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I want to show you the National Championship Women’s Ice Hockey Club team [shows photo], which won the AAU championship last week. We’re proud of them. And we have some good news to start this report. I also wanted to…

Good Afternoon. These are interesting times for American higher education. Since the last meeting of the University Senate on Jan. 22, there have been almost daily developments coming from Washington concerning law, regulation, and policy applying to colleges and universities….

Thank you, Professor Nordquist. I’ll be brief. I will provide updates on budget, enrollment, and on the successful close of the Forever Orange Campaign, a little bit on Los Angeles, and then I’ll take questions after the provost as usual….

First of all, on the athletic report, I think Senators Tucker and Upton did a really great job of giving you a sense of the terrain that we’re dealing with and how much of it is undecided and uncertain. There…

I’m just going to quickly update on two things from the last meeting. One is benefits and just to say that two situations we were facing that were mentioned at the last meeting are still true. The first one, health…

Greetings, everybody. I should say that I had Tom’s [Dennison] job [chair of the Employee Benefits Advisory Council] in another life at the University of Michigan. I was the chair of a similar body there. I’m aware of the [health…

Thank you, Professor Reed. Can we all clap for the professor? Twenty-five days to Commencement. It’s hard to believe and package it. Today I’m going to be very brief. I do want to note with great sorrow the passing last…

Thank you, Professor Reed. I’ll be very brief. I’ll just share three developments. Just before spring break, the University announced plans to build two new residence halls. These will be the first new construction residence halls in at least 15…

Thank you, Professor Reed. My only remark today is to answer Senator Van Gulick’s question from the Jan. 24 meeting. To remind folks, he asked about reseating the JMA Wireless Dome this summer, which will make it much more accessible…

Chancellor Kent Syverud addressed University Senate at its meeting today. His remarks were as follows: Thank you, Professor Reed. I have some quick updates and a happy announcement I’ll conclude with, but first I’d like to acknowledge the loss of…