FSU BOT meeting & shutdown update

https://trustees.fsu.edu/meetings/materials/20200417/Agenda-2020-04-17.pdf

Performing Based Funding statistics in PDF

FSU President John Thrasher is talking with the Board of Trustees about extending his term. It was supposed to end in November. Coronavirus shutdown would make a search almost impossible.

Chair Ed Burr says they may propose an extension of Thrasher's contract at June meeting.

— Warchant.com (@Warchant) April 17, 2020

https://floridastate.rivals.com/news/fsu-s-coburn-on-athletics-budgets-god-help-us-if-football-season-axed

From an overall university perspective, FSU President John Thrasher assured the trustees several times Friday that the university's financial footing is still solid despite the crisis.

"Right now, we're in sound shape," Thrasher said. "We have not had to furlough anybody. We have not had to lay off anybody."

He said he hopes that will remain the case moving forward, although the university has had a hiring freeze in place since March.

Thrasher said FSU is scheduled to receive $30 million in federal money as part of the government's economic recovery package.

"We will be OK going into the fall, I can assure you of that," Thrasher said, before acknowledging that the future could be cloudy if the campus is unable to open the campus to students in the fall.

Like virtually all universities, FSU students finished the spring semester online, and the school will continue to operate that way throughout the summer.

Thrasher said a decision doesn't have to be made about bringing students back this fall until July at the latest. But if students don't return in August, Thrasher said, it will have a "big impact on the budget for next year."