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November
1993
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18:00 PM
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Actions of Board of Trustees
ACTIONS AT THE NOVEMBER MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
COLUMBUS -- The following pages summarize the major items of
business at the regular meeting of The Ohio State University
Board of Trustees held Friday (11-5) at the Fawcett Center for
Tomorrow.
Enrollment Meets Predictions
Trustees were told that the university's autumn quarter
enrollment is very close to what had been projected last summer
when the university's annual budget was adopted. William J.
Shkurti, vice president for finance, reported, "This is good news
for budget purposes because the budget was balanced on these
projections. Enrollment should generate tuition and subsidy
income levels very close to budgeted levels." He added that
"barring catastrophic surprises," the 1993-94 budget will remain
balanced through the end of the fiscal year.
As anticipated, enrollment fell by about 3 percent -- from a
total of 58,585 last autumn to a total of 56,817 this autumn.
President E. Gordon Gee noted that the enrollment is "directly
on target" with the university's plan to downsize somewhat
through managed enrollment and selective admissions. He also
said the balance between undergraduate and graduate students is
"very much on target," and he pointed out that the decreased
enrollments and increased standards have not had a detrimental
effect on minority enrollment, as some had predicted.
Minority enrollment is at an all-time high, reported
Associate Provost Robert Arnold. The total number of minority
students is 6,345, an 8.2 percent increase over last year. At
the Columbus campus, minority enrollment totals 6,034, a 7.7
percent increase. Minorities now represent 11.9 percent of the
student population on the Columbus campus. All categories of
minority students increased: African Americans from 3,209 to
3,439 (7.2%), Asian Americans from 1,739 to 1,895 (9.0%),
Hispanics from 807 to 871 (7.9%), and American Indians from 108
to 140 (29.6%).
The decline was felt on all Ohio State campuses. The
Columbus campus has 50,623 students this year, compared to 52,183
in 1992. At the regional campuses, the 1993 and 1992 figures,
respectively, are: Lima, 1,348 and 1,410; Mansfield, 1,412 and
1,465; Marion, 1,046 and 1,066; and Newark, 1,675 and 1,732. The
Agricultural Technical Institute at Wooster had a slight decline
from 729 last year to 713 this year.
Graduate students are also at a record high, with 11,307
students pursuing graduate studies, a 2.5 percent increase over
last year's total of 11,035. The number of students in the
professional colleges (Dentistry, Law, Medicine, Optometry,
Pharmacy and Veterinary Medicine) remained stable, with 2,648
students this fall compared to 2,639 last year. The overall
decrease is attributable to a fall of 4.6 percent in the number
of undergraduates -- from 44,911 last year to 42,862 this year.
Additional information about undergraduate retention,
characteristics of the incoming freshman class and comparisons
with other universities will be presented at a future meeting of
the Trustees.
Task Force Proposed to Consider Faculty Rewards
Trustees held a discussion about faculty rewards during the
Educational Affairs Committee meeting preceding the board
meeting. According to Nancy M. Rudd, associate provost, the
Office of Academic Affairs is proposing the establishment of a
task force on faculty rewards. The task force would review the
current system and make recommendations regarding general
criteria for appointment, tenure, promotion, and other rewards
that are applicable across disciplines.
Rudd cited issues such as a lack of consistency between
current procedures and faculty rules, an apparent lack of
involvement by many faculty in tenure and promotion matters in
many departments, inadequate documentation of teaching in many
departments, and inconsistency between the Ohio public records
law and Ohio State's policy on confidentiality of letters of
evaluation.
She noted that she envisions the task force reviewing the
faculty rules and the Office of Academic Affairs procedural
guidelines for tenure and promotion decisions; laws, such as the
Ohio Open Records Act; and the definition of scholarly activity.
In addition, the task force would consider the appropriate
general criteria for the awarding of tenure and for promotion and
consider what mixture of uniformity of criteria and local
variation is optimal to assure that Ohio State as a whole, as
well as individual disciplines, can achieve the highest possible
quality. Related issues beyond the scope of the committee's
charge would be identified for further study.
Department Chairperson and Hospitals Board Members Appointed
The board reappointed Randall E. Harris of WORTHINGTON as
chairperson of the Department of Preventive Medicine for a four-
year term through June 1994.
Trustees also appointed Peter Frenzer, president of
Nationwide Life Insurance Co., to the University Hospitals Board
for a three year term, retroactive to Nov. 1.
Seven people, including two trustees, two administrators, a
faculty member and two area residents will comprise the first
board of the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Research
Institute. Trustees created the board at their September
meeting.
Appointed from Ohio State were trustees John W. Kessler and
Alex Shumate; Harry G. Cramblett, senior physician and faculty
member; Edward F. Hayes, vice president for research; and William
J. Shkurti, vice president for finance.
The board also appointed to the board Richard J. Solove, of
Westerville and Ellen Hardymon of Delaware.
Solove is an area real estate developer who is president of
the Ohio Cancer Foundation. He has endowed the Richard J. Solove
Chair in Cancer Medical Therapeutics Research Fund at Ohio State.
Solove served on the founding board of the Shepherd Hill Hospital
in Newark, an alcohol and drug abuse center. He has a degree in
pharmacy from Ohio State.
Hardymon is general managing partner of January Partnership
Ltd., a private investment portfolio firm, and chairman of
Midwest Savings Bank in DeGraff. She is a director and member of
the executive committee of the Franklin County unit of the
American Cancer Society. Hardymon helped establish the Babe
Zaharias Women's Cancer Center at the James Hospital. Earlier
this year, she chaired the first Race for the Cure, a fund-
raising event for breast cancer education and screening.
Hardymon attended Ohio State.
In addition, trustees appointed or reappointed 20 doctors to
the medical staff of the cancer hospital.
Accounting and Humanities Get Endowed Professorships
The Board of Trustees established The Deloitte & Touche
Accounting Professorship with a gift of $515,012 and the Kenneth
E. Naylor Professorship in the College of Humanities with a gift
of $145,977.97, as well as seven new named funds.
A fund for the Deloitte & Touche professorship was
established in 1987 with gifts from the partners of Deloitte
Haskins & Sells and the Deloitte Haskins & Sells Foundation. The
name was changed in 1991. The fund has now reached the level of
endowment needed to support a professorship.
The Naylor professorship will be held by a teacher,
researcher and scholar in South Slavic studies or South Slavic
history. The position is named in memory of Kenneth E. Naylor
who was a professor of Slavic and East European Languages and
Literatures.
Trustees established seven named endowment funds:
~ The Steve Goldberg Memorial Fund for student assistance in
the College of Dentistry, $25,000.
~ The John E. King Scholarship Fund in Optometry, $17,790.
~ The Robert M. Mayer Graduate Research Award in Chemistry,
$15,329.
~ The David R. and Martha T. Patterson Permanent Endowment
Fund in the College of Optometry, scholarships, $15,000.
~ The Robert Momsen Scholarship Fund of the Lucas County
Alumni Club, to benefit students from Lucas County, $15,000.
~ The C. Jane Bull Scholarship Fund in the College of
Business, $6,000.
~ The St. Archangel Michael Serbian Orthodox Church of
Akron, Ohio, Endowment Fund, $5,000 for graduate student support
in the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies.
Board Approves Research Agreements
Trustees accepted 216 research agreements totaling
$19,303,466.95. Those singled out for mention included:
~ $258,248 from the U.S. Department of the Navy, Office of
Naval Research, to study the effects of natural changes in and
human activity on the Arctic marine ecosystem, measure
radioactivity on the sea-floor and collect sediment, water and
biological samples. The samples will be analyzed to provide data
on the pattern of radionuclide concentration on the sea-floor.
That will permit assessment of the hazards and create a basis for
more international environmental studies in the Russian Arctic.
S.L. Forman of the Byrd Polar Research Center is the principal
investigator.
~ $210,773 from the National Institutes of Health to
delineate a syndrome, associated with the human immunodeficiency
virus, that resembles emphysema and to carefully study its
functional and morphological characteristics. J.E. Gadek, P.T.
Diaz, and T.L. Clanton of the Department of Internal Medicine are
conducting the research.
~ $101,788 from the Edison Materials Technology Center to
develop a gas sensor/monitor for measuring carbon monoxide and
hydrogen in heat-treating furnaces and in commercial and
industrial environments. Semiconductor materials will be used
with the goal of optimizing solid state sensor manufacturing
technology. S.A. Akbar of the Department of Materials Science
and Engineering will conduct the research.
~ $63,512 from the Ohio Board of Regents to prepare teachers
in the Columbus public schools to train other middle school
teachers to teach hands-on science in the schools through the
Science is Fun program. Janet Z. Tarino, associate professor of
chemistry at the Mansfield campus, is leading the project.
Doctoral Program in Natural Resources Is Established
Trustees established a Doctor of Philosophy degree program
in natural resources, the first such program in the state,
effective Autumn Quarter 1994.
The program will prepare students in understanding and
applying natural and social sciences for real-world problem
solving.
New Sexual Harassment Policy Adopted
Trustees approved a new sexual harassment policy for the
university, affecting students, faculty, staff, customers,
vendors and contractors. The 10-page policy defines sexual
harassment and provides clearly defined procedures for handling
complaints. It addresses issues of hostile environments and
consensual relationships, which were not covered in the previous
policy, last amended in 1983.
Sexual harassment is defined as "any unwelcome sexual
advance, request for sexual favor, reference to gender or sexual
orientation, or other physical or verbal conduct of a sexual
nature when: (1) Submission to or rejection of such conduct is
used either explicitly or implicitly as a basis for any decision
affecting terms or conditions of an individual's employment,
participation in any program or activity, or status in an
academic course, or (2) Such conduct has the effect of
unreasonably interfering with an individual's work performance or
educational experience, or creates an intimidating, hostile or
offensive environment for working, learning, or living on campus,
and has no legitimate relationship to the subject matter of a
course."
Complaints may be resolved by informal or formal procedures,
which are outlined in detail in the policy. If a violation is
found to have taken place, sanctions ranging from a verbal
reprimand to dismissal from the university may be imposed.
Other Business
In other business, the board:
~ Ordered the conferring of degrees and certificates on Dec.
10 to those persons who have completed the requirements for them.
~ Approved 63 waivers of competitive bidding requirements
totaling $13,616,328 for the period of July through September.
Fifty-three waivers were for sole-source suppliers, one for
emergency purposes, and nine for sufficient economic reason.
~ Authorized selection of architects and engineers for two
projects: to conduct a building audit and design renovations for
renovating Neil Hall on Neil Avenue and to design 2,000 parking
spaces on West Campus and seek construction bids for 1,000 with
the other 1,000 as an alternate bid.
~ Accepted the report of the Coopers & Lybrand audit for
1992-93, including university financial statements, internal
control structure, recommendations to management, and management
responses.
~ Approved a variety of non-mandatory transfers of money
from current funds totaling $43,039,470.36.
~ Designated 34 employing units for college, presidential
and vice presidential areas for the purpose of complying with
state law which requires a state employing unit to establish an
early retirement incentive plan for its employees in the event
that a designated number of layoffs occur within that unit. The
designations were made so that if the need for such a plan
arises, the university can respond to the needs of individual
colleges and departments. Linda Tom, vice president for human
resources, noted that the units are for the sole purpose of
complying with the law and aren't applicable to any other
employment or fiscal issue.
~ Approved resolutions in memoriam for James Dean Harless,
associate professor in the School of Journalism, who died Sept.
3; Arden K. Hegtvedt, assistant professor in the College of
Dentistry, who died Sept. 15; Norman F. Phelps, professor in the
School of Music, who died Feb. 16; Susan L. Porter, professor in
the School of Music, who died Oct. 3, Carroll L. Shartle,
professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology; Charles C.
Vedder, associate professor emeritus in the School of Music; and
Charles Ray Williams, professor in the College of Education, who
died Sept. 23.
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