Two new members of the Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents will be sworn in Tuesday when the board meets.
The regents also will consider a student activity fee authorized by the university's Student Government, a proposed new academic program, a master of science in nursing degree, and a number of resolutions.
The board will convene at 11:30 a.m. in the University Center Party Room for the administration of oaths to Lynn Matthews Dempster of Sikeston and Mark J. Pelts of Kennett. Circuit Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. is scheduled to officiate at the ceremony.
The meeting will then be recessed for lunch and will reconvene at 1:30 p.m.
As its first business in the afternoon, the board is expected to go into closed session to elect new officers.
Regent J.P. Tlapek of Cape Girardeau has been board president since May 1990. His six-year term on the board has expired. The term of Regent James Lincoln of Sikeston also has expired.
Regent Carl Ben Bidewell of Poplar Bluff is the current vice president. Other members are Daniel Williams Jr. of St. Louis; Donald l. Harrison of Cape Girardeau; and Elizabeth Ann Dombrowski of Cape Girardeau.
Also on the agenda, the board will hear reports on a merit pay plan proposed by the Faculty Senate and on the fiscal year 1992 operating budget, but is not scheduled to take action on those items until its June meeting.
Reports are also planned on the student financial-aid audit and on the planning of a College of Business Administration building.
After adjournment, the board plans to visit the site proposed for the College of Business Administration.
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