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       D.    President's Consent Agenda

       President Wethington said that given the instructions by the Board at the last meeting,
there are three items on the Consent Agenda:

             Approval of the Minutes,
             PR 5A - Candidates for Degrees in the University System, and
             PR 6A - Written Statement of Institutional Commitment to Graduate Medical
             Education.

      President Wethington suggested that the three items be handled at one time at the
beginning of the meeting unless a Board member wished to have an item pulled from the
Consent Agenda.

      Mr. Miles asked for a motion to approve the President's Consent Agenda. Mr. Guthrie
moved approval. The motion, seconded by Ms. Wilson, carried. (See PR 5A and PR 6A at the
end of the Minutes.)

      E.    President's Report to the Board of Trustees (PR 1)

      President Wethington called attention to the following items in PR 1:

      1. The University's new supercomputer has pushed UK into the top 10 among academic
          computing centers in the nation and among the top 200 academic computing centers
          worldwide.

      2. The U.S. News and World Report has ranked the University of Kentucky Hospital in
          the top 50 in the country in two different specialties; orthopedics and cancer care.
          The Markey Cancer Center, ranked 18th, is listed in the top 20 for cancer care for the
          second consecutive year.

      3. The University of Kentucky's Young Women in Science Program, developed and led
          by the UK Center on Drug and Alcohol Research and supported by a $1.29 million
          grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, welcomed its second group of 26
          women from 13 southeastern Kentucky counties. This program encourages young
          women from Appalachia to pursue scientific careers in drug research.

      4. The Kentucky Geological Survey has secured more than $500,000 in funding for
          water resources research.

      5. The UK Children's Hospital was a beneficiary of the annual Children's Miracle
          Network campaign again this year. The total support to UK, which is in its 13th year
          of the program, now approaches $6.67 million.

      President Wethington asked the members to read the other items in the report at their
leisure. He also mentioned that items A and B in his report, the Robinson's Scholars Program
and the Capital Campaign Kickoff, would be at the end of his report.