Today - Volume 02, Number 15

              Loma Linda University
Loma Linda University Medical Center
Adventist Health System / Loma Linda IOLW
Wednesday, August 30, 1989 COMA LINDA UNIV. LIBRAE'
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Volume 2, Number 15
LOiviA LiJMDA, CA 9^ 350
LLU Trustees vote to restructure University
The Lx> ma Linda University
Board of Trustees voted on Mon
day, August 28, 1989, to restruc
ture the University, in effect mak
ing it a single university with a
dual organizational structure.
The 33- 3 decision to provide
separate operating boards and
chancellors for each campus, but
retaining a single board of trustees
and a single president, was made
at a three- day board retreat held
in Palm Springs. The new
organizational structure will
become effective on January 1,
1990.
In the plan, each campus will
receive separate accreditation
from the Western Association of
Schools and Colleges. In the past,
there has been one accreditation
for both campuses.
Each campus will be supervis
ed by separate operating boards,
which report to the University
president and a central board of
trustees on major decisions and
matters of policy. At the present
time, both campuses are admin
istered by one president and one
board of trustees.
Norman J. Woods, PhD, cur
rently president of LLU, was
unanimously elected president
and chief executive officer in the
new organizational plan.
Dr. Woods is heading a search
for the two chancellors, who will
be responsible for the day- to- day
operations on each campus. He
will make his recommendations
at the board's next meeting in
October, to be held in Washing
ton, D. C. At that meeting, the
board will also refine details of the
reorganization.
Reacting to the board's deci
sion, president Norman J.
Woods, PhD, said: " This clear
mandate and the statement of
support indicated by the board's
decisive vote provides the basis
that the institution has needed to
aggressively pursue the fulfillment
of its mission and the resolution
of current challenges."
The Loma Linda University Board of Trustees meet at the Wyndham Palm Spring hotel on Monday, August 28. The
trustees met in a three- day retreat session. During their meeting, they voted to restructure the University, in effect
making a single university with a dual organizational structure.
Fiftieth infant receives new heart at LLUMC
T\\ enty- day- old Katherine
Ix; hto on August 20 became the
fiftieth infant under seven months
of age to receive a heart trans
plant at Lxmna LJnda Uni\ ersity
Medical Center. Ninety percent
of the 50 have survived.
The three- hour surgery \ vas
performed by Steven Gundry,
MIX associate professor of
surgery and pediatrics.
Baby Katherine was born with
hypoplastic left- heart syndrome,
a lethal underdevelopment of the
left side of the heart. She \ vas
referred to Loma LJnda from
Kngland, where her father is sta
tioned with the United States Air
Force.
The infant heart transplant pro
gram at Loma Linda began on
November 20, 1985 when Leo
nard Bailey, MD, chief of pediatric
cardio- thoracic surgery, trans
planted a one- ounce heart into
Baby Moses, at four da\ s of age.
At the time, the infant was the
youngest person in the world to
undergo heart transplantation.
Baby Moses ( Kddie Anguiano) is
now almost four years old.
The infant heart transplant pro
gram at L^ oma LJnda has led to
an increasingly comprehensive
understanding of the immune
system in newborns. It has pav
ed the way for new technology
in the administering and monitor
ing of immunosuppressive med
icines ( which are designed to pre
vent the rejection of transplanted
organs), and eventually to minor
improvements in surgical tech
niques. Baby Katherine is the sec
ond baby of a U. S. serviceman to
be referred from England. Eight
Canadian babies also have receiv
ed new hearts in I^ oma LJnda.
School of Nursing announces
degree program for nurses
' ITie School of Nursing is pleas
ed to announce a program for
registered nurses to obtain their
bachelor of science degrees
while working.
Full time students taking 14- 16
units per quarter may complete
the program in four quarters if the
general education requirements
and prerequisites have been
completed.
Created for the registered
nurse with an associate of
science degree or diploma in nurs
ing from a National League for
Nursing accredited school, lower
division credits of 105 units may
be transferred in; nursing credits
( 30 units) from the basic nursing
program are accepted as
equivalent to the first clinical year
of the LAA'SN nursing cur
riculum. A bridge course has
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Trustees' chairman Neal C.
Wilson, who is also president of
the General Conference of
Seventh- day Adventists, said that
" the study done by the Select
Commission led the board to its
clear conclusion and nearly
unanimous decision that the
University should remain as one
institution with a separate
administrative structure."
He noted the solid contribution
each campus makes, both to the
University as a whole and to the
world- wide work of the church.
" On the Loma Linda campus, the
health- related schools and Loma
Linda University Medical Center
are well known for a special sense
of mission, not only in providing
quality health care and health
science education, but also na
tional and international outreach
programs.
" Similarly, the board noted the
contribution of the La Sierra cam
pus to the overall strength of the
University, including the interna
tional extendion programs, that
are added to a united Universi
ty," Pastor Wilson said.
One advantage of the new or
ganizational structure that the
board noted was that it allows
both campuses to retain the
Loma Linda University name,
while at the same time giving
each campus a high degree of self
determination including separate
accreditation, leadership, gover
nance, budgeting, finance, and
operating policies. It will also
enable both campuses to develop
specific but complementary
missions.
Other advantages include the
utilization of the facilities already
in place, and allows for continued
sharing of the existing centraliz
ed services. It does not jeopardize
university- level programs and na
tional and international contracts
already in place.
A select commission establish
ed by the board at its June meet
ing explored several organiza
tional options, and presented
each option to the board, to
gether with its advantages and
disadvantages.
The commission was headed
by Gordon Madgwick, PhD, ex
ecutive secretary for the North
American Division Board of
Higher Education. He was
assisted by Charles T. Smith, Jr.,
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