New College to Host Florida Board of Governors

New College of Florida is hosting a meeting of the Board of Governors of the State University System of Florida on Thursday, September 12. The meeting will be from 8 a.m. until approximately 3:30 p.m. in the Sudakoff Conference Center on the College’s Pei Campus.
The 17-member Board of Governors is the governing body of the state university system, akin to the board of directors of a corporation. Chancellor Frank T. Brogan is the university system’s leader and administrator, analogous to a chief executive officer.
The Sept. 12 board meeting is noteworthy, as it will be Brogan’s last. After heading the Florida system since 2009, he is leaving to become the chancellor of Pennsylvania’s higher education system, effective Oct. 1. New College is also hosting a farewell reception for Brogan on Sept. 11.
Among the major items on the meeting’s agenda:
• The board is expected to consider the methodology for allocating $20 million in performance funding to the system’s colleges. The action is in response to a legislation passed last year by the Florida legislature that would tie some education funding to measures such as the percentage of a college’s graduates who are employed or pursuing further education, graduates’ average wages, and the college’s cost per graduate.
• The board also will vote on the legislative budget request for 2014-2015 state-appropriated operating funds.
The meeting is expected to bring about 100 education officials to campus, including the governors, board staff, college presidents and their assistants. To accommodate them, New College will be closing the Sudakoff parking lot on Wednesday, Sept. 11 and Thursday, Sept. 12. All cars must be cleared from the lot on by 8 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11. The lot will re-open after the end of the Board of Governors meeting on Thursday, Sept. 12.