Trustees slated to act on distance learning initiative, capital plan CHRONICLE STAFF July 28, 2000 The Board of Trustees meets Wednesday, Aug. 2, on the Worcester campus. Its agenda includes votes on issues related to distance learning, the capital plan, child care policy and the naming of a new building for the Isenberg School of Management, a $12 million project scheduled to be under construction by the end of the year. The 11 a.m. meeting will be preceded by the board's Committee of the Whole meeting at 9:15, where board members will hear reports on professional and distance learning and an update on the University's Kuwait initiative and a proposed international environmental congress from Paul Kostecki, research associate professor of Environmental Health Sciences. During a trip to Kuwait, Lebanon and Egypt in late April, board chair Robert Karam, President William Bulger, Chancellor David Scott, Kathleen Scott, Barbara Burn, associate provost for International Programs, and Kostecki met with Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences officials to discuss, among other things, a jointly organized international meeting on petroleum contaminated soils, sediments and water, to take place in September 2001. The University group also explored opportunities for collaboration with Kuwait University. Both meetings are scheduled for the Faculty Conference Room at the Medical School, 55 Lake Ave. North.