Rodin to brief Trustees at meeting

University President Judith Rodin will update the Executive Committee of the University's Board of Trustees on campus happenings over the last month at today's Stated Meeting. Before yesterday's University Council meeting -- the last of this year -- Rodin said many of the issues she planned to raise there would be included in her remarks to the Trustees today. At the meeting, Rodin addressed the visit of the Middle States accreditation committee to campus in early April to evaluate undergraduate education and briefed the Council on her recent trips to Harrisburg and Washington to push for continued funding for higher education. At today's meeting, Provost Stanley Chodorow will brief the Executive Committee before asking members to approve faculty appointments and promotions. The Committee is also expected to approve resolutions on the disposal of various University-owned properties in Chester County and Jackson Township, N. J. today. And it is expected to act upon resolutions for renovation of the Medical School's Johnson Pavilion and the naming of the Stellar-Chance Laboratories. Finally, Executive Vice President John Fry and University of Pennsylvania Health System Chief Executive Officer William Kelley will present financial and health system reports to the Committee. Before adjourning, the Trustees are expected to approve a number of other non-academic appointments, including that of Marjorie Rendell -- wife of Philadelphia Mayor and University alumnus Ed Rendell -- to the Board of Overseers of the School of Arts and Sciences. Architect Denise Scott Brown will join the Board of Overseers of the University Libraries. Her firm -- Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates -- handled the restoration of the Furness Building and is working on the Perelman Quadrangle student center project. The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in the Faculty Club's Tea Room at 2 p.m.

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