{"id":22752,"date":"2026-08-07T09:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=22752"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:30:28","slug":"purdue-university-board-of-trustees-meeting-recap-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2026\/Q3\/purdue-university-board-of-trustees-meeting-recap-6","title":{"rendered":"Purdue University Board of Trustees meeting recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Purdue University<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Board of Trustees<\/a> on Friday (Aug. 7) approved its 10-year capital projects plan, a strategic document running through 2037 that will inform the university\u2019s capital request to the state for the upcoming legislative session and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other action, trustees approved 2027 health plans that will feature no premium increases for employees and long-term disability members \u2014 after back-to-back years of increases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The board also approved named professorships and deanships, distinguished professors, the appointment of the new director of Intercollegiate Athletics, and resolutions of appreciation and namings, among its actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trustees approve 10-year capital plan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trustees approve 2027 health plans with no premium increase for employees<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trustees approve named professorships and deanships, distinguished professors, appointment of new athletics director, resolutions of appreciation and namings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See the stories on each in <strong>Purdue Today<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Purdue University<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Purdue University is a research institution ranked among the top 10 public universities in the United States. More than 106,000 students study at Purdue across multiple campuses, including more than 57,000 at our main campus locations in West Lafayette and Indianapolis. As a land-grant university committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue\u2019s main campus has frozen tuition 14 years in a row, enabling more students than ever to graduate debt-free.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"note\" class=\"post-content__attribution \">\n    <div class=\"columns\"> \n                    <div class=\"column\"> \n                <p class=\"post-content__source\">\n                    <strong>Media contact:<\/strong> Trevor Peters, <a href=\"mailto:peter237@purdue.edu\">peter237@purdue.edu<\/a>                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2014 The Purdue University Board of Trustees on Friday (Aug. 7) approved its 10-year capital projects plan, a strategic document running through 2037 that will inform the university\u2019s capital request to the state for the upcoming legislative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":16501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[],"department":[],"source":[29],"purdue_today_topic":[79],"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-22752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-board-of-trustees","source-purdue-news","purdue_today_topic-board-of-trustees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22752"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22772,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22752\/revisions\/22772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22752"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=22752"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=22752"},{"taxonomy":"purdue_today_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/purdue_today_topic?post=22752"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}