The Board of Regents will discuss the appointment of members to the Presidential Search and Screen Advisory Committee during its meetings in Cedar Falls this week.

As soon as the members for the committee are approved, the search will begin to replace ISU President Martin Jischke, who is leaving Iowa State in August for the Purdue University presidency.

“As soon as we approve the list, the process will probably be going,” said Regent Lisa Ahrens.

The search will be composed of 10 faculty representatives, one dean, three staff members, four students, four alumni and three representatives selected by Owen Newlin, president of the Board of Regents.

Robert Barak, deputy executive director and director of Academic Affairs for the board, will also serve on the committee.

The regents have selected Korn/Ferry International of Chicago to assist in the search. Benjamin Allen, dean of the College of Business, will act as chairman.

“We hope to start interviewing candidates by December,” Ahrens said.

Iowa State is requesting that the new honors building that will be erected on central campus should be named the Martin C. Jischke Honors Building.

The university is also requesting the Children’s Garden in Reiman Gardens to be named the Patty Jischke Children’s Garden, after the president’s wife.

The proposed schematic design for the $2 million honors building will be up for approval at this week’s meetings.

Also, Iowa State is requesting permission to continue planning for the south-end zone expansion of Jack Trice Stadium, which will increase seating capacity and construct an indoor practice facility for ISU basketball and volleyball teams.

Ahrens said all three state universities have proposed new buildings to the regents recently.

“It seems to be a real ongoing process of schematic designs coming before the board,” Ahrens said.

The College of Business will be proposing an $11 million building to work toward its goal of becoming the best land-grant business college in the nation.

“We have been talking about a building for a number of years,” said Labh Hira, associate dean for the College of Business.

The number of students majoring in business has increased 25 percent during the last five years, while the faculty has increased by 23 percent, Hira said.

“We’re in very preliminary stages,” Hira said. “It’s going to depend upon when the funding is approved by the state.”

The meetings will be Wednesday and Thursday.

Other items to be discussed include:

* Approval of the sale of 83.38 acres of university land near Mortensen Road and State Street to the Ames School District. Iowa State and the district had agreed on a price of $25,000 per acre, for a total sale of $2,084,500. The sale is still subject to approval by the ISU Foundation, which owns the remainder of the 122.75 acres, and the Executive Council of Iowa.

* Approval of the program and schematic design of the Master Plan for the Union Drive Neighborhood. The approval would set that phase into effect as soon as 2001. The project will include the demolition and the construction of three suite buildings as well as a community center.

* Approval of the Computation Center’s name change to the Center for Academic Information Technology.