FLORENCE---The Francis Marion University Board of Trustees will hold its summer meeting Friday, July 19, at 1 p.m. in the President’s Room of Ervin Dining Hall.

 Agenda items include the adoption of a $29.1 million operating budget for the 2002-2003 fiscal year;  the naming of a campus street for the late Robert C. Scott Jr., an educator and founder of the Pee Dee Education Center located adjacent to the campus;  and the establishment of six Trustees’ Research Scholars to be awarded to senior faculty members who have compiled a significant record of research and publication.

 Committee meetings are scheduled as follows:   9:30 a.m., Planning and Accreditation Committee, Palmetto East, and Financial Affairs and Responsibility Committee, Palmetto West;  9:45 a.m., Academic Affairs and Shared Governance Committee, Palmetto East, and Student Affairs Committee, Palmetto West;  10 a.m., Alumni Development Committee, Palmetto East, and University Development, Palmetto West.

 At 10:30 a.m. in the President’s Dining Room, trustees will hear an overview of student affairs by Joe Heyward and Darryl Bridges.  Faculty president Charlene Wages will give a report of the faculty at 11 a.m., and President Fred Carter will present a university overview at 11:30 a.m.

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