Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of
Kentucky, Tuesday, January 20, 1987.


       The Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky met at 1 p.m.
(Eastern Standard Time) on Tuesday, January 20, 1987 in the Board Room on
the 18th floor of the Patterson Office Tower on the Lexington Campus.

       A.    Meeting Opened and Roll Called

       Mr. Robert T. McCowan, Chairman, called the meeting to order at 1
p.m., and the invocation was pronounced by Mrs. Edythe Jones Hayes.

       The following members of the Board of Trustees answered the call of
the roll:  Mr. Robert T. McCowan (Chairman), Professor Raymond F. Betts,
Mr. William R. Black, Governor Albert Benjamin Chandler, Mr. Albert G.
Clay, Professor David R. Driscoll, Jr., Mr. Tracy Farmer, Mr. Ronald G.
Geary, Ms. Donna G. Greenwell, Mr. George W. Griffin, Mrs. Edythe Jones
Hayes, Mr. Henry E. Hershey, Mr. Brereton C. Jones, Mr. R. Larry Jones, Mr.
T. A. Lassetter, Mr. W. Bruce Lunsford, Mr. Frank Ramsey, Mr. James L.
Rose, Mr. Bobby Watson, and Professor Constance P. Wilson.    The University
administration was represented by President Otis A. Singletary; Mr. Edward
A. Carter, Acting Vice President for Administration; Chancellors Peter P.
Bosomworth, Art Gallaher, and Charles T. Wethington; Dr. Raymond R.
Hornback, Vice President for University Relations; Mr. John C. Darsie,
General Counsel; Mr. Henry Clay Owen, Controller and Treasurer; and Dr.
Paul G. Sears, Special Assistant for Academic Affairs.

       Members of the various news media were also in attendance.    A quorum
being present, the Chairman declared the meeting officially open for the
conduct of business at 1:04 p.m.

       B.    Minutes Approved

       On motion made by Mr. Ramsey, seconded by Mr. Black and passed, the
Minutes of the December 9, 1986 meeting of the Board of Trustees and the
Minutes of the December 22, 1986 Telephone Conference Call Meeting of the
Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees were approved as written.

       C.    President's Report to the Trustees   (PR 1)

       In reviewing his "Report to the Trustees," copies of which were
distributed earlier, President Singletary called attention to three items.

       Three University faculty have been awarded Fulbright fellowships for
       1986-87: Glenn C. Blomquist, Economics, to Sweden; Jon R. J. Dunn,
       Fine Arts, to Guatemala; and Thomas J. Hudak, English to Thailand.
       He also called attention to the five visiting Fulbright scholars for
       1986-87: two from India, the U.S.S.R., Venezuela and Spain.

       The Lexington Veterans Administration Medical Center's open heart
       surgery program will be continued.   He noted that Congressman Larry
       Hopkins played a very important role in the decision to continue the
       program.