The first Board of Regents meeting at Iowa State this semester will take place Wednesday and Thursday with a $65 million Bergstrom Football Complex expansion on the agenda. 

The meeting takes place at the Alumni Center starting at 10 a.m. Wednesday and 9:45 a.m. Thursday. The agenda can be found on the Board of Regents website.

The largest ticket item for Iowa State on Wednesday is the possible expansion to the football complex. 

Iowa State University and the Iowa State Athletics Department are looking to get approval by the Iowa Board of Regents to start a $65-80 million project to expand the Bergstrom Football Complex. 

The university believes there needs to be an upgrade in training, performance, nutrition and academic support for the student athletes, according to the agenda in Wednesday’s Board of Regents meeting. This project is broken up into segments pertaining to the north side of Jack Trice Stadium.  

The main part is focused on the expansion of the Bergstrom Football Complex. With the contract extension for football head coach Matt Campbell back in December, Campbell said in his press conference that he sees the football program growing both in players and the facilities.  

This project would allow an academic center and a sport nutrition center to be built on the west side of the Bergstrom Indoor Training Facility. It would provide student athletes the opportunity to have tutoring rooms and computer labs. It would also allow for a new dining and student nutrition center. 

Along with the Bergstrom Complex, the Olsen Building, which is connected to the Jacobsen Building, would be demolished and everything in there would be put into the expansion on the Bergstrom Complex. There would be locker rooms and strength and conditioning facilities specifically for women’s sports like soccer and softball who used the Olsen Building. 

Finally, the last part of this project would be focused on remodeling the north side of Jack Trice Stadium. There would be improvements made to the hillside seats and the marching band area as well as developing better mobility assistance areas like building more ramps and easier entries on the north side of the stadium. 

The $65-80 million estimate would be funded by Private Giving and Iowa State Athletics Department Operations funds.

Thursday’s agenda includes reports from institutional heads, including Iowa State President Wendy Wintersteen and a report from Iowa State’s Director of Residence Pete Englin.