Building a community along the Mississippi River is the goal of the south mall design project, consultant Ken Greenberg told regents. The back of Coffman Union would become the new front. Regents expressed enthusiasm for the project and unanimously passed a resolution approving an organizational framework and authorizing the administration to complete the planning and architectural design. Site visit is now expected in fall 1998. Lack of expanded authority has been a hindrance to researchers and has created a great deal of extra work.
Units are now available on informed consent and effort certification.
Serious policy questions must be addressed, including tuition rates and residency requirements, Duin said. Yudof said his greatest concern is quality. Regent O'Keefe said the new technology tends not to substitute for traditional education but to supplement it. Final decisions will be made by the host country. Bill Peterson, professor of mathematics, is coordinator.