Trustees Hear Summer Plan, Other Business

ACTIONS OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

     COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees on
Friday (12/2) heard a report on budgeting, named a park, and
conducted other business as follows:

Summer Program Expansion Would Benefit University, Community

     Although The Ohio State University is on target in its plans
to maintain an enrollment on the Columbus campus at about 50,000
students, university officials are looking to boost enrollment
during its least hectic quarter -- summer.
     According to Edward Ray, senior vice provost, Ohio State has
lost 10 percent in real resources for academic programs during
the past seven years.  New strategies are needed to raise
revenue.  One way under consideration is to give colleges
financial incentives to boost summer quarter enrollments.  Last
summer, enrollment on the Columbus campus was 19,760.
     "The basic idea, which we call incentive based budgeting,
sets base enrollment levels for all academic units for summer
quarter and provides for revenue sharing associated with
enrollment increases," Ray told the trustees.
     Ray said course offerings could range from traditional five-
and 10-week courses to new and innovative programs, including
continuing education-type programs and weeklong summer
institutes.
     After instructional expenses and overhead are paid, colleges
and departments would keep the majority of the net revenues
resulting from enrollments above base levels to put into their
respective academic programs.  The courses would be made
available to and benefit the central Ohio community, including
Ohio State alumni and students at other universities who are back
home in Columbus for the summer.
     Ray said Ohio State is seeking ways to make the university's
budget system more responsive to academic trends and needs.  In
addition, officials are looking at allowing control and
responsibility for budgets to be more closely assigned to the
units that generate the revenues and incur the costs associated
with the budgets.
Trustees Name Park After Former University Employees

     The board named the park south of 19th Avenue and east of
Caldwell Lab as the Neal and Faye Smith Park to recognize the
Smiths' support and service to the university.
     Neal Smith served on the faculty of the Department of
Electrical Engineering for nearly 40 years, working in the fields
of high voltage and power systems.  Faye Smith worked for 25
years as assistant to the secretary of the Board of Trustees.
     The park is on the site of the former Communications Lab
building in which Mr. Smith worked.

Treasurer to Recommend Financial Service Providers

     The board adopted a new procedure for awarding contracts to
banks and other financial service providers.  The changes were
made to avoid conflicts of interest on the part of board members.
      Under amendments to the Bylaws of the Board of Trustees and
Rules of the University Faculty, the board treasurer now has
exclusive responsibility for recommending to the board qualified
providers of financial services.
     Trustees will annually disclose to the treasurer any
financial or fiduciary interest the trustee has in a financial
service provider who may be qualified to do business with Ohio
State.
     The treasurer will notify trustees of proposed transactions
with a provider in which the trustee has an interest and the
trustee will abstain from deliberating and voting on the
contract.
     With respect to new contracts, the treasurer will request
proposals, and recommend the qualified provider offering the
lowest price and treating the university equal to or superior to
other customers in similar transactions.

Board Creates Ford Chair, Five Named Endowed Funds

     Trustees established The Ford Motor Company Chair in
Electromechanical Systems with $1,250,000 in gifts.  Annual
income from the endowed chair will be used to provide salary and
program support for a professor who will have joint appointment
in departments of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical
Engineering.
     Electromechanics is a blend of electrical and mechanical
engineering and is considered vital to improving the design,
operation and control of machinery and vehicles.
     The fund for the chair was established in 1990 with gifts
received through The Ohio State University Foundation from the
Ford Motor Company.

     The board established five named endowed funds as follows:
     -- The Gilbert Moody University Scholarship Fund to benefit
students in the Max M. Fisher College of Business, $25,000.
     -- The Henry H. Simms Fund to provide awards to graduate
students studying American history, College of Humanities,
$15,850.
     -- The Moira McKenzie Award for Graduate Student Study in
Children's Literacy Learning, College of Education, $15,652.
     -- The Mitsugi Satow-Rakuno Gakuen Scholastic Endowment Fund
to provide program support for joint research by scientists at
Rakuno Gakuen University in Ebetsu, Japan, and Ohio State's
College of Veterinary Medicine, $15,000.
     -- The Alan R. Oatey Innovation Fund in Business, $15,000.

Resolutions in Memoriam Approved

     Trustees adopted resolutions in memoriam for:
     -- Kaye R. Everett, professor emeritus in the School of
Natural Resources, who died Oct. 21.
     -- Hugh D. Hindman, athletic director emeritus in the
Department of Athletics, who died Oct. 12.
     -- William E. Jennings, professor emeritus, Department of
Educational Policy and Leadership, who died Oct. 1.
     -- Henry H. Simms, professor emeritus in the Department of
History, who died Sept. 27.
     -- Oram C. Woolpert, professor emeritus in the Department of
Microbiology and former executive director of the Research
Foundation, who died Oct. 21.

1994 Research Spending Totals Nearly $200 Million

     Expenditures for Ohio State's research work exceeded $197
million in fiscal 1994.  The work involved 4,806 projects
conducted by 2,964 full-time equivalent faculty, according to a
year-end report from the university's Research Foundation.
     The College of Medicine had the most projects, 870, and the
most expenditures, $36 million.  Second was the College of
Engineering, with 705 projects totaling $28 million.

     Trustees accepted a report of 172 research contracts and
grants, totaling more than $12 million, for October 1994.
Projects singled out for special mention were:
     -- Die casting research, to be performed by a consortium of
the Center for Die Casting at Ohio State, the North American Die
Casting Association, Case Western Reserve University, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, and U.S. die casting companies.  According
to the report, the potential economic impact of the center is
conservatively estimated to be at least $47 million per year
based on implementation of research and development results by
the industry.  Richard A. Miller of the Department of Industrial
and Systems Engineering is the Ohio State leader.  The U.S.
Department of Energy is providing $419,126.
     -- A program development grant on breast cancer, involving
Ohio State's Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Arthur G. James
Cancer Hospital and Research Institute.  Research projects center
around the interactions of small and large molecules with
critical bimolecular targets in breast cancer, according to the
report.  The National Cancer Institute is providing $400,000.
Project leaders are Robert W. Brueggemeier of the Comprehensive
Cancer Center, Steven M. D'Ambrosio of the Center for Molecular
Environmental Health, Young C. Lin of the Department of
Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology, and Jessie L. Au of the
College of Pharmacy.
     -- A new pesticide delivery system to reduce environmental
contamination, funded with $110,000 from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture.  The project leader is Franklin R. Hall, Department
of Entomology, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center.
The research involves development of a twin-nozzle pesticide
application system that will increase pesticide application
efficiency resulting in more cost-effective pest control with
less pesticide required, reducing drift and reducing
environmental contamination.
     -- Enhancing elementary science through leadership teams and
collaborative partnerships linking teachers with environmental
science professionals.  A four-day institute will be held,
emphasizing a hands-on, inquiry approach to science education.
Then, teachers will implement and assess the activities and
curriculum.  The program involves a five-county, mostly rural
area and is being funded with $59,464 from the Ohio Board of
Regents.  The project leader is Deborah L. Bainer of the
Department of Educational Theory and Practice at The Ohio State
University-Mansfield.

Ohio State to Acquire Condominium

     The board authorized The Ohio State University Foundation to
accept the first floor business condominium in Riverwatch Tower,
364 W. Lane Ave., subject to an indebtedness of about $527,000,
from Ronald S. Ohsner of Upper Arlington.
     The 9,604 square-foot office space is occupied by the
offices of the Treasurer and of Equipment Inventory and has an
average appraised value of $552,500.
     The university will loan the foundation money, at the
current interest rate, to pay off the mortgage.  The foundation
will then use the rental income from the offices to pay back the
university.
     The donor is also providing about $60,000 in cash or
securities to Ohio State to further pay down the indebtedness.
University officials said that Ohio State will save at least
$40,000 a year by accepting the property instead of continuing
the existing lease.
     The acquisition is subject to a memorandum of understanding
between the university and the foundation.

Other Business

     In other business, Trustees:

     -- Awarded the title of professor emeritus to Bryan E. Wilde
of GRANVILLE and the Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, effective Jan. 1, 1995.

     -- Voted to buy a two-story brick and frame house and land
at 1602-1604 Neil Avenue from The Ohio State University
Foundation for $103,100 plus the Foundation's costs.  The
foundation bought the property at sheriff's sale for $103,100 on
Nov. 4.  The property is deemed important for the university's
long-range plans for the South Campus area.  Immediate plans are
to use the property for housing.

     -- Amended the terms of two members of The Ohio State
University - Newark Board of Trustees.  At the request of J.
Gilbert Reese and with the consent of board chair Patsy P. Jones,
the overall university board changed Reese's term from three
years to one year ending in 1995 and Jones's term from one year
to three years ending in 1997.

     -- Approved fiscal 1993-94 non-mandatory transfers from
Current Funds to Endowment Principal Funds, Annuity and Life
Income Funds, Unexpended Plant Funds, Renewal and Replacement
Funds, and Retirement of Indebtedness Funds.

     -- Received a report on the status of debt reduction plans
from William J. Shkurti, vice president for finance.

     -- Held a discussion with Students for Students regarding a
new student union and heard reports from student government
leaders.

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Contact:  Tom Spring, University Communications,
          (614) 292-8309.


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