Trustees Act on Personnel Matters

TRUSTEES APPOINT PROFESSORS, BOARD MEMBERS

COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees 
on Friday (10/6) appointed an assistant vice president and 
assistant provost, and faculty members to endowed chairs in 
business and medicine.  Trustees named members to the Arthur 
G. James Cancer Hospital and Research Institute Board, The 
Ohio State University-Marion Board of Trustees and the 
Engineering Experiment Station Advisory Council, and 
conducted other business.

Kunz to head merged planning and research office

Trustees appointed Eric R. Kunz of UPPER ARLINGTON to 
the newly created positions of assistant vice president for 
resource planning and assistant provost for institutional 
analysis.

"Eric Kunz has done an exceptional job in leading 
University Budget and Space Planning and is taking on 
expanded responsibilities within the offices of Finance and 
Academic Affairs," said Ed Ray, senior vice provost for 
academic affairs.

Ray said the research arms of Academic Affairs and 
Finance will be merged to give Ohio State a stronger 
institutional research and analysis capability and to 
provide information to faculty, staff, and students in a 
more usable way.

"It also allows us to pose and provide answers to 
questions about how we operate, how effective we are in our 
academic enterprise, and how we measure improvement in our 
services to students," Ray said.

The merged office, to be called University Resource 
Planning and Institutional Analysis, exemplifies the close 
working relationship between the staffs of the provost, 
Richard Sisson, and vice president for finance, William J. 
Shkurti.  In recent years, Sisson, Ray, Shkurti and Kunz 
have worked to tie academic planning and budgeting together.

Ray said the merger will eliminate ambiguities about 
which issues should be dealt with by planners in Finance or 
in Academic Affairs.

"Almost all the issues we've had to deal with regarding 
enrollment, the summer incentive program, the subsidy 
formula, or budget recommendations from year to year, have 
involved people from both the finance and academic planning 
units," he said.  "We felt it made sense to bring those 
units together to meet the university's analysis needs."

Berry Named to Ross Chair In Management

The board named William L. Berry of DUBLIN, professor 
of management sciences, to the Richard M. Ross Chair in 
Management in the Fisher College of Business.  His term runs 
through September 2000.

Berry is the director of the Center for Excellence in 
Manufacturing Management at Ohio State.  Before coming to 
Columbus, he was the Belk Distinguished Professor of 
Operations Management and chair of the Operations 
Management/Quantitative Methods Area at the Kenan/Flagler 
School of Business at the University of North Carolina.

Berry received his Bachelor of Science degree from 
Purdue University, his Master of Science degree from the 
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and a Doctor of Business 
Administration degree from Harvard Business School.

The Ross Chair was established last month with a gift 
from Elizabeth Ross in memory of her husband Richard, a 1938 
Ohio State graduate who was president of Ross Laboratories.  
The chair supports a faculty position in management 
education focusing on operations, product development and 
manufacturing.

Caniano named to Powelson medicine professorship

Trustees named Donna A. Caniano of WESTERVILLE, 
associate professor of surgery and pediatrics, to the Harry 
C. and Mary Elizabeth Powelson Professorship in Medicine.

Caniano is the director of the first-year Medical 
Humanities and Behavioral Sciences course in the College of 
Medicine and secretary-treasurer of the medical staff at 
Children's Hospital.  She received her Bachelor of Arts 
degree from Vassar College and her medical degree from 
Albany Medical College.

The Powelson Professorship was established in 1976 with 
a bequest from alumnus Harry C. Powelson to support a 
faculty position in the College of Medicine to provide 
tutorial services for worthy and needy medical students.

Leaders named for Human Nutrition, Renaissance Studies

The board appointed Tammy M. Bray as chairperson of the 
Department of Human Nutrition and Food Management 
retroactive to Sept. 1 and continuing through June 1999.  
Bray comes to Ohio State from the University of Guelph, in 
Guelph, Ontario, where she was a professor of biological 
sciences.  She received her Bachelor of Science degree from 
Fu-Jen University in Thai Pei, Taiwan, and her Master of 
Science and doctoral degrees from Washington State 
University.

Trustees appointed Nicholas G. Howe of COLUMBUS (43202) 
as director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance 
Studies, retroactive to Oct. 1, and continuing through 
September 1999.  A faculty member since 1991, Howe received 
his Bachelor of Arts degree from York University in Toronto, 
Ontario, and his doctorate from Yale University.

In other personnel actions, trustees:

-- Appointed Peter V. Paul of WESTERVILLE as acting 
director of the Department of Educational Services and 
Research, retroactive to Oct. 1 and continuing through 
September 1996.

-- Reappointed Jack A. Boulant of WORTHINGTON, 
professor of physiology, to the Fred A. Hitchcock 
Professorship in Environmental Physiology through June 1999.  
The Hitchcock Professorship was established in 1975 by 
Hitchcock to support a faculty position in environmental 
physiology.

-- Waived a rule requiring administrators to step down 
at age 65 to permit Donald Harris to continue as dean of the 
College of the Arts.  Harris was reappointed to a one-year 
term beginning July 1, 1996.

-- Granted the title of professor emeritus to Clyde W. 
Franklin of COLUMBUS (43235), Department of Sociology, 
retroactive to July 1.

-- Named Joseph C. Loon of GAHANNA, Department of 
Geodetic Science and Surveying, as assistant professor 
emeritus, retroactive to Oct. 1.

Board members appointed

James Cancer Hospital and Research Institute

The Board of Trustees appointed seven people to The 
Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Research Institute Board 
for one-year terms retroactive to May 1.  From their own 
ranks, trustees appointed Zuheir Sofia and reappointed Alex 
Shumate to the James board.  Trustees also appointed Greta 
Russell, university controller, and reappointed Henry G. 
Cramblett, senior physician and faculty member; Edward F. 
Hayes, vice president for research.  Richard J. Solove and 
Ellen Hardymon were reappointed as representatives of the 
general community.

Engineering Experiment Station

The university board appointed six faculty members to 
the Engineering Experiment Station Advisory Council.  Jose 
B. Cruz, dean of the College of Engineering, is director of 
the experiment station and serves as the seventh member of 
the advisory council.  The group is responsible for 
selecting topics for investigation, apportioning available 
funds, and disseminating the results of the research to 
citizens of the state.

The council members and their terms are:

-- William A. Baeslack III, professor of industrial, 
welding and systems engineering and associate dean for 
research and college development, through September 1998.
-- Walter D. Burnside, professor of electrical 
engineering and director of the ElectroScience Laboratory, 
through September 1998.
-- Liang-Shih Fan, professor and chairperson of the 
Department of Chemical Engineering, through September 1997.
-- Hamish L. Fraser, Ohio Eminent Scholar and professor 
of materials science and engineering, through September 
1997.
-- Donald R. Houser, professor of mechanical 
engineering and director of the Center of Automotive 
Research, through September 1996.
-- Don W. Miller, professor of mechanical engineering 
and chairperson of the nuclear engineering graduate program, 
through May 1996.

The Ohio State University-Marion

Trustees appointed David F. Bacon to The Ohio State 
University-Marion Board of Trustees to fill the unexpired 
term of James McGlamery, who resigned.

Bacon, an attorney, is a member of the Upper Sandusky 
Exempted Village Board of Education and choir director and 
Sunday School superintendent of First Presbyterian Church.  
His term on the Marion board runs through June 1996.

McGlamery, was an original member of the Marion board 
that was created last year.  He recently resigned as 
superintendent of schools at Upper Sandusky and took a 
position out of the area.

Resolutions in memoriam

The board adopted resolutions in memoriam for:

-- Barbee William Durham, supervisor emeritus in the 
Office of Business and Administration, who died Aug. 12.

-- Daniel M. Galbreath, former chairman and member of 
the Board of Trustees, who died Sept. 8.

-- Joseph J. Kruzel, associate professor in the 
Department of Political Science and the Mershon Center, who 
died Aug. 19.

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         (614) 688-3682.


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