The full Board of Visitors will convene Wednesday and hold 12 meetings between Thursday and Saturday. The upcoming meetings are one of the four times the full Board meets regularly per year, and all meetings will be livestreamed with the exception of the Health System Board meeting Thursday morning and Saturday’s four meetings.
The four meetings taking place Saturday are not meetings of official Board committees. Instead, they will cover four of the seven areas Board Rector Carlos Brown identified as subjects he intends to focus the Board’s attention to during the March 5 meeting of the full Board — Accountability and Aligned Governance, Affordability and Accessibility, Athletic Competitiveness and Advancing Patient Care and Saving Lives. He said March 5 that these are areas where the Board’s “leadership and engagement can have a positive impact on the University,” according to the meeting minutes.
All upcoming meetings will be held at Boar’s Head Resort or at the Rotunda with the exception of the four meetings Saturday which will be held at Morven in the Meeting Barn. Saturday’s four meetings do not have meeting agendas posted online.
The meeting of the full Board will take place Friday afternoon and is the final meeting before the Board retreats to Morven Saturday. The full Board will meet in both open and closed session.
The Board will elect members to the governing council of the Miller Center — a University nonpartisan institution that explores the effects of U.S. presidencies — and will review gifts and grants the University received in fiscal year 2026. University President Scott Beardsley will present the President’s Report and Brown will present on Board governance. Mitch Rosner, U.Va. Health chief executive officer and executive vice president for health affairs, and David O. Okonkwo, professor of neurological surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, will present to the full Board as members of HSB.
The Board will also thank Jim Lambert, outgoing faculty representative to the Board and Engineering professor, for his service to the Board. Lambert served since July 1, 2025 and Jeri Seidman, outgoing Faculty Senate chair and associate Commerce professor, will begin serving as faculty representative to the Board July 1.
The HSB is the first of the 12 meetings and will take place at Boar’s Head Resort in both open and closed sessions from 8:30 a.m. to noon Thursday. The HSB oversees the operations and provides governance for the University Medical Center, the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing.
According to the HSB meeting book for Thursday, the Board received written reports from the Medical Center, School of Medicine and School of Nursing, and the operations of these three entities will be reviewed in closed session. HSB will also consult with legal counsel during closed session to ensure compliance with federal and state legal requirements, and it will discuss initiatives including recruitment and retention strategies.
In open session, U.Va. Health Assistant Chief Novella Thompson will discuss the care U.Va. Health provides beyond its “physical spaces” of the hospital. HSB will also hear from Dacre Knight, medical director of the U.Va. Health Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes and Hypermobility Disorders Center, and Ina Stephens, professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Diseases and
Integrative Medicine at the Medical Center and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Consultant for U.Va. Children’s Hospital, regarding the care their team provides for patients with EDS and hypermobility disorders.
HSB will also review financials from fiscal year 2026 and the operating budget of $42 million for fiscal year 2027.
The Committee on the College at Wise is responsible for overseeing the College at Wise and bringing the school’s “needs and concerns to the attention” of the Board. The Committee will meet only in open session Thursday. Committee Chair Marvin Gilliam is recommending seven members for re-appointment to the College at Wise local advisory board, and the Committee will vote on these reappointments for terms of four years, ending June 30, 2030. College at Wise Chancellor Donna Henry will also present a report which includes projected recruitment and enrollment for Fall 2026.
The Academic and Student Life Committee — which oversees matters “relating to athletics, culture and safety, educational policy and research programs” — will meet following the Committee on the College at Wise. In closed session, the Committee will discuss faculty personnel actions. A proposal for the Henry B. Mulholland professorship in Internal Medicine II will be voted on by the Committee in open session, as well as an approval to reinstate the University’s Master of Arts in Chemistry program.
Further, the Committee will establish three new professorships — in Bibliographical Studies in the Department of English, in American Constitutionalism and Democracy and in Early Childhood Education and Development. The Committee will also hear a report on the recent work of University faculty.
The Buildings and Grounds Committee meeting is the final meeting Thursday. The Committee approves the design and planning for new buildings on Grounds, is responsible for “matters relating to land use and the physical plant” and selects architects and engineers for new spaces.
The Committee will meet only in open session and will review written reports for the Amended Capital Project Procurement Process, proposed revisions for the fiscal year 2027 Major Capital Plan and will review a written sustainability report.
Additionally, the Committee will vote to demolish the Ivy Road police station which was built in the 1950s and, according to the meeting book, is not in a state in which renovation would efficiently fix the building’s issues. Also receiving approval Thursday is a plan to develop and construct the Main Heat Plant Fuel Conversion — the project intends to replace the main plant’s coal heat input with natural gas and fuel oil.
The fiscal year 2027 Major Capital Plan is also up for approval Thursday. The Buildings and Grounds Committee is proposing the addition of an athletics multipurpose practice field, an image guided surgery suite in the University Hospital and a cardiac PET/CT suite at the U.Va. Health location 500 Ray C. Hunt Dr. It is also proposing the planning and design for a Copeley connector road and Core Lab renovations within U.Va. Health. Current construction projects will be discussed alongside financials and progress timelines.
The Finance Committee, which oversees all matters relating to approving the University's annual budget, setting tuition rates and approving the investment of the endowment, will meet Friday morning in open session only.
The Committee is proposing a $7 billion operating budget for the University’s Academic Division, Medical Center and the College at Wise for fiscal year 2026-27. Budget increases are proposed for all three entities, with the Academic Division seeing the largest increase from fiscal year 2026 to 2027 of $71.4 million. The Committee will also approve finances for the updates to the Major Capital Plan introduced by the Buildings and Grounds Committee.
Finance Committee members will discuss a debt and agency report and the strategic investment fund, and review the written report for retirement plans of University employees.
The Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee is on the docket following the Finance Committee meeting. The Committee oversees the audit and compliance of University divisions to prevent financial, compliance, strategic and operational risks. ACR will meet Friday in both open and closed sessions.
In closed session, the Committee will discuss a recent data security breach and the implementation of an IT system. The Committee will approve a two-year internal audit plan in open session and hear the received written reports regarding the University audit department, institutional compliance, academic division privacy and records and information management in open session.
The Advancement Committee is responsible for University development, alumni affairs and public communications. It will meet only in open session Friday to discuss a fundraising progress report and a philanthropic gift from a “generous donor” whose name is not specified in the agenda.
Thursday and Friday’s meetings will be held at either Boar’s Head Resort or at the Rotunda. Saturday’s meetings — covering four of the seven focus areas identified by Brown at the March 5 full Board meeting — will be held at Morven, and do not have meeting agendas posted online.
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