Highlights: December MAC Meeting

Opening Comments from the Dean
David S. Wilkes, MD

• Implications of HR 1, Tax Cut and Jobs Act, on Graduate Student Stipends
  • Negative impact upon our students, UVA, and nation
    • College will be less affordable
    • Discourages participation in higher education
    • Discourages employer investment in employee learning
    • Decreases US competitiveness
    • Brightest minds will go outside of the US to advance
  • Elimination of Section 117(d) provisions
    • Devastating to research programs
    • No longer able to provide tax-free tuition for graduate students
      • Example: stipend of $24K and tuition waiver of $29K – student’s tax bill triples to $4,920
    • Erodes progress made in developing strong interest in STEM programs
      • Puts STEM education out of the reach of many students
    • Our legislators
      • Senator Tim Kaine
        231 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington DC 20510
        (202) 224-4024
        kaine.senate.gov/contact
      • Senator Mark R. Warner
        703 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington DC 20510
        (202) 224-2023
        warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Contact
      • Thomas Garrett
        415 Cannon House Office Building, Washington DC 20515-4605
        (202) 225-4711
        https://tomgarrett.house.gov/email-congressman-tom-garrett
    • Themes of Incoming UVA President Ryan
      • Community: opportunity to interact with and learn from a broadly diverse group of students, faculty, staff
      • Discovery: new knowledge that solves problems, leads to practical application, and brings new perspective to enduring questions
      • Service: public universities serve the public, starting with their own states
    • New Strategic Hire: Ken Walsh, PhD. Professor of CV Medicine and Director, Whitaker CV Institute, at Boston University SOM. Starts January 25, 2018. $.9M year one, $3.5M over five years.

Overview of Equal Opportunity & Civil Rights Policies and Reporting Options
Catherine Spear, AVP Equal Opportunity & Civil Rights
Emily Babb, AVP for Title IX Compliance & Title IX Coordinator

• Presentation addressed:
  • Notice of non-discrimination and equal opportunity
  • Policy of Sexual and Gender-Based Harassment and Other Forms of Interpersonal Violence (Title IX Policy)
  • Preventing and Addressing Discrimination and Harassment (PADH Policy) and Preventing and Addressing Retaliation (PAR Policy)
  • Why reporting is important
  • How to report prohibited conduct under these policies
  • How to address prohibited conduct
• See presentation.

December Health System Board Update
A. Bobby Chhabra, MD, Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery

• Dr. Chhabra shared highlights from the December 6, 2017, HSB meeting. The HS goals dashboard showed notable improvement in solid organ and bone marrow transplants and addition investments by Seed & Venture Funds, moving these two indicators to green. All other categories are yellow.
• FY18 first-quarter financial results were shared.

The next meeting will be Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, in the BIMS Classroom.

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