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MINI´«Ã½ Regents to Meet February 27-28

Regents will have a two-day meeting in Amarillo at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Amarillo campus in the SimCentral Building.

Feb. 25, 2020 | Contact: Scott Lacefield

The MINI´«Ã½ will meet Thursday and Friday (Feb. 27-28) in Amarillo, Texas. The meeting will take place in the SimCentral Building (Room 102) on the (MINI´«Ã½HSC) (1280 S. Coulter Street).

This marks the second time a MINI´«Ã½ System Board of Regents meeting will be held in Amarillo, the first coming in February 2010. The last time a board meeting was outside of the MINI´«Ã½ System Administration Building at a campus location was in 2018 at . Overall, there have been 11 board meetings held outside of Lubbock at a MINI´«Ã½ System campus since 1999.

Below are highlights of the topics and items to be discussed at the upcoming meeting, including estimated times with periodic recesses. and a of the meeting will be available online. Parking for news media is available in the SimCentral Building parking lot.

Thursday, February 27

11:00 a.m. – Call to order; convene as Meeting of the Board and Committee of the Whole Board

11:00 a.m. – Executive Session

1:00 p.m. – Following Executive Session, reconvene into Open Session as Committee of the Whole

1:00 p.m. – Facilities Committee

1:35 p.m. – Finance and Administration Committee

2:00 p.m. – Academic, Clinical and Student Affairs Committee

2:20 p.m. – Audit Committee

Friday, February 28

8:30 a.m. – Call to order; reconvene Meeting of the Board

• Introductions and Recognitions

9:00 a.m. – Executive Session

9:30 a.m. – Following Executive Session, convene into Open Session

Noon – Adjournment

About the MINI´«Ã½ 

Established in 1996 and headquartered in Lubbock, Texas, the is a $2 billion higher education enterprise focused on advancing higher education, health care, research and community outreach. Consisting of four universities – , , and – the MINI´«Ã½ System collectively has approximately 55,000 students, 17 campuses statewide and internationally, more than 300,000 alumni and an endowment valued at over $1.3 billion.

During the 86th Texas Legislature under the leadership of Chancellor , legislative funding and authority was provided to establish a new Texas Tech University veterinary school in Amarillo and a new dental school at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso. This will be the state’s first veterinary school in more than a century and first dental school in over 50 years. The addition of these two schools makes the MINI´«Ã½ one of only nine in the nation to offer programs for undergraduate, medical, law, nursing, pharmacy, dental and veterinary education, among other academic areas.