BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
GOALS FOR 2009-2010 
 
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1.  
Create a mechanism for presentations to the Board by internal stakeholders at 
the University (e.g., students, faculty, and staff) to increase the trustees’ 
knowledge of the institution, its programs, research, and community service, and 
arrange periodic meetings of these stakeholders with the appropriate standing 
committee of the Board. 
 
2.  
Develop effective self-evaluation measures and an instrument to assess the 
performance of individual trustees and develop an instrument to assess the 
Board’s performance.  
 
 
3  
Re-examine the structure of Board meetings and continue to work on making 
Board meetings more efficient and effective. 
  
 
4.  
Support the President’s reopening of a search to fill the position of Internal 
Auditor. 
 
5.          Arrange for the appointment of the membership of the Audit Committee 
promptly after the Legislature’s action on the Governor’s nomination of five new 
trustees and re-nomination of an incumbent trustee. 
 
6.  
Issue an updated manual for Trustees.  
 
7.  
Revisit the Board’s practices in assessing the President’s performance. 
 
 
 
Guidance for All Trustees 
 
Any Trustee who is presented, by a person inside or outside the University, with any 
University-related matter for investigation or other action is advised to bring the matter to 
the attention of the  President of the University  for proper response. 
 
Any member of a committee of the Board who wants a document or information deemed 
important to perform his/her duty as a member of that committee is advised to 
communicate a request for that document/information to the chair of the committee. The 
Chair should request the information from the committee liaison and copy the President.