Baylor regents re-elect McLane chairman_60203

Posted: 5/30/03

Baylor regents re-elect McLane chairman

WACO--Drayton McLane of Temple has been re-elected chairman of the Baylor University board of regents.

McLane, chairman of the Houston Astros and McLane Group, will work alongside vice chairs Randy Ferguson, president of RWF Investments in Austin; Brian Harbour, pastor of First Baptist Church of Richardson; and Laree Estes Perez, vice president of Loomis, Sayles and Co. in Albuquerque, N.M.

In addition to officer elections, regents at their May 16 meeting adopted a $320.5 million budget for 2003-04 and approved plans to construct another parking garage.

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Posted: 5/30/03

Baylor regents re-elect McLane chairman

WACO–Drayton McLane of Temple has been re-elected chairman of the Baylor University board of regents.

McLane, chairman of the Houston Astros and McLane Group, will work alongside vice chairs Randy Ferguson, president of RWF Investments in Austin; Brian Harbour, pastor of First Baptist Church of Richardson; and Laree Estes Perez, vice president of Loomis, Sayles and Co. in Albuquerque, N.M.

In addition to officer elections, regents at their May 16 meeting adopted a $320.5 million budget for 2003-04 and approved plans to construct another parking garage.

Regents also approved stopping admissions into the doctor of education degree program for kindergarten through grade 12 administration and for higher education administration. The move also impacts the master of education degree for principal preparation.

According to a Baylor news release, the change was made “to reallocate resources to study and develop new graduate programs to more effectively serve public and private education.”

President Robert Sloan explained: “While we believe it is necessary to discontinue these current graduate programs in the School of Education, we are committed to continuing our efforts to develop new approaches in the preparation of leaders to serve in public and private education, both at the K-12 and higher education levels.”

The new budget provides for hiring 43 new faculty and staff and for a 27 percent increase in scholarships and fellowships. It also provides $3 million in renovation and deferred maintenance work.

It includes faculty raises based on merit. Staff salary adjustments will not be determined until September or October, said Baylor spokesman Larry Brumley, and are dependent upon enrollment numbers for freshmen and transfer students.

The increase in next year's budget “is being fueled by the second year of our new tuition structure,” Brumley explained. This was the first year for a new flat-rate tuition plan, from which previously enrolled students–mainly next year's juniors and seniors–were exempt.

The parking garage will be built on the current site of the Mark Twain Apartments, bounded by Cottonwood, Daughtrey, First and Second. The $10 million parking facility will support the new Baylor Sciences Building and the McLane Student Life Center.

Under terms of its current relationship with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, Baylor's board of regents elected three-fourths of the board itself, with the BGCT electing the remaining one-fourth. At the May meeting, regents re-elected nine of their members to new three-year terms: Mary Chavanne-Martin of Houston, David Sibley of Waco, Donell Teaff of Waco, Carl Bell of Dallas, Toby Druin of Waxahachie, Phil Lineberger of Sugar Land, McLane, Belinda Reyes of San Antonio and Jim Turner of Dallas.

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