Report of Regents Higher Education/Professional Practice Joint Meeting Committee to The Board of Regents

Your Professional Practice and Higher Education Joint Committee held its scheduled meeting on March 15, 2021. All members participated in the meeting by video conference call except Regent Josephine Victoria Finn.

ACTION ITEMS

Motion for Action by Full Board

Chancellor and Colleagues:  Your Professional Practice and Higher Education Joint Committees recommends, and we move, that the Board of Regents act affirmatively upon each recommendation in the written report of the Committee’s deliberations at its meeting on March 15, 2021, copies of which have been distributed to each member of the Board of Regents.

Matters Requiring Board Action

Designation of Regents Physician Shortage Areas PPC/HE (A) 1 - Your Committee discussed the list of shortage areas to be used for the 2021 Regents Physician Loan Forgiveness Program application cycle. Your Committee approved the use of the list for the 2021 application cycle and ask that it be communicated to the field immediately.