The South Dakota Board of Regents will request a 3.06% increase to its base funding, and more than $28 million in one-time funding, to Gov. Kristi Noem ahead of her December budget address for fiscal year 2026. Regents voted on the budget sheet Thursday afternoon after hearing budget requests in the morning from the leaders […]
Gov. Kevin Stitt nominated former Oklahoma State University golf coach and athletic director Mike Holder to the OSU/A&M Board of Regents on Monday. Stitt also called a special session of the state Senate to be held Wednesday for the express purpose of reviewing Holder’s appointment. But Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City, said […]
The Oklahoma Senate has resoundingly rejected one of Gov. Kevin Stitt’s nominees to the board of regents that governs Oklahoma State University, just eight days after the Senate Education Committee unanimously recommended her confirmation to the post. The Senate voted 32-13 Wednesday against confirming Susan Bergen, of Norman. Among the senators who opposed Bergen’s nomination […]
From renaming a founding college at its flagship school to approving a potential billion-dollar master plan, the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents approved several big items during its regular meeting last week in Lubbock. The regents heard several items for approval from each of the five component universities within the system—all received unanimous […]
Ken Levit, a former president of the University of Oklahoma’s Tulsa campus and the current executive director of the George Kaiser Family Foundation, has been appointed by Gov. Kevin Stitt to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. Stitt announced the appointment of Levit on Friday afternoon. On the nine-member state regents’ board, Levit will […]
Dr. Jeffrey Gold meets with workers in Varner Hall, which includes NU’s Office of the President. April 15, 2024. (Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner) Editor’s note: This is a developing story and will be updated. LINCOLN — The University of Nebraska Board of Regents is poised to meet Friday and could consider the final candidacy of Dr. Jeffrey […]
The University of Nebraska Board of Regents meets Oct. 5, 2023, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. (Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner) LINCOLN — The University of Nebraska Board of Regents greenlit a plan Friday to greatly expand its offering of student housing at NU’s medical campus in Omaha after years of student demand. UNMC […]
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico State University Board of Regents voted to unanimously launch a new search for the university’s next president. At the beginning of February, they announced the five finalists but on Monday, NMSU’s Board of Regents released a statement saying more work was needed. Applications open for NM Tourism Department […]
Mar. 11—The New Mexico State University Board of Regents has made a decision on the final candidates in its months-long presidential search: None of the above. The school convened a committee in July to conduct a search for a new leader and announced five finalists for the role in February — the latest step in […]
Gov. Kevin Stitt has named Arcadia businessman Chris Franklin to the OSU/A&M Board of Regents, which oversees Oklahoma State University and four other state higher education institutions. Franklin helped start Tall Grass Capital and Onyx Holdings, which are real estate investment, development, construction and property management companies that focus on small-to-medium-sized towns in Oklahoma. He […]
Mar. 8—The future Innovation Park at Oklahoma State University was featured at the Oklahoma A&M Board of Regents meeting Friday. Elizabeth Pollard, executive director of the Oklahoma State University Research Foundation, presented a macro view of the park. The Innovation Park will be a 678-acre collaborative research park in southwest Stillwater, merging OSU’s land-grant mission, […]
After a heralded state commission recommended major changes to New York’s high school graduation requirements in November, two things became clear. First, there is widespread agreement that New York’s entrenched Regents exams need to be replaced or supplemented as the primary means to determine whether students are ready to graduate. New York is one of […]