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September
1994
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Back to School, Part I
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following pages outline some of the new
programs, buildings, services and events for the coming year.
Contact persons are listed at the end of each item. You may also
call Ruth Gerstner, 292-8424, Tom Spring, 292-8309, or Steve
Sterrett, 292-8472, in the Office of University Communications
for further information.
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PREPARES FOR 1994-95 ACADEMIC YEAR
COLUMBUS -- Autumn quarter classes at The Ohio State
University begin at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 21, marking the
beginning of a new academic year. Although official figures will
not be available for several weeks, university officials are
anticipating about 49,760 students will be enrolled at the
Columbus campus this fall, a slight decrease over last year's
50,623 total. Of these students, about 5,850 will be new, first-
quarter freshmen.
Another 6,000 students are expected at the four extended
campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion and Newark, and at the
Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster for a total
university enrollment of about 55,000.
About 100 of the entering freshmen at Columbus have the
distinction of being the first members of the university's Young
Scholars Program to become Ohio State students. The Young
Scholars program inducted its first members in 1988 as sixth
graders. That class graduated from high school last spring and
is now entering college, fulfilling the first part of the
program's mission to increase the number of young people from
low-income families in underrepresented minority groups who
attend college and succeed in their university studies. (See
separate news release on Young Scholars enclosed with this
package.)
The freshman class will also include about 450 University
Scholars, that is students who graduated in the top 3 percent of
their high school classes. This is an increase over last year,
when 418 University Scholars enrolled.
IN THE COLLEGES
The College of the Arts will launch the Emerging
Technologies Studio, which will enhance the use of advanced
technologies for instructional research and teaching throughout
the college. Interactive technologies, CD-ROM, and various
multi-media approaches will be employed in the studio located in
Sullivant Hall. The college's Advanced Computing Center for the
Arts and Design (ACCAD) was chosen as one of 20 university
programs worldwide to participate in the New Media Centers
Consortium offered through a partnership among Apple Computer,
Sony Electronic, Kodak, Prentice-Hall, and other industry
leaders. Wayne Carlson, director of ACCAD, 292-3416.
Also in the College of the Arts: the Department of Dance has
received a $50,000 grant to preserve and document selected works
by alumna Lynn Dally and faculty member Victoria Uris though
multimedia dance documentation, including use of interactive
technology; the School of Music is bringing new music
technologies, such as composing on computer, into the classroom;
the Department of Art has recently completed a major renovation
in the foundry/metals/glass building; the college's partnership
with the Martin Luther King Jr. Center received an NEA grant to
develop a resource center for instructional materials that
illuminate the contributions of people of color to the arts.
Associate Dean Karen Bell, 292-2298.
The School of Journalism is welcoming James Neff as the new
director of the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Reporting.
Neff worked for the Cleveland Plain Dealer for nine years as an
investigative reporter and columnist. He is the author of Mobbed
Up: Jackie Presser's High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia
and the FBI, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His
upcoming book, Thin Ice, describes the police investigation of a
serial rapist. Neff will work on investigative reports with
eight Kiplinger Fellows each year and teach reporting classes.
Lee Becker, interim director, School of Journalism, 292-6291.
The College of Law, the only unit on campus to operate on
semesters rather than quarters, has been in session since Aug.
22, and is beginning its second year in newly renovated and
expanded quarters. As a consequence of reorienting the building
to face the campus rather than High Street, the college's address
has changed and is now 55 W. 12th Ave.
Since last spring, law students have been able to volunteer
for pro-bono work in a new program jointly sponsored by the
college's alumni council, the Legal Aid Society of Columbus, and
the Columbus Bar Association's "Lawyers for Justice" program.
The students gain hands-on legal training by working with
attorneys or firms to provide free legal services to citizens who
cannot afford to hire an attorney.
The college's clinical programs will offer an additional
civil law clinic this spring to provide experience in civil
litigation. The Street Law Program has been reinstated this
year. This program, under the director of Emeritus Associate
Dean Jack Henderson, takes law students into the Columbus City
Schools to talk to students about basic legal rights. Mary Ellen
Jenkins, assistant to the dean, 292-5354.
The College of Nursing is expanding, remodeling and re-
equipping its Computing Resource Center. The college's Center
for Nursing Research has also grown and now includes a renovated
biochemical laboratory for faculty research into such topics as
smoking cessation and pain management.
The incoming class of 155 students will be the first to go
through a revised curriculum that includes a required clinical
experience in the summer after their first year. The clinical
coursework will include learning to interview patients, assess
health needs, give injections, etc. Further, the college has
begun to offer programs of study for graduate and post-master's
students who wish to prepare to become nurse practitioners in the
areas of adult health and illness or parent-child nursing.
Dean Carole Anderson was recently selected president-elect
of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and will
assume the presidency in 1996 for a two-year term. Sharon Roach,
dean's office, 292-0596.
The College of Engineering will open the Dreese Laboratory
addition at the beginning of autumn quarter and hold a formal
ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. 28. The addition, with 115,000
square feet, has facilities to develop new approaches to teaching
via interactive computer work stations, as well as an advanced
in-building computer communication system. It also will house
faculty in computer and information science and electrical
engineering.
The college will hold its annual Career Day for future
engineers and architects on Nov. 12 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Faculty and administrators will be available to answer questions,
and there will be tours, a panel discussion with current students
and other activities.
The college is entering the second year of its Gateway
Program, funded by the National Science Foundation, which is an
innovative integration of math and science with the fundamentals
of engineering and design. Ohio State is one of 10 member
institutions of the Gateway Coalition, and is currently piloting
the program with 30 freshmen each year. A new math course and a
new physics course, both established under Gateway, will be
available for the first time this year to all freshmen planning
to enter the college's regular curriculum.
A new clean room for electronic materials research will open
this quarter. It will house equipment obtained through a
combined purchase/donation from United Technologies Research
Center worth over $1.5 million and is the only facility among
Ohio universities for electronic materials research.
Vadim I. Utkin, formerly of the Institute of Control
Sciences in Moscow, winner of the 1972 Lenin Prize and a pioneer
of the sliding mode control technique, will join the college as
the Ford Professor of Electro-Mechanical Systems Engineering.
A technical communication center will be opened, with both
teaching assistants and computer-aided instructional software
available to help students with technical writing problems.
Associate Dean David Dickinson, 292-8357.
The College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental
Sciences (formerly the College of Agriculture) has received one
of 12 grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to assist in
educating food systems professionals. The initial grant of
$133,000 is to be used for an 18-month exploration and
identification of future needs in food systems education. Out of
this study is to come a modern land grant university philosophy
and a plan of action to develop a new generation of academic
leaders. Those proposed projects producing truly innovative
visions for the future will be eligible for long-term funding
from the Kellogg Foundation for implementation. Associate Dean
L.H. Newcomb, 292-6891.
The Agricultural Technical Institute, located in Wooster,
next fall will begin offering a two-year Associate of Science
degree which can be used to begin coursework toward a bachelor's
degree. ATI students who pursue this degree option can meet a
portion of the requirements for a bachelor's degree from Ohio
State's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental
Sciences, or apply the coursework toward other bachelor's degrees
at Ohio State or other colleges and universities. Liana Huff,
ATI, 292-7115 or (216) 262-7634.
The College of Biological Sciences is looking forward to
moving into the Vernal Riffe Jr. Building this January. This
nine-story structure connects the Biological Sciences Building
and Parks Hall, the home of the College of Pharmacy, and
facilitates interactive efforts between the colleges. The
building has been specifically designed to accommodate the
specialized equipment required for modern biological and
pharmaceutical research. It also houses the combined Biological
Sciences/Pharmacy Library, which opened Sept. 12.
The Department of Zoology has completely revamped its
undergraduate core curriculum, requiring five core courses for
zoology majors instead of the former two. For the first time in
10 years, the Department of Biochemistry will offer a graduate
level course in enzymology for students in any of the college's
departments. Sandi Rutkowski, associate editor, 292-4759.
The College of Optometry is currently putting into place a
new 14-quarter curriculum to further enhance its classroom and
patient care instruction. First-year students are offered the
opportunity to participate in the "Adopt A Freshman" program in
which they are paired with an optometrist in private practice to
get some first-hand experience early in their professional
education. Thanks to more than $2 million in private donations
over the past two years, the college has had major renovations in
its equipment and facilities. Dean Richard Hill, 292-3246.
Students in the College of Human Ecology will see changes in
Campbell Hall this fall, with construction under way on the
Geraldine Schottenstein Wing, which will house the Historic
Costume and Textiles Collection. The former courtyard is being
enclosed to provide additional classrooms and laboratories, a
two-story gallery and faculty and administrative offices.
A new option for students pursuing an undergraduate major in
textiles and clothing is Product Development and Evaluation.
This integrates and strengthens knowledge of both textiles and
apparel, two previously separate areas in industry that are
increasingly being brought together. The option incorporates
study of quality assurance and computer-aided design.
The college has been involved in a year-long celebration of
the United Nations International Year of the Family. Fall
quarter activities include offering two courses on international
families; a panel discussion on Oct. 12 on eating patterns in
Taiwan, Korea, India and the Philippines; and a variety of
seminar presentations throughout the fall. To conclude, the
college will celebrate holidays around the world. Dean Jerelyn
Schultz, 292-8119.
The College of Social Work has selected its second class of
Master of Social Work students at the Mansfield campus.
Approximately 50 students will begin the program this autumn.
It allows them to earn a M.S.W. degree at Mansfield in three
years through part-time study. Rodger Smith, assistant director,
OSU-Mansfield, (419) 755-4011.
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