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MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA
HELD BY CONFERENCE CALL July 1, 2008
CALL TO ORDER
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia held a special meeting via conference call on Tuesday, July 1, 2008. The Chair of the Board, Richard L. Tucker, called the meeting to order at 8:00 a.m. Present on that day, in addition to Chair Tucker, were Vice Chair Robert F. Hatcher, Regents' Presidential Search Committee Chair, W. Mansfield Jennings Jr., and Regents Kenneth R. Bernard Jr., James A. Bishop, Hugh A. Carter Jr., William H. Cleveland, Felton Jenkins, James R. Jolly, Elridge McMillan, William H. NeSmith Jr., Doreen Stiles Poitevint, Willis J. Potts Jr., Wanda Yancey Rodwell, and Allan Vigil.
ATTENDANCE REPORT
The attendance report was read on Tuesday, July 1, 2008, by the Secretary to the Board, J. Burns Newsome, who announced that Regents Donald M. Leebern Jr., Kessel D. Stelling Jr., and Benjamin J. Tarbutton III had requested and received permission to be absent on that day.
EXECUTIVE SESSION
After the meeting was called to order, Chair Tucker immediately called for an Executive Session for the purpose of discussing personnel and compensation matters. With motion properly made and variously seconded, the Regents who were present voted unanimously to go into Executive Session. Also in attendance were Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr. via phone; the Chief Operating Officer, Robert E. Watts, the Chief Academic Officer & Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Susan Herbst via phone, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs & Secretary to the Board, J. Burns Newsome, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Media and Publications, John Millsaps, the Executive Assistant to the Chancellor, Demetra Morgan, and the Executive Assistant to the Secretary of the Board, Lyndell O. Robinson, who left the meeting once the Executive Session was called. In accordance with H.B. 278, Section 3 (amending O.C.G.A. 50-14-4), an affidavit regarding this Executive Session is on file with the Chancellor's Office.
OPEN SESSION
At approximately 8:34 a.m., Chair Tucker reconvened the Board in its regular open session. Subsequent to discussion during the Executive Session of the full Board of Regents, with motion properly made and duly seconded, the Regents unanimously approved the appointment of Dr. W. Michael Stoy, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of faculty at Gainesville State College in Gainesville, Georgia, as the next President of Middle Georgia College.
Chair Tucker thanked the Chair and members of the Special Regents Presidential Search
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Committee for their time and efforts toward this very important responsibility of the Board, the election of a president for one of the System's institutions. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:37 a.m. on July 1, 2008.
s/ J. Burns Newsome Secretary, Board of Regents University System of Georgia s/ Richard L. Tucker Chair, Board of Regents University System of Georgia
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