With 24 hours of notice, a meeting of the full newly appointed University of Louisville board of Trustees will be held. A main item on the limited agenda is approval of a budget for the current academic year. It contains the controversial 5% tuition increase and at least one other mandatory fee increase directly affecting students. I suspect that President Ramsey and /or his aids felt great pressure to approve a budget before the judicial hearing today in Frankfort following which the very legitimacy of the Board may be prolonged for some time more.
It is difficult to believe there has not been much discussion among Board members and the administration ahead of this meeting out of public view. I wonder how that could have been done without triggering open meeting requirements? The fiasco of the first meeting of this Board over apparent violation of open meeting law sharpens the focus on how the University and its Board of Trustees conducts their business. If the matter today is handled in a rubber-stamp manner we will be able to see the future. No human being can grasp the UofL budget in a single week! Continue reading “Surprise Full UofL Board Meeting Today.”