LEANN BURKE / THE DEPAUW
The 2015 Board of Trustees retreat took place in Florida and focused on the University’s academic enterprise, the curriculum, the Fellows Programs and the 21st Century Musician Initiative in the School of Music.
WHAT HAPPENED:
-Renee Madison, Senior Advisor to the President for Diversity and Inclusion provided a formal update regarding the University’s recent efforts regarding Title IX and the evolving federal guidelines regarding college and university responses to incidents of sexual assault.
-Board of Trustees approved the next phase of construction on the Hubbard Center for Student Engagement.
-The Board set tuition levels for 2015-2016. Next year’s tuition and fees will be set at $44,674, which reflects a 4.5% increase.
-The Board announced a $6 million gift from the Theodore R. Peterson and Elizabeth Emison Peterson Living Trust. With this gift, total gifts and commitments to the DePauw Trust exceed $56 million and total gifts and commitments made to the University in The Campaign for DePauw have reached nearly $210 million.
-Associate Vice President for Facilities Dick Vance reported that the recently completed expansion and renovation of the Lilly Recreation Center has officially achieved LEED Gold status, a designation from the U.S. Green Building Council indicating that the building has met leading standards of sustainable construction and building use.
-The Lilly Center is now the third LEED certified building on DePauw’s campus (joining the Prindle Institute and the Bartlett Reflection Center, both of which are also LEED Gold status buildings).
2014- 2015 $42,050
2013-2014 $40,150
2012-2013 $38,280
2011-2012 $36,500
2010-2011 $34,440
2009-2010 $32,800
2008-2009 $31,400