The new boards will not be in place this year, but the following year the requests will pass through them. The Board of Regents has not been protecting our budget. What we have gotten, we have gotten politically. Mary Anne Barnes asked if institutions will have input into the composition of the boards. Any citizen of the state can write and recommend someone for the board.
All presidents are free to submit recommendations.
Idaho does something like this. What is different about this K- 20 system is the scope of the authority of the boards. Her sense of it is that no board can possibly deal with that scope unless it is significantly decentralized. It looks like one possible way that might happen is that the different chancellors would do much of the groundwork. She does not know how it will work.