His campaign for a one-year sequence of remedial courses ignited a campus furor, with students and a few trustees on one side and faculty members, irate about the intrusion of trustees on academic turf, on the other.
Esther Van Sant is one of three trustees on the Violette de Mazia Trust, an arts education organization dedicated to Dr. Barnes's art appreciation methods.
In all, 38 of the foundations on the list reported just one or two trustees on their tax forms, while 46 listed three or four.
Marge Sodemann, one of two voting trustees on the university's 10-member board who adamantly defend the chief, is a staunch Republican from the prairie.
At one point, Mr. Henry asked the four trustees on the board to resign; they refused.
He now says that the new trustees on his board are independent, although he acknowledges that one of them is a former college professor of his.
"I can see a whole new field opening up for investment banks in advising pension-fund trustees on the corporate-finance implications of takeover transactions," says one prominent former investment banker.But the state insurance schemes also need fixing.
"There will be three trustees on each of the four trust funds and in each of those three trustees, one will be the parent of the child".
The university began notifying trustees on Friday.
They are two of the five trustees on CommonWealth's board.
The commission trustees on Friday issued a strong reproach.
