The Kansas Board of Regents met Wednesday in Topeka to consider several items related to Kansas State University.
Regents approved K-State to accept ownership of an 80-acre tract of pastureland near Colbert Hills in Riley County from the KSU Foundation. A three-year lease-purchase agreement with the KSU Foundation was approved at the September 2018 KBOR meeting.
Regents approved a university plan to amend the fiscal year 2023 capital improvement project plan and accept the program statement for the West Memorial Stadium band hall.
The privately funded project will renovate space in the stadium to create dedicated indoor practice space, uniform storage, equipment storage and instrument repair space for the K-State Marching Band.
K-State received approval to amend the fiscal year 2023 capital improvement project plan and accept the program statement for the Mosier Hall consolidated biomedical core facility research suite.
The project will consolidate four existing core facilities in the College of Veterinary Medicine to deliver efficient, coordinated services. The project will be funded from a National Institutes of Health grant awarded to the college.
The Regents adopted an updated resolution at the September 2021 meeting, acknowledging the newly appointed regents shall not have access to certain classified information protected by federal law.
The resolution transferred the board's management control over certain classified information to a Security Executive Committee. The Regents updated the Security Executive Committee to replace Peter Dorhout with David Rosowsky, K-State's new vice president for research.
The Regents approved the scope of work for the Student Healthcare Task Force.
The Regents established the task force to commission and evaluate an independent study of the health care delivery system at the state universities.
All state universities submitted fiscal year 2023 housing and food service rates for first reading. The board will take final action in December and approved rates will go into effect on July 1, 2022.
As auxiliary enterprises, housing and food service operations must cover the total cost of operations with user fees. No housing or dining rate increases are requested for the Manhattan or Salina campuses.
The Regents will consider an amendment to board policy to allow students to enroll despite having outstanding financial balances.