Regent Shauna Ryder Diggs will serve as the next chair of the Board of Regents for a one-year term beginning July 1. Regent Mark Bernstein was named vice chair when the appointments were announced Thursday by Regent Katherine White at the board’s monthly meeting.

According to the regents’ bylaws, the chair and vice chair are appointed based on seniority, and the vice chair automatically succeeds to the position of chair.

Primary duties of the chair include: setting the annual schedule of meetings, agenda and major topics for presentation or study by the board; monitoring committee agenda planning for coordination and comprehensiveness; acting as spokesperson and convener of the board, when appropriate; presiding over executive sessions when held without the president; and appointing the chair and members of the ad hoc and standing committees.

If the president is unable to attend a public meeting or must be out of the room during any part of the meeting, the chair will preside. If the chair is unable to perform the duties, the vice chair will assume them.

President Mark Schlissel thanked White and Ryder Diggs for their leadership in the last year.

Schlissel said he appreciated White’s “conscientious work on behalf of the university. It was a pleasure to work with you in this past year. Regent White (you have) been invaluable. You made the year special and much better than it would have been.”

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