Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky, Tuesday, January 23, 1990. The Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky met at 1:00 p.m. Lexington time on Tuesday, January 23, 1990 in the Board Room on the 18th floor of the Patterson Office Tower on the Lexington Campus. A. Meeting Opened and Oath of Office Administered Mr. Foster Ockerman, Chairman, called the meeting to order at 1:02 p.m., and the invocation was pronounced by Mr. Ted Bates. Mr. Ockerman welcomed Dr. Robert P. Meriwether to the Board and asked Mr. John C. Darsie, General Counsel, to administer the oath of office to him. Dr. Meriwether was appointed by Governor Wallace G. Wilkinson to replace Mr. Lawrence E. Forgy for a term expiring December 31, 1993. B. Presidential Search Committee Announced Mr. Ockerman informed the Board that the presidential search would be conducted as it had been in past years. He read the following section in the Governing Regulations that relates to the appointment of a President for the University: "The President of the University is appointed by the Board of Trustees with the advice of a joint committee of the Board, faculty and student body. The committee shall consist of five members of the Board appointed by its chairman; three members of the full-time teaching and/or research faculty of the University System, selected by a procedure determined by the University Senate; one member of the full-time teaching faculty of the Community College System, selected by a procedure determined by the Community College Council; and one full-time student appointed by the chairman of the Board. The committee shall provide opportunity for discussion between representative administrative, faculty, and student groups and prospective presidential candidates." He reminded the Board that it would be a nationwide search and that the responsibility for selecting a president rests with the Board. Before announcing his appointments to the Presidential Search Committee, Mr. Ockerman explained that it is not possible to appoint every Board member to the Committee because it would be contrary to the Governing Regulations. He emphasized that every Board member would have the right to cast one vote for whomever is put before the Board in due course of time. He announced the membership of the Presidential Search Committee.