Board of Trustees Meeting
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
9:00 a.m.
Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House, Sorenson Legacy Foundation Boardroom
(155 Central Campus Drive)
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Call to Order
1.01 Call to Order
9:05 a.m. General Consent
2.01 Minutes
2.02 Faculty and Staff Matters
2.03 Sponsored Projects Report
2.04 University Leases
2.05 Report of Investments Portfolio - for the Month of June
2.06 Revise Policy - Policy 6-309 Academic Staff, Educational Trainees, Postdoctoral Fellows,
and Medical Housestaff
2:07 New Policy - Policy 3-055 University of Utah Investment Policies and Procedures for the
Endowment Pool
2.08 Emphasis Discontinuation - Environmental Geoscience
2.09 Emphasis Suspension - Mining Engineering BS
2.10 Emphasis Suspension - Music History and Literature
2.11 New Certificate - Health and Medical Writing
2.12 New Emphasis - Civil Engineering BS
2.13 Discontinuation Minor - Global Citizenship
2.14 New Minor - Business Artificial Intelligence
2.15 Suspension Minor - Peace and Conflict Studies
2.16 Unit Change - Medical Humanities Minor Transfer to Philosophy
2.17 University's Advancement Corporate Resolution
2.18 Naming - Katie and Ned Stringham Family Neuromodulation Suites in the Kem and
Carolyn Gardner Mental Health Crisis Care Center
2.19 Naming - Facilities in the James LeVoy Sorenson Center for Medical Innovation
9:10 a.m. Action Agenda
3.01 New Degree - BA/BS Legal Studies
3.02 New Degree - Bachelor Music Education
3.03 Naming - Dr. Ezekiel R. and Edna Wattis Dumke Interprofessional Experiential Learning Center in the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine
3.04 Naming - Doxy.me Home Health Studio in the James LeVoy Sorenson Center for Medical Innovation
3.05 AI Investment
9:45 a.m. University Focus
4.01 University Focus - Student Experience
10:00 a.m. Chair's Report
5.01 Current Events and Announcements
10:05 a.m. President's Report
6.01 Report from University Administration
6.02 Current Events
10:25 a.m. ASUU Report
7.01 ASUU Report
10:30 a.m. Academic Senate Report
8.01 Academic Senate Report
10:35 a.m. Staff Council Report
9.01 Staff Council Report
10:40 a.m. Alumni Report
10.01 Alumni Relations Report
10:45 a.m. Information Agenda
11.01 Utah System of Higher Education 2025 Program Report
11.02 Graduate Council Review - Department of Biochemistry
11.03 Graduate Council Review - School of Biological Sciences
11.04 Graduate Council Review - Kahlert School of Computing
11.05 Graduate Council Review - Department of History
11.06 Naming - The Dr. Wallace L. Akerley, III Presidential Endowed Chair for Lung Cancer Research in the Huntsman Cancer Institute
11:00 a.m. Adjourn
Notice of Special Accommodations (ADA)
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals needing special accommodations (including auxiliary communicative aids and services) during this meeting should notify Karen West at 801-581-3088.