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    Under Dr. Michael Karpf s leadership, the Jack and Linda Gill Heart Institute is partnering with Rockcastle Hospital in Mount Vernon to expand UK's knowledge in patient care throughout the state of Kentucky. The expressed goal of helping those communities is to keep their patients in their home communities. When there are severe problems that the home communities cannot handle, patients come to UK.
     The "Wildcat Watch" program is an effort by Don Witt's organization, the Office of Undergraduate Admission and University Registrar, to try to get faculty and staff to become more involved in the university's enrollment process. This effort may even extend to some Board members because personal touch is important, especially for a lot of the top students that UK wants to get.
    Winter College 2006 is going to happen in Naples, Florida. This is the first time UK has offered Winter College in Naples. Some of UK's top faculty members will go to Naples and offer some courses to many of the alumni and friends of UK who live in Naples. President Todd said that there was a lot of excitement about program, and he is eager to attend it.
     The Integrated Resource Information Systems (IRIS) Project implemented the student accounting module one year ahead of the planned schedule. President Todd said that there are horror stories about the implementation of IT systems throughout other universities where programs do not happen ahead of schedule and within budget. He gave Dr. Phyllis Nash and her team credit for how that situation is being handled at UK.
E.        Development Report
President Todd asked Mike Richey, Associate Vice President for Development, to give a report about the development year that ended December 2005.
Mr. Richey said that he was happy to report that the university had a good year in 2005. UK added $138 million in gifts, expectancies, and pledges to the campaign total. UK now stands at $862 million, which is well on the way to the $1 billion goal scheduled to end in December 2007. He noted that it may be possible to finish the campaign a little earlier than that date.
Mr. Richey said he was also encouraged that a five-year annual giving plan had been put in place. The plan started in July 2005, and in the first six months of this fiscal year, which ended December 31, 2005, UK received almost 25,000 in gifts from alumni, friends, corporations, and other sources as compared to 23,000 a year ago. This represents an 8 percent increase.