March 31, 2006
Regent Wahlert will chair Iowa's presidential search committee
by Anne Krapfl
Parking permit fees at Iowa State would go up $1 to $20 next year, under
rates reviewed last week by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa. The board
will vote on the proposed rates at its May 3 meeting.
No changes were requested in parking meter (50 cents/hour) or metered
parking lot (75 cents/hour) rates. Hourly rates for the Memorial Union
parking ramp would be raised 25 cents for the third and fourth hours, but
the daily maximum rate would remain $8.
If approved, permit rates for the year beginning July 1 would look like
this:
Permit |
FY07 |
Current |
| 24-hour reserved |
$706 |
$692 |
| Reserved |
$393 |
$385 |
| General staff* |
$110 |
$108 |
| Vendor |
$142 |
$139 |
| Departmental |
$110 |
$108 |
| Motorcycle |
$37 |
$36 |
| MU ramp |
$405 |
$385 |
|
*includes residence dept. and Ames Lab
|
In other business, the regents:
- Elected Michael Gartner to a two-year term as board president
(Gartner has been filling a presidential term started by former regent John
Forsyth).
- Approved the appointment of regent Teresa Wahlert as chair of the
University of Iowa's presidential search committee. A vice chair will be
selected from the UI campus.
- Approved Iowa State's request to terminate two graduate programs (in
nutritional psychology and human nutrition) and create in their place an
interdisciplinary graduate program (M.S. and Ph.D.) in nutritional sciences.
The departments of food science and human nutrition, and animal science are
the primary partners in the multi-departmental program.
- Approved a new Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and the
environment. The English department will eliminate its M.A. in English,
specialty in creative writing, and reallocate resources to the M.F.A.
- Approved a new M.S. in seed science and business, administered by
the College of Business and offered solely as a distance ed program. No new
resources are required. Program support will come through tuition, fees and
donations.
- Approved the purchase of a new computer display system for the C6
virtual reality facility in Howe Hall. Fakespace Systems, Marshalltown, was
selected to do the work from among five bids received. The cost, $3.9
million, will be funded by a grant from the U.S. Air Force's Office of
Scientific Research. The new system will give C6 the world's highest
resolution display device by a factor of more than two.
- Approved a name change for the department of foreign languages and
literatures, to the department of world languages and cultures.
