The University Board of Trustees' executive committee will meet today to discuss the search for new administrators and the planning of Whitman College, the sixth residential college.
No final decision on these issues will be made until the full board of trustees meets later this spring.
"The meeting will be mostly housekeeping," said University Vice President and Secretary Tom Wright '62.
"It would be an opportunity for the members of the executive committee to ask questions of the president and the provost," he said.
Today the executive committee will hear the progress made by the search committees which have been working to find new deans for the Wilson School, the School of Engineering, the Graduate School and the School of Architecture.
The board commissioned an architect to explore the feasibility of the planned construction of Whitman College, taking into consideration the 500-student increase in the student body.
The committee will discuss the progress of the study, but the results will not be released until later this spring, Wright said.
The college, which was planned to accommodate the increase in student enrollment called for by the Wythes report, is named for Meg Whitman '77, the CEO of eBay Inc.
Whitman, who is also a University trustee, recently announced a $30 million gift to support construction of the new college.
With the opening of Whitman College, there will be a total of six residential colleges in operation. The University plans to turn Whitman, Mathey and Butler colleges into four-year colleges that will offer housing to undergraduates of all classes. The two existing colleges will undergo renovations to become four-year colleges.
In addition, the University is seeking to fill several administrative vacancies left by the high turnover after President Shapiro's resignation.
The board of trustees chose today for its meeting date because tomorrow is the University's annual Alumni Day.
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