Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky, Tuesday,
October 24, 2000.

       The Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky met at 1:00 p.m. (Lexington time)
on Tuesday, October 24, 2000 in the Board Room on the 18th floor of Patterson Office Tower.

      A.    Meeting Opened

      Billy Joe Miles, Chairperson, called the meeting to order at 1:00 p.m., and the invocation
was pronounced by Jimmy Glenn.

      B.    Roll Call

      The following members of the Board of Trustees answered the call of the roll: Governor
Edward T. Breathitt, Mr. Paul W. Chellgren, Ms. Marianne Smith Edge, Mr. James Glenn III,
Mr. Merwin Grayson, Mr. John "Jack" Guthrie, Dr. Loys L. Mather, Dr. Robert P. Meriwether,
Mr. Billy Joe Miles (Chairman), Dr. Elissa Plattner, Mr. Steven S. Reed, Dr. Daniel R. Reedy,
Ms. Marian Sims, Ms. Alice Sparks, Dr. W. Grady Stumbo, Ms. JoEtta Y. Wickliffe, Mr. Russell
Williams and Ms. Elaine Wilson. Absent from the meeting were Mr. C. Frank Shoop and Mr.
Billy B. Wilcoxson. The University administration was represented by President Charles T.
Wethington, Jr.; Chancellors James W. Holsinger, and Elisabeth Zinser; Vice Presidents
Fitzgerald Bramwell, Joseph T. Burch, Ben W. Carr, Edward A. Carter, George DeBin and
Eugene Williams; Dr. Juanita Fleming, Special Assistant for Academic Affairs; and Mr. Richard
E. Plymale, General Counsel.

      Members of the various news media were also in attendance. A quorum being present,
the Chairperson declared the meeting officially open for the conduct of business at 1:03 p.m.

      C.    Consent Agenda

      Mr. Miles stated that there were three items on the consent agenda:

             Approval of Minutes
             Proposed Amendment to the Governing Regulations (PR 3A)
             Establishment of Baccalaureate Degree Programs in Engineering at Extended
               Campus Site in Paducah, Kentucky (PR 5A)

      Ms. Sims moved approval of the Consent Agenda. The motion, seconded by Ms. Wilson,
carried. (See PR 3A and PR 5A at the end of the Minutes.)

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

      President Wethington asked that the Board read all of PR 1 at their leisure. He called
particular attention to the following items in the report:

       1. The College of Medicine researchers received a five-year, $8.2 million grant from the
          National Institutes of Health to establish the Center of Biomedical Research
          Excellence in Women's Health.