The University of Colorado’s nine-member Board of Regents is scheduled to vote on whether to hire Mark Kennedy as CU’s next president Thursday afternoon at a special meeting on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.
The regents will convene for a board meeting at 1 p.m. in Krugman Hall at CU Anschutz.
Regent Sue Sharkey, chair of the board, is expected to start the meeting with a closed-door executive session, during which the regents will discuss the presidential search.
That will be followed by a public session afterward. Any vote on whether to hire Kennedy, the sole finalist for the position, must take place in the public session.
Democratic Regents Irene Griego and Linda Shoemaker have announced they will vote against hiring Kennedy.
The former Republican congressman’s voting record in the early 2000s and his controversies within academia have drawn objections from students, faculty and staff at all four CU campuses and across the state.
The Republicans on the elected board have a one-vote majority.
