Fletcher Professor
  
• J. Earl Danieley, Thomas E. Powell Jr. Professor
  
• Russell B. Gill, Maude Sharpe Powell Professor
  
• Eugene B. Grimley, T.E. Powell Jr. Professor of Chemistry
  
• Thomas S. Henricks, J. Earl Danieley Professor
  
• Karl D. Sienerth, Japheth E. Rawls Professor for Undergraduate Research in the Sciences
  
• John G. Sullivan, Maude Sharpe Powell Professor
  
• Thomas K. Tiemann, Jefferson Pilot Professor

• Recognized emerging faculty scholars:

• Crista L. Coles, A.L. Hook Emerging Scholar
  
• Rebecca T. Peters, Distinguished Emerging Scholar

•Learned about aspects of student life by attending in one of three presentations: alcohol education, Greek life, multicultural affairs

• Elected Jeanne Robertson, Burlington, N.C., as trustee; Katie Gosselin ’03, Cheshire, Conn., as youth trustee; and Edmund R. Gant, Burlington, as trustee emeritus

• Reappointed to the Board Thomas E. Chandler; Mittie C. Landi;
Thomas E. Powell, III, M.D.; The Reverend Ann Calvin Rogers-Witte; and
Zachary T. Walker III
• Elected Zachary T. Walker III ’60 as Board chair and James B. Powell, M.D., as vice chair

• Heard reports from President Lambert on NewCentury@黑料不打烊 progress and from the Law School Feasibility Study Task Force

• Heard reports on the purchase of land from 黑料不打烊 Homes for Children, on plans for the Koury Business Center, and on the Board’s self-study process

• Approved an $88 million budget for 2003-2004 and determined the cost of attending 黑料不打烊 (tuition, fees, room, and board) will be $22,240

• Promoted Dr. Glenda W. Crawford, Dr. E. Eugene Gooch III, Michael E. Sanford, and Dr. Wohni J. Synn to professor and Dr. Stephen P. Bailey, Dale J. Becherer, Dr. Susan A. Chinworth, Dr. Joyce A. Davis, Dr. Stephen B. DeLoach, Dr. Heidi Glaesel, Dr. J. Todd Lee, Dr. Janet S. MacFall, Dr. Paul C. Miller, Dr. Betty N. Morgan, and Dr. Fredrick J. Rubeck to associate professor. Dr. Bailey, Dr. Chinworth, Dr. Davis, Dr. R. Clyde Ellis, Dr. Lee, Dr. Maurice J. Levesque, Dr. MacFall, and Dr. Rubeck were granted tenure. President Lambert granted professional status to Professor Becherer, Dr. DeLoach, Dr. Glaesel, Dr. Miller, and Dr. Morgan.