Committee approves consent report; Crookston and Medical School receive major gifts

The Mission Fulfillment Committee approved the consent report, which included the academic program report (new, changed and discontinued programs), the conferral of tenure on three faculty members, and recommendations to confer faculty emeritus titles for two retired contract faculty.

Provost Gretchen Ritter presented the consent report and recommended approval. A committee member moved the motion and, after a voice vote in which members said "aye," the motion was approved.

Provost Ritter also reported notable information items: a $6.2 million gift to the University of Minnesota Crookston (described as the largest in that campus's history) from donors Les and June Nielsen, and a $2.3 million gift to the Medical School to support a program for Native American and Alaska Native students entering medicine.

Outcome: The consent report was approved by voice vote; the reported gifts were presented as information items and no further action was recorded at the meeting.