College Leaders to Present Budget Proposals to Board of Governors
HARTFORD, Oct. 3 - Leaders from Connecticut’s public
colleges and universities will outline their budget proposals covering 2001–2003 to
the Board of Governors for Higher Education on Wednesday, October 11 in the
Board’s third floor conference room at Capital Community College, 61 Woodland Street
in Hartford.
The hearing is to give Board members and the public a preview of finance proposals to
support current services as well as expansion items addressing academic, student and
facility needs across Connecticut’s public college and university campuses. The Board
of Governors will act on the budget proposals on October 18. The hearing schedule is as
follows:
- 9:30 Overview
Valerie F. Lewis, Commissioner
of Higher Education
Mary K. Johnson, Chief Fiscal Officer,
Department of Higher Education
- 10:00 Connecticut State University
William J. Cibes, Jr., Chancellor
- 10:30 Community Colleges
Marc S. Herzog, Chancellor
- 11:00 Charter Oak State College
Merle W. Harris, President
- 11:30 University of Connecticut
Philip E. Austin,
President
- 12:00 University of Connecticut Health Center
Peter J. Deckers
As the state’s coordinating agency for higher education, the Board of Governors
acts on public college operating and capital budget requests before they are compiled into
a systemwide proposal by the Department of Higher Education and sent to the Governor and
General Assembly.
Members of the Board of Governors are: Albert B. Vertefeuille of Lebanon, Chair; Harry
H. Penner, Jr., of Guilford, Vice-Chair; James H. Bates, Lakeville; William A. Bevacqua,
Trumbull; Dorothea E. Brennan, Fairfield; Leonard S. Cohen, West Hartford; Lile R.
Gibbons, Greenwich; Joan R. Kemler, West Hartford; Dorothy B. Leib, New London; Alice V.
Meyer, Easton; and Patricia McCann Vissepó, New Haven.
Contact: Connie Fraser
(860)947-1801
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