{"id":25092,"date":"2023-02-22T17:35:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=25092"},"modified":"2023-02-22T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:35:32","slug":"board-of-governors-meets-in-regular-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2023\/02\/board-of-governors-meets-in-regular-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Board of Governors meets in regular session"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Marshall University Board of Governors, meeting today for its regularly scheduled session, received informational reports on academics, finance and athletics, including a capital project update on Marshall\u2019s baseball stadium and a new multi-million-dollar financial push for athletics updates called the \u201cAll M.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Athletics Director Christian Spears reported that progress on the baseball field is on target and the field is expected to be ready by the 2024 baseball season. He also noted the near completion of other updates like the Gullickson\/Pathway Project and Gullickson Hall.\u00a0 Following executive session, the board approved a resolution naming the Gullickson Hall Gymnasium as the \u201cThe Scaggs Family Practice Facility\u201d and the court as the \u201cNeal and Jo Ann Scaggs Court\u201d in honor of the Scaggs family from Logan, West Virginia, for their charitable commitment to assist with the updates to Gullickson Hall.<\/p>\n<p>In his report to the board, President Brad Smith discussed his first 13 months in office noting five areas that have seen terrific momentum including strategic enrollment initiatives, legislative and economic development, and athletics, as well as efforts to break down silos and operate as one Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf your first name is Marshall \u2026 then we are all on the same team,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith also mentioned \u201cno-regret decisions\u201d as a high-performance area.\u00a0 He referenced a 2022 gender and pay equity study that showed no systemic deficits, although about 80 employees were identified as outliers and had their salaries adjusted. \u00a0The gender and pay equity study is expected to be repeated every two years.<\/p>\n<p>The president also noted that the university must continue to improve its student enrollment, fiscal performance, transparency, Title IX program and its ability as an institution to proceed with speed and agility.<\/p>\n<p>The next regularly scheduled board of governors meeting is scheduled for April 26.\u00a0 The board agenda and other pertinent information is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/board\">www.marshall.edu\/board<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marshall University Board of Governors, meeting today for its regularly scheduled session, received informational reports on academics, finance and athletics, including a capital project update on Marshall\u2019s baseball stadium and a new multi-million-dollar financial push for athletics updates called the \u201cAll M.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25093,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25092\/revisions\/25093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}