Regents to hear update on late campus alert system

By Journal staff | Wednesday, August 06, 2008

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The South Dakota Board of Regents will meet at Black Hills State University on Thursday and Friday, Aug. 7 and 8.

Discussion items will include building projects, a campus alert system, the fiscal year 2010 budget and 2009 Minnesota reciprocity rates.

The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. Thursday, when the regents meet in executive session to discuss personnel matters and collective bargaining.

The board meeting continues at 9 a.m. Friday. There will be comments from individual regents as well as presidents, superintendents and the regents' executive director.

The regents will get an update on the campus alert system. After the tragic events such as the shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University, the South Dakota Board of Regents has agreed to move forward with a plan to implement an emergency notification system at is campuses.

The system would be capable of contacting the campus community (including students, staff and faculty) by voice (landline phones and cell phones) text-messaging to cellular phones, e-mail and instant messaging during emergency situations.

Officials began the process of implementing a system in late March in hopes that the program could be running by April 30. That deadline came and went. During the discussion this week, officials will decide whether the campus alert system participation will be mandatory or voluntary. A decision about how to proceed is expected at the regents' October meeting.

Of interest to Black Hills State University at the meeting is a memorandum agreement between BHSU and Kyung Hee University of Korea. The agreement is intended to foster a collaborative program in education, research, training, curriculum, development and exchange of students, faculty and staff.

The agreement has been reviewed by the regents' chief academic officer and lawyers. The executive director recommends approval of the agreement.

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