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coming back next year. The University has made this capital project a high priority. It is now
number three on the building list. The President and Provost have been very supportive in terms of
the College getting out there, doing the planning necessary for new buildings, and raising the
private funds that will be required for it.

      The College is poised to launch a $15 million capital campaign which will be part of the $1
billion University campaign. This goal has been tested by an outside consultant who found it
ambitious but achievable. The people are in place with a new communications director and a new
development director. The College is now using an institutional advancement model where
development, communications, and alumni all work together pushing the project.

      The College is going to have to continue to recruit strong faculty members, secure adequate
faculty and scholarship resources, and attract the best students to make the quantum leap forward,
and it is on track to do all of those things. The reputation, program, and competitive opportunities
for the law school depend upon the new building. The College has plans for the new building
across the street from Taylor Education Building on Scott Street. The architectural style will
compliment the University and will be a gem on campus for years to come.

      Mr. Hardymon said that the reports about the colleges are good sessions, and the Board will
continue having them as they can be put into the agenda. He called on Ms. Sparks for the Academic
Affairs Committee report.

      G.    Creation of the Department of Orthopedics (AACR 1)

      Ms. Sparks, Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee, reported that the Committee met that
morning and had one item on its agenda. It is the Creation of the Department of Orthopedics. The
recommendation is that the Board of Trustees approve the creation of the Department of
Orthopedics by separating the current Division of Orthopedics from the Department of Surgery
effective November 1.

      Dr. Karpf appointed an ad hoc committee to examine the status of the Division, and it has
gone through all the necessary steps of the University, including the Board's Academic Affairs
Committee. This separation should accomplish several things. The development of such
subspecialties in orthopedics would be a productive strategy to expand the clinical operation at UK
and provide needed service to an aging population. It would allow the recruitment of more faculty
in orthopedics, ideally at the middle level or senior level with national reputations in critical areas
such as joint replacement. Orthopedics at the University of Kentucky will best reach its clinical and
scholarly potential if granted departmental status. The department should be the cornerstone of
development of a musculoskeletal center of excellence. This has become commonplace in other
universities, and Michigan has just recently separated orthopedics from surgery. It will involve 14
orthopedic faculty members moving out of surgery, but 78 faculty members will remain in the
Department of Surgery. On behalf of the Committee, she moved approval of AACR 1. Professor
Kennedy seconded the motion, and it carried without dissent. (See AACR 1 at the end of the
Minutes.)