Thursday, Nov. 16 was the second of three meetings held by the University of Wyoming Board of Trustees and the first where all of its voting members were present. Halfway through the eight hour meeting members of the WWAMI Medical Education program including Casey Pikla, a second-year medical student and President of the Medical Student…
The Board of Trustees met from Sept. 20-22 to discuss financial and construction decisions for the University of Wyoming and its students. One of the items discussed was adding a trailhead on the UW Jacobi ridge property. They plan to have a trailhead that provides parking, comfort facilities, restrooms, and gathering spaces. The main concern…
The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees met in the Union for the first time this semester. As the placement of the board meeting in the Union family room deviates from their usual meeting place in the Marian H. Rochelle Gateway Center. Location changes where the result of an expected sizable public involvement on the…
This article is the third, and final, of a series that has taken an in-depth look at the intricate situation regarding parking on campus. Further follow up stories may come as the story progresses, but this is the end of the series as originally planned. ASUW Senators criticize their own Executive Branch and the Board…
Holly Morgan hmorgan3@uwyo.edu Alec Schaffer aschaff3@uwyo.edu The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees passed the consent agenda for the Nov. 19 to 21 meeting Friday; it passed within an hour with all trustees in favor. The agenda passed included several motions, including the passing of the default motion to raise tuition 4 percent for the…
The UW faculty and staff will experience salary increases that are debatably not sufficient for the cost of living and could have rippling effects into the student body. The University of Wyoming board of trustees approved a $6.2 million plan for increases in salary and employer-paid benefits on March 26. This will include a 1.55…
The board of trustees has a gender problem- mainly that women are greatly underrepresented. Women are 53 percent of the total UW student population according to the fall 2014 enrollment summary, yet make up only 17 percent of the board of trustees, the university’s governing body. What is most disappointing is that the board continues…
The UW board of trustees is in compliance with the Wyoming Constitution for the first time in a year after recent gubernatorial appointments. Last year nine of the 12 trustees on the board were registered Republicans, violating a state statute permitting only seven members to belong to the same political party. Wyoming law also requires…
The Leapfrog group in Washington D.C. gave Laramie’s Ivinson Memorial Hospital a safety grade of ‘D,’ though many hospital administrators are questioning the legitimacy of the grade. Ivinson Memorial Hospital officials were surprised to hear that the Leapfrog group conducted a safety grade on the hospital without the hospital even completing the paperwork required for…
The Associated Students of the University of Wyoming has gone through many changes the past couple of weeks by electing new senators and appointing new leadership. President Brett Kahler and Vice President Kia Murdoch have a lot on their plates for this upcoming summer and academic year. Kahler and Murdoch will be participating in a…
The University of Wyoming’s new safety policy should be implemented beginning in May, pending approval by the Board of Trustees. Before the new policy is implemented, it will be reviewed by deans and department directors in March or April and then it will need to be passed by the Board of Trustees. While the policy…
