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Votes at a glance: New College trustees approve tuition amendment, accountability plan, new AOC and other items
Summary
Trustees approved a slate of items on April 9, including a tuition-and-fees amendment, the 2025 accountability plan, an undergraduate AOC in International Commerce and Society, tenure for an applied statistics professor, and a campus naming opportunities list.
The New College of Florida Board of Trustees completed several formal actions on April 9. Most items were approved by roll-call votes after the board pulled two consent-agenda items for separate discussion.
Votes at a glance
- Consent agenda: Approved (two items—Master of Education program and proposed amendment to regulation 3‑1002—were pulled for separate discussion before the remainder of the consent items were approved).
- Approval: Proposed amendment to regulation 3‑1002 (tuition and fees). Roll-call votes recorded all voting trustees as yes.
- Approval: 2025 Accountability Plan. Approved by roll call (unanimous among voting trustees present).
- Approval: New AOC (Area of Concentration) in International Commerce and Society. Trustees voted to approve the new undergraduate AOC; one trustee noted the program had unanimous support in the relevant faculty division and confirmed the degree requires the standard thesis requirement.
- Approval: Tenure for Assistant Professor Andrei Skripnikov (applied statistics). The academic affairs committee recommended tenure; the board approved the tenure case by roll call.
- Approval: New College campus naming opportunities list. Trustees approved a list of current and future naming opportunities and discussed term lengths, potential permanent naming and the board-of-governors regulations that govern campus facility namings.
Details and votes
Tuition and fees amendment: Trustee Mickelson pulled the item to ask about student housing and the administration provided an update on the Banyan dorm renovations (mold and hurricane-related repairs) and plans to secure additional beds via a Home2 Suites contract; trustees voted to approve the tuition-and-fees amendment with all recorded votes in favor.
International Commerce and Society AOC: Professor Taran Kamraj and others described courses planned for the AOC (including accounting, economics, statistics, a business anthropology course and access to Bloomberg terminals). Trustee McDonald confirmed the AOC carries the same thesis requirement as other programs. The board approved the AOC by roll call.
Tenure case: Provost David Rohrabacher presented the tenure case for Assistant Professor Andrei Skripnikov, citing teaching, research collaborations with the Tampa Bay Estuary Program and work on sports analytics; the academic affairs committee unanimously recommended tenure and the board approved the recommendation.
Campus naming list: The New College Foundation presented a catalog of naming opportunities (classrooms, halls, new capital projects and programmatic naming). Trustees discussed term lengths (temporary naming terms versus permanent naming), how gifts intersect with construction costs and the process for returning specific naming approvals to the board for final sign-off. Trustees were told most facility namings require additional approvals by the Board of Governors and will return to trustees for final decisions.
Roll-call details: The board recorded roll-call votes for each item; where individual votes were recorded in the meeting transcript, they are reflected in each item’s action record. Most actions passed unanimously or with large majorities.
