The Board of Trustees approved revisions to the Tarble Arts Center’s Resolution of Permanence and revised some of its own regulations at its meeting Friday.

Blair Lord, provots and vice president for academic affairs, said changes for the resolution have been brought up twice this semester.

“We’re in the process of preparing for accreditation,” he said.

The Tarble Arts center follows American Alliance of Museum’s standards, and revisions had to be made accordingly in order to be reaccredited.

Michael Watts, the director of the Tarble Arts Center, said the accreditation commission was asking for more specific language in the resolution, which led to the revision.

He said it was important to have language in the resolution saying that the center is valued as part of the university for providing lasting educational and intellectual resources.

Watts said he has heard of other institutions selling their collections and adding to the acquired money to their assets, and adding this language to the resolution can prevent this from happening in the future nationwide.

The board also added a new regulation agreement to its meeting times.

Leo Welch, the vice chairman of the Board of Trustees, said the modification to the public comment section of the board meetings were made in order to be in compliance with other universities.

This particular proposal allows members of the public and employees of the university to be afforded time to make comments or ask questions of the board at the end of each meeting.

“I surveyed public universities on their policies and proceedings regarding public comments,” Welch said.

“In reviewing the board policy, we had a statement about a disputed topic that was being addressed elsewhere and was not eligible for public comments,” he said.

Welch said no other university has a restriction such as this, and the new proposal will put Eastern in compliance with other universities.

The Board will have a final vote on the proposal in January.

Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs, made a presentation to the board about campus and community, which highlighted the successes of Eastern’s students in terms of campus involvement and volunteerism.

President Bill Perry made a presentation as well about program analysis, in which he talked about Eastern’s fiscal environment, declining state funding and pension reform.

He described to the board what the Steering Committee for Program Analysis plans to do and how a presentation will be made to the board in the future.

During committee reports, Robert Webb, the chairman of the finance and audit committee, announced that Eastern had received all of its funding it was owed by the state from FY 11 and FY 2012, which came out to about $5 million.

The board also approved two major purchases.

One was a fee of $247,000, which will be paid to exp U.S. Services for design services of a campus-wide security system.

The other was a programming and membership fee for WEIU because of increased programming costs and will cost Eastern $225,000.

The Board of Trustees’ next meeting will take place at 1 p.m. on Jan. 18, 2013 in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].