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unusual facts about Board of Regents



Elsa Murano

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents voted 8–1 in support of her — the one opposing vote came from Gene Stallings, who voted for another unspecified candidate.

Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health

On January 14, 2004 the Board of Regents established the first School of Public Health in the University System of Georgia and named it the Jiann-Ping Hsu School of Public Health.

John Harmon Charles Bonté

John Harmon Charles Bonté (1831–1896) was a lawyer, Episcopal priest, and Secretary of the Board of Regents of the University of California from 1881-1896.

Michael R. Williams

Williams was named to the position in 2013 by the University of North Texas System Board of Regents to succeed Scott Ransom.

Willoughby v. Stever

Willoughby v. Stever was a 1973 American legal decision in a case brought by evangelist William Willoughby against the National Science Foundation director H. Guyford Stever and the Board of Regents of the University of Colorado for using taxpayer money to fund textbooks developed by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) because they included evolution instruction.


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2010–12 Southeastern Conference realignment

However, A&M was reportedly also considering a move to the SEC (either paired with Oklahoma or by itself); it was rumored that Gene Stallings, the former A&M and Alabama football coach who was at that time a member of the A&M System Board of Regents, was leading the SEC move.

Alberto Fenix

He is currently a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Angeles University Foundation, and a Member of the Board of Regents of the Southern Leyte State University.

Allan Shivers

In 1973, Democratic Governor Dolph Briscoe appointed Shivers to a six-year term on the University of Texas Board of Regents.

Cumulative voting

Among them are Peoria, Illinois for half of its city council, Chilton County, Alabama for its county council and school board, and Amarillo, Texas, for its school board and College Board of Regents.

David F. Simons

Another example is that Mr. Simons was one of the attorneys on the “Dream Team” recruited to assist former University of Hawaii president, Evan Dobelle when his employment was terminated by the State Board of Regents.

Emanuel V. Soriano

He was one of the pioneer faculty members of the College of Business Administration, and among the first Filipinos to be sent to the United States for advanced studies in business together with former College of Business Administration deans Jaime C. Laya (who was the 5th governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas from 1981 to 1984), Magdaleno B. Albarracin, Jr. (now member of the Board of Regents), and Rafael A. Rodriguez (now Professor Emeritus).

George T. Gerlinger

George's wife, Irene Hazard Gerlinger, was the first woman on the University of Oregon's Board of Regents and an important fundraiser for the university, including for what was then known as the University of Oregon Museum of Art.

George W. Lilley

He served the Washington institution through the end of 1892 when the Board of Regents chose John W. Heston as the institution's second president.

Glenn Terrell

He was selected by the Board of Regents as the seventh president of Washington State University in 1967 and began his duties July 1st, succeeding C. Clement French.

J. J. Pickle Research Campus

In 2003, the UT System Board of Regents and Simon Property Group reached a $130 million lease agreement under which Simon would build a shopping mall on 46 acres (186,000 m²) of unused PRC land along Loop 1 and across from another Simon Property Group venture - The Domain.

Jacek Rostowski

From 1995 he has been Professor of Economics and was the head of the Department of Economics at the Central European University in Budapest during the periods: 1995–2000 and 2005–2006 (accredited by the Board of Regents of the State University of New York, for and on behalf of the New York State Department of Education. Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, Yale and Berkley Universities are also accredited by SUNY).

Jack Friel

The court inside Beasley Coliseum, the Cougars' home arena, was named after Friel in April 1977, as announced by university President Glenn Terrell at a meeting of the board of regents.

John Harmon Charles Bonté

He left Redwood City to accept the appointment to be Secretary of the Board of Regents of the University of California at Berkeley in August 1881, having left the pulpit because of the failure of his voice.

Juanita Baranco

She was appointed by Governor Zell Miller to the Board of Regents and in 1995 became the first African American women to chair the board.

Kansas Board of Regents

In 1964, Wichita State University was brought under the Board of Regents, bringing the number of state universities governed by the Board to six.

Kenneth Meshoe

On 18 December 1994, Kenneth Meshoe was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Humane Letters, abbreviated L.H.D.), by Bethel Christian College of Riverside, California, USA, and was also appointed to serve as an Associate Member on the Board of Regents of Bethel College.

Louisiana Scholars' College

The Scholars' College was established in 1987 by the Louisiana Board of Regents and then-governor Edwin Edwards as the state's only officially-designated honors college for the State of Louisiana.

Melvin Rambin

In 1999, Rambin was appointed by Republican Governor Murphy J. Foster, Jr., as a regent of the Louisiana Board of Regents of Higher Education.

Murder of Laura Dickinson

The nationally reported scandal resulted in the firing of President John A. Fallon by the Board of Regents.

Norton Simon

He accepted appointments to the University of California Board of Regents, the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Higher Education, the boards of Reed College, the Los Angeles Music Center, the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, and the Institute for Advanced Study.

Redemptorist High School

Former State Representative and Louisiana Board of Regents member Vic Stelly taught and coached at Redemptorist during the early 1960s.

Smithsonian Institution

Other members of the Board of Regents are three members of the U.S. House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House; three members of the Senate, appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate; and nine citizen members, nominated by the Board and approved by the Congress in a joint resolution signed by the President of the United States.

University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston

Prior to 1972, the GSBS Dean had direct access to the Chancellor in Austin and all Board of Regents meetings.

University of the State of New York

Also starting in 1890, the Secretary to the Board of Regents – then Melvil Dewey, also head of the State Library – supervised full-time inspectors of secondary schools, libraries, colleges, and other institutions reporting to the Regents.

William Marcellus Howard

During his last few terms in the U.S. House and for several years after leaving that body, Howard served on the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution (1905 through 1912) and was a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.