[2010-05-21] May 21, 2010 Meeting of the Board of Visitors of Virginia Commonwealth University

              May 21, 2010
Meeting of the Board of Visitors of
Virginia Commonwealth University
Minutes
A regular meeting of the Board of Visitors of Virginia Commonwealth University was
held on Friday, May 21, 2010, at 8:30 a.m. in the Richmond Salons located in the
University Student Commons at 907 Floyd Avenue.
Present were Mesdames Rhodes (Rector), and Lambert; Messrs. Hurtado, Jones,
McCandlish, Robertson, Rosenthal, Siegel and Snead; and Drs. Bersoff, Broaddus,
Doswell, Romano and Shapiro. Mr. Jackson was absent. Also present were Drs. Rao,
Huff, Macrina, Moriarty, Retchin, Rhone, Rodriquez and Warren; Messrs. Bennett,
Bunce, Gehring, Jez, Turnage, Ream, Ross and Wyeth; and Mesdames Atkinson, Balmer,
and Lepley. Ms. Aiken, student representative to the Board, was also present.
The meeting was called to order and members of the press were welcomed.
The Report of the President followed. The following faculty, students and staff were
introduced to the Board: Ms. Toni-Leslie James, Dr. Shiv N. Khanna, Dr. Mary Jo Grap,
Ms. Rachel Kopelovich, Mr. Gabriel Walker, Mr. Brian Nguyen, Ms. Laura Burns, Dr.
Jameel Dennis, Dr. Arthur Reber and Kwaku Osei.
Mr. Jones reported for the Academic and Health Affairs Policy Committee. A Proposal to
Change the Structure of the School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine:
Merging Quality Health Care with General Internal Medicine was presented. The
Division of Quality Health Care was newly formed in 1996 under the direction and vision
of Dr. Richard Wenzel with a mission to pursue many initiatives, including matters
related to hospital epidemiology and infection control. The Department is now requesting
to merge the Division of Quality Health Care and related personnel into the Division of
General Internal Medicine, which will reduce the number of divisions in the Department
from ten to nine. The Academic and Health Affairs Policy Committee recommended to
the full Board the approval of a Proposal to Change the Structure of the School of
Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine: Merging Quality Health Care with General
Internal Medicine.
A Proposal to Establish an Undergraduate Certificate in Product Innovation was
presented. The VCU da Vinci Center for Innovation requests approval to establish an
Undergraduate Certificate in Product Innovation. The Certificate will be administered by
the da Vinci Center for Innovation in collaboration with VCU’s Schools of Arts, Business
and Engineering and intended for undergraduate students in these schools. Employing an