Trustees Appoint 3 Deans, Others

TRUSTEES APPOINT THREE DEANS, ACT ON OTHER PERSONNEL MATTERS

     COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees on
Friday (7/11) appointed deans of three colleges, a vice provost
for undergraduate studies, and an interim vice provost for
minority affairs; named three professors to endowed positions;
and made numerous other appointments.

Ashley named dean of the College of Engineering

     Trustees named David B. Ashley, an internationally
distinguished professor of engineering, as dean of the College of
Engineering and to hold the John C. Geupel Chair in Civil
Engineering, effective Oct. 1, 1997.

     Ashley has been the Taisei Professor and chair of the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the
University of California at Berkeley since 1993. It is considered
the premier department in this field.  He was selected following
a national search for a successor to Jose Cruz, dean since 1992,
who has elected to return to the faculty.

     Ashley earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a second master's
degree and his doctoral degree from Stanford University.  His
work has attracted international recognition with respect to the
development and implementation of risk analysis techniques
appropriate for project management and construction engineering
decisions.  He has worked to determine factors leading to
construction success, predictive models of project performance,
and has contributed in important ways to developing and testing
of risk management responses to potential sources of cost
overruns.

Koroscik named dean of the College of the Arts

     The board named Judith Smith Koroscik of UPPER ARLINGTON as
dean of the College of the Arts effective Aug. 1.  Koroscik will
succeed Donald Harris, who is retiring from his administrative
duties and returning to the faculty.

     Koroscik has served as associate dean of the College of the
Arts since 1990.  She joined Ohio State in 1981 and has served in
several administrative roles, including as acting administrative
head of the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design and
as acting chair of the Department of Art Education.  She also has
overseen technology initiatives for research and teaching in the
college.

     She recently completed the Management Development Program
for academic administrators at Harvard University.  She formerly
was a senior research fellow in the Office of Educational
Research and Improvement of the U. S. Department of Education.

     Koroscik earned her bachelor's degree from the University of
Wisconsin-Parkside, and both her master's and doctoral degrees
from Arizona State University.  She is the recipient of many
awards, including Ohio State's Arts and Sciences Student Council
Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching.

Gold named dean of College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

     Trustees named Robert Gold of DELAWARE as dean of the
College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences retroactive to July
1.  Gold has served as the acting dean of the college since July
1996, when a national search was initiated to find a replacement
for former Dean James Garland, who left Ohio State to become
president of Miami University.

     Gold joined Ohio State's Department of Mathematics faculty
in 1968.  He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from
Swarthmore College and a doctorate in mathematics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  His research field is
algebraic number theory.

     Gold has also served as vice chair of Ohio State's
Department of Mathematics for two years and as associate dean of
the College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences for five years. 
Prior to joining Ohio State's faculty, Gold was a mathematician
     at the National Aeronautical and Space Agency (NASA).

Garland named vice provost for undergraduate studies

     Martha McMackin Garland, interim undergraduate dean of the 
Colleges of Arts and Sciences and associate dean of the College
of Humanities, was appointed vice provost for undergraduate
studies effective Oct. 1.  She succeeds Robert Arnold, who is
returning to the faculty as a professor of art education.

     As vice provost, she will oversee all aspects of
undergraduate education, from students