Board of trustees to consider $28.5 million graduate student housing
The Central Michigan University Board of Trustees will consider spending $28.5 million for graduate student housing on Bellows Street at its meeting Thursday.
CMU proposes the apartments to replace the loss of 128 Washington Court Apartments on campus.
The new apartments would contain 94 units of one, two and four bedroom units, located west of the Carlin Alumni house.
The project would be funded by Auxiliary Services and local bank financing.
Trustees will also discuss a $1.5 million renovation to Real Food on Campus residential restaurant in the Towers complex.
The project would fund a new front entrance, energy-efficient lighting, new technology, three food station renovations and a new Mongolian-style grill. The project would be funded by Residences and Auxiliary Services.
The meeting will take place at 9 a.m. in the President's Conference Room, room 300, in the Bovee University Center.
University President George Ross will also give a report, and Pamela Gates, dean of the College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Merodie Hancock, vice president of off-campus and online programs, will also present to the board.
Committee meetings for trustees will be held Wednesday and are open.
The academic and student affairs committee will meet from 11:10 a.m. to 11:40 a.m. in the President's Conference Room.
The finance and facilities committee will meet from 1 to 2 p.m. in the same room.
The College of Medicine committee will meet from 2:10 to 2:40 p.m. in the same room, led by trustee Sam Kottamasu and others.
Trustees will meet with a faculty liaison from 5 to 6 p.m. in the UC's Maroon and Gold room, where the Faculty Association will urge the university to return to the bargaining table to resolve contract conflct, FA President Laura Frey said in a press release.
The trustees will meet with a student liaison from the student government association from 6:05 to 7 p.m. in the President's Conference room.
The FA will gather at 8:20 a.m. Thursday outside the UC before the meeting as a sign of unity, Frey said.
