Virginia Tech’s budget and research opportunities will be the top priorities for the Board of Visitors over the weekend in the first meeting for several recently appointed members, including former member John Rocovich.
The board will approve budget initiatives in preparation for the 2011 general assembly session, along with an overview of Tech’s year-to-date financial performance.
The board will also vote on whether to make the Standing Research Committee permanent. The committee has run on a temporary status since its formation in 2006.
The board will also vote to delegate adoption enforcement of trespassing regulations to the chief of Tech’s Police department. Also scheduled for vote are resolutions to approve easements for land to the Virginia Tech Foundation and the town of Blacksburg.
Also under review is a survey gauging employee approval.
The meeting will be the first for new members appointed by Gov. Bob McDonnell. Joining Rocovich, a former rector, on the board as new members are William Holtzman, Suzanne Obenshain and Michael Quillen.
Rocovich, who sat on the board from 1997-2005, was key in the formation of ICTAS, the Edward Via School of Osteopathic Medicine and in Tech’s admission to the Atlantic Coast Conference.
However, Rocovich was at the center of a 2003 controversy involving Tech’s affirmative action policy.
Holtzman, president and owner of Holtzman Oil Company, had Tech’s Holtzman Alumni Center named in his honor. Obenshain has worked with several charitable organizations, while Quillen has worked primarily in the coal industry.
The board’s meetings will run Aug. 29-30.
A version of this article appeared in the Aug 27 issue of the Collegiate Times.
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