The Trustees will convene this weekend for their annual August retreat at the College's Minary Conference Center on Squam Lake in Holderness, N.H.
Chairman of the Board of Trustees Bill King '63 said the retreat is a "time for the Board to get away and reflect on issues that are of current and long-term importance to the College."
Trustees, their spouses and some chosen administrators are invited to the retreat, which King characterized as a "thinking and planning kind of weekend."
While King said the Social and Residential Life Initiative will be among the many current College-related issues discussed at the retreat, he said no decisions will be made about it.
Instead, he said the nature of the discussion will be only to update the Board on recent events. The Board will discuss the Task Force's findings, the work of the steering committee and the feedback of community members who "testified before the committee," King said.
"In absolutely no way is it an attempt to reach any decision at all [about the Initiative]," King said. "The process is still ongoing and it is the Board's absolute opinion that the process will go forward."
While The Dartmouth recently reported about controversy regarding the secrecy policy of the steering committee, which is officially known as the Committee on the Student Life Initiative, King said he did not think there would be any discussion about it at the retreat.
"I am not aware that there is any controversy about [the secrecy]," King said. "Nothing has been reported to me that makes me believe that there is any significant controversy there that we need to focus on."
King said he does not expect the discussions at the retreat to alter the Initiative's timetable.
"There is nothing that I am aware of that would alter the general time table that we talked about," King said.
In November, the Board plans to announce its decision about the future of social and residential life at the College.
