Morehead State University - Raconteur Yearbook (Morehead, KY)

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Features 60 naanaog...u. 1? Former Kentucky governor Louie B. Nunn chairs the Board ofRegents. Nunn was appointed by Governor Matha Layne Collins in 1986. The boardk vice-chairman and second in command is Edwin T. Breathitt, an executive with Norfolk Southern corporation.

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were home economics teachers. His brother was Superinten- dent of Schools on Long Island, NY, but is now retired and lives in Santa Barbara, CA. After graduating from college, Pres. Grote taught high school for six years, 1950-1956, in three different schools. Two were rural southern Illinois schools and the last was a very large, fancy, suburban high school in Skokee, IL, a wealthy suburb of northern Chicago. The last year there he served as Director of Adult Education. iiThat was my first introduction to administration, I suppose. I was in Charge of the adult education program at Niles Township High School where I taught during the day, and directed the adult program at night. In 1956, Pres. Grote came to Frankfort, KY, to join the State Department of Education and worked out of the office of Public Instruction from August 1957 to August 1958. iiThat was my first experience in Kentucky and I fell in love with it? Then he went back to the University of Illinois to get his doctorate. He had received his Masters from the University of Mississippi at Columbia. While working towards his doctorate, he received an offer to come to Morehead. ffMy first office was on the second floor On October 30, 1987, C. Nelson Crote be- came the University,s 11th president. He and his wife, Wilma, were first part of the University when Pres. Crote was the Dean ofthe School oprplied Sciences and Tech- nology in 1966. PHOTO BY: Ray Bradley of Lappin Hall and, ironically, my first secretary was Betty Philley who is with me now. We started out together? He was appointed as Chairman of the Division of the Ap- palachian Arts, a brand new division. He was an associate professor for three years and then a full professor. On July 1 , 1 966, when Morehead changed from a college to a state University, he was promoted to the position of first Dean of the School of Applied Sciences and Technology. At the time, business was also included in this school. In May 1971, he left for the presidency of Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Mich., one of the suburbs of Detroit. He was there for 10 years and three months. In 1981, he moved to Spokane, Wash, and was there until July 1, 1987. He had an unusual title, ChiefExecutive Officer of the Community Colleges of Spokane, which would nor- mally be called Chancellor. He was responsible for a system of colleges. uIn other words, I had presidents reporting to me? From his job in Spokane, Pres. Grote came back to More- head. After the first time I left Kentucky I said if I ever got the chance to come back, I would. He returned to head the University as president. . e By: Donna Wills 59

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Board of Regents Story By: Christie Sheppard Photos By: Kevin L. Goldy ho are the Board of Regents and what do they do? The Board of Regents is composed of ten members. Eight members are appointed by the governor, the faculty regent is elected by the entire faculty, and the student regent is traditionally the stu- dent body president, unless the president is from out of state. In this case, an election ofthe student regent is held. The current board, which was appointed in 1986 by Cover- nor Martha Layne Collins, includes former governor Louis B. Nunn, the board chairman; former governor Edward T. Breathitt, the board vice-chairman and an executive with Norfolk Southern corporation; J. Calvin Aker, a former state supreme court justice who is now in private law practice in London, Ky.; Barbara J. Curry, commissioner of social services for the Lexington-Fayette urban county government; Walter W. Carr, Morehead businessman; Dr. Allan M. Lansing, direc- tor of the Humana Heart Institute in Louisville; William R. Seaton, the former vice-chairman of the board and the chief financial officer of Ashland Oil, Inc. and Charles D. Wheeler, president of Wheeler and Williams in Ashland, who also served on the board from 1969 to 1973. Dr. Alban Wheeler, professor of sociology, serves as the faculty regent. Greg Ramey of Inez, vice-president of the Student Government Association, is the student regent. The board also has a secretary and a treasurer. These posi- tions are filled by election, not by appointment. Carol John- son, the university presidentis secretary, serves as the board secretary and Porter Dailey, Vice-president of fiscal aHairs, is the treasurer of the board. The board is, in essence, the University,s chief governing body. According to Dr. Wheeler, uThe members are not just governing. In many ways they are advocates for the Univer- sity. Louie Nunn once remarked, The only interest we have on the board is to make this a viable university and to serve higher education and the Morehead community. The duties of the board, which is required to meet at least four times a year, are provided for in the Kentucky Statutes. These duties include, the promotion of the mission and goals of the university; the creation and or discontinuance of degrees; the appointment of faculty or administrative person- nel; the determination of salary guidelines and establishment ofinsurance; the establishment and or discontinuance of any faculty rank; the adoption of policies for granting leaves of absences and the approval of promotions for administrative and faculty members; the establishment of policies for grant- ing tenure; the regulation of government and discipline of students and faculty; the approval of budget policies for stu- dent financial aid; the fixing of special charges and or fees subject to the Council on Higher Educationis approval; the issuance of revenue bonds to finance projects; the care and preservation of all university property; provide for submis- sion of reports and budget requests that are required by state government; the approval of the annual budget, and the for- mulation and revision of long range plans. In addition to these enumerated powers, the board can provide help in other ways. With a board so rich in experi- ence, Dr. Wheeler hopes that the members can use their outside resources to help enrich the campus. By doing this, the board members can obtain a better understanding of the university and can become a valuable asset to the programs. The average board meeting involves the discussion and approval or disapproval of an agenda that is presented by the President. This agenda contains personnel and operational policies, budgetary items, academic policies, and a number of other routine items that relate to the operation of the Univer- sity. Three major policies approved by the board this year were for the funding of intercollegiate athletics, the academic free- dom and tenure of the faculty and the adoption of personnel classification and evaluation of non-faculty University em- ployees. . Board of Regents 61