| Report on the Meeting of the Board of Trustees - Winter 2006
The Skidmore College Board of Trustees came to campus February 23-24 for the second board meeting of 2005-2006. Below is a summary of the actions taken by the board at this session.
Budget and Finance Committee
The board set the tuition and fees for the 2006-2007 academic year for traditional residential students at $44,250, an increase of 5.9 percent over the current year. Tuition and fees for traditional non-residential students were set at $34,694, an increase of 6.2 percent. The College is contending with steep increases in operating costs, particularly the cost of energy, which has increased 86 percent since fiscal 2003.
The board also approved preliminary general operating budget parameters for the 2006-2007 budget, including continuing the practice of budgeting enrollments at historical levels of 2,150 students, providing financial aid funds of $21.5 million, an increase of approximately 8 percent over the current year; a compensation budget of $66.7 million, providing a general salary increase of 3 percent for faculty and staff, plus approximately $400,000 for market adjustments and $250,000 for new positions; and transfers to the capital budget of $7 million for facilities renewal, equipment, and information technology.
The board also approved the early release of $1.2 million for capital items, such as desktop computer renewals, improvements to athletic fields, and a program review for the proposed new music building.
Academic Affairs Committee
The board adopted resolutions for faculty tenure, promotions, and sabbatical leaves as follows:
Tenure - Susan Belden, Associate Professor of Management and Business
Tenure and promotion to
Associate Professor -
Ngina Chiteji, Assistant Professor of Economics
Jordana Dym, Assistant Professor of History
Deborah Hall, Assistant Professor of Art
Sabbatical Leaves for Tenured Faculty
For Entire Year (2006-07)
Catherine White Berheide, Professor of Sociology
Alice Dean, Professor or Mathematics
Jordana Dym, Assistant Professor of History
Gove Effinger, Professor of Mathematics Hugh Foley, Professor of Psychology
Carolyn Forché, Professor of English Catherine Golden, Professor of English
Sarah Goodwin, Professor of English
James Kennelly, Associate Professor of Management and Business
Reg Lilly, Professor of Philosophy
Rajagopal Parthasarathy, Associate Professor of English
Gregory Pfitzer, Professor of American Studies
Viviana Rangil, Associate Professor of Spanish
Kris Szymborski, Associate Professor of Library
Gordon Thompson, Professor of Music
Susan Walzer, Associate Professor of Sociology
For Fall 2006
David Atkatz, Assistant Professor of Physics
Ruth Andrea Levinson, Professor of Education
For Spring 2007
John Berman, Professor of Psychology
Virginia Murphy-Berman, Visiting Professor of Psychology
Una Bray, Associate Professor of Math
Roy S. Ginsberg, Professor of Government
Debra Fernandez, Associate Professor of Dance
Michael Steven Marx, Associate Professor of English
Jeff Segrave, Professor of Exercise Science
Peter V. Stake, Associate Professor of Art
Sabbatical Leaves for Untenured Faculty
For Entire Year 2006-07
Beth Gershuny, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Tim Harper, Assistant Professor of Management and Business
James Richard Scarce, Assistant Professor of Sociology
For Spring 2007
Michelle West Frey, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Linda Hall, Assistant Professor of English
Dawn Riley, Assistant Professor of Education
Special Programs Committee
The board approved the awarding of four bachelor of arts degrees and four bachelor of science degrees by the University Without Walls.
Skidmore
Intercom
Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
518.580.5000
intercom@skidmore.edu
|
