Iowa State President Martin Jischke will request approval for several name changes at the state Board of Regents meeting on Wednesday and Thursday, including the much-debated renaming of the football stadium in honor of Jack Trice.

The regents will convene in Iowa City this week. They will consider a new name for the stadium 20 years after the board approved the stadium’s present name, “Cyclone Stadium/Jack Trice Field.”

Trice was ISU’s first African-American athlete and the only Cyclone who died as a result of injuries sustained during competition. He died in 1923.

Patricia Swan, vice provost for research and graduate college, chaired the advisory committee that recommended a name change to Jischke. Jischke announced his recommendation Feb. 3.

“We make this recommendation because we have been persuaded that the story of this young man, who set high ideals for himself and did his best to live up to those ideals, has been and continues to be an inspiration to our students, the university community in general, and to the people across the country who learn of it,” Swan said.

“We believe that renaming the stadium for him will afford more opportunities to tell his story and for others to be inspired by it.”

A public forum, held on Nov. 15, showed overwhelming support here for the recommendation, according to university officials. Eighty-five percent of ISU student-athletes surveyed were in support of the proposal.

ISU will also request approval for the naming of the Physical Education Building to the Barbara E. Forker Building. Forker, who retired in 1986, was the former head of the Department of Physical Education.

Forker was appointed by President Gerald Ford to the Blue Ribbon Commission where she examined the nation’s participation in the Olympic movement. She was later appointed to the U.S. Olympic Committee.

Regents will also consider renaming the main drive off of South 16th Street leading to the College of Veterinary Medicine as Christensen Drive.

The request was made to honor George C. Christensen, former 1960s Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine. In 1965, he was selected as vice president for student affairs. Christensen held that position for 22 years.

He was involved with the establishment of several university programs, including the Affirmative Action Program, Comparable Worth Program, Cooperative Engineering Program and the University Committee on Women.

He initiated the combining of Physical Education for Women and Physical Education for Men into a single Physical Education Department in the College of Education.

In addition, the Instructional Resources Center may also have a new name after this week. Officials want to rename it the Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching.

Requests will also be made for an expansion in the mission statement.

The new mission will be to promote, support and facilitate technology that will enhance learning and teaching.

A new center for Family Policy will also be proposed. The Center will address current and future policy issues particularly focusing on infants, children, adolescents, adults, the elderly and their families and communities.

New course changes will be proposed as well, including changes in the College of Design, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and the College of Family and Consumer Sciences.