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'Quiet meeting' expected as trustees visit campus
By: Matthew Stone and Colleen Good
Issue date: 10/5/07 Section: News
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Members of Macalester's Board of Trustees arrived on campus yesterday and will continue until the end of the day today with a schedule of committee meetings, a luncheon with new faculty members, and a group photograph, among other activities.
"It'll be a pretty quiet meeting," President Brian Rosenberg said in an interview last week.
Although few action items-initiatives on which the board will vote-are on the agenda for the two days the trustees visit campus, the meeting will represent multiple firsts for the Board, which sets policy for the college and evaluates the performance of the president.
"There will be a lot of new things about this meeting, and that's part of the challenge," Rosenberg said.
The October meeting is the first since a shakeup in the Board's leadership this summer, when Chairman Jeffrey Larson '79 resigned after the collapse of his Boston hedge fund, Sowood Capital Management, which lost $1.5 billion, or half its value, in July. Timothy Hart-Anderson, a Presbyterian pastor and the only member of the Board who is not an alumnus, is serving as the interim Board chairman until the members settle on a permanent head in May.
The trustees' meeting also marks the first for the Board's five newest members, who were scheduled to participate in an orientation session yesterday afternoon for three and one-half hours. Professionally, the new members come from finance, business and non-profit backgrounds. They graduated from Macalester during the 1970s and 1980s.
The new student liaison, Blythe Austin '08, was scheduled to join the new members in their orientation. The Board voted in the spring to create Austin's position in an effort to improve communication and understanding between Board members and students. Austin will join trustees during most Board sessions.
Thirteen students will be involved with trustee meetings today as representatives on seven trustee committees.
While some student representatives are involved in student government, such as Macalester College Student Government President Franz Meyer '09, for others, this is their first time taking part in campus affairs.
"It'll be a pretty quiet meeting," President Brian Rosenberg said in an interview last week.
Although few action items-initiatives on which the board will vote-are on the agenda for the two days the trustees visit campus, the meeting will represent multiple firsts for the Board, which sets policy for the college and evaluates the performance of the president.
"There will be a lot of new things about this meeting, and that's part of the challenge," Rosenberg said.
The October meeting is the first since a shakeup in the Board's leadership this summer, when Chairman Jeffrey Larson '79 resigned after the collapse of his Boston hedge fund, Sowood Capital Management, which lost $1.5 billion, or half its value, in July. Timothy Hart-Anderson, a Presbyterian pastor and the only member of the Board who is not an alumnus, is serving as the interim Board chairman until the members settle on a permanent head in May.
The trustees' meeting also marks the first for the Board's five newest members, who were scheduled to participate in an orientation session yesterday afternoon for three and one-half hours. Professionally, the new members come from finance, business and non-profit backgrounds. They graduated from Macalester during the 1970s and 1980s.
The new student liaison, Blythe Austin '08, was scheduled to join the new members in their orientation. The Board voted in the spring to create Austin's position in an effort to improve communication and understanding between Board members and students. Austin will join trustees during most Board sessions.
Thirteen students will be involved with trustee meetings today as representatives on seven trustee committees.
While some student representatives are involved in student government, such as Macalester College Student Government President Franz Meyer '09, for others, this is their first time taking part in campus affairs.
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