Trustees: Miscellaneous Actions

ACTIONS OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

     COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees on
Wednesday (8/31) created a new endowed chair and other funds,
approved research contracts, and conducted other business as
follows:

Annual gift giving reaches nearly $95 million

     Jerry May, vice president for development, reported that
gifts to the university's Endowment Fund increased 6 percent
during the fiscal year ending June 30.
     Ohio State received gifts totaling $94,884,179, up from
89,200,327 in fiscal 1993.  The largest increase in funds by
category, 28 percent, came as gifts for buildings and equipment,
while the largest dollar amount of funds, $55,414,083, was
specified by donors for program support.

Endowed chair created in Medicine; other funds established

     Trustees created The Gilbert and Kathryn Mitchell Chair in
the College of Medicine, and named M. Ronald Glaser, associate
vice president for health sciences, to the post.  The chair was
established with gifts totaling $1,657,273.09.  The fund was
established in 1979 by Gilbert and Kathryn Mitchell, of Columbus
to support the work of a scholar conducting research on cancer
and diseases of the heart, kidney and eyes.

     In addition to the Mitchell Chair, the board established
four other funds in the health sciences:

     =FE The Melvin L. Schottenstein Cancer Research Endowment
Fund, $39,003.

     =FE The Penny and Ray Karlsberger Fund for Endocrine Cancer
Research, $16,490.

     =FE The Edith Crowley Blessing Scholarship Fund in the College
of Nursing, $40,000.

     =FE The H. Ward and Sara Ewalt Permanent Endowed Scholarship
Fund in the College of Optometry, $15,000.

     Lectures and student scholarships will be funded from
endowments established as:

     =FE The Alma Herbst Memorial Lecture Fund for lectures in
labor economics in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences,
$20,000.

     =FE The Charles H. Ingraham Scholarship Fund for scholarships
in agricultural economics, $17,212.

     =FE The Nathan Fechheimer Memorial Lecture Series in Animal
Breeding and Production, Department of Animal, Dairy and Poultry
Science, $16,964.

     =FE The Jeanne Bonnet McCoy Presidential Scholarship Fund in
the University Honors Center, $400,000.

Board approves research contracts

     Trustees accepted 308 contracts for research projects
totaling $27,617,863.60.  Special mention was given to:

     =FE Enhancing the competitiveness of the U.S. die casting
industry by examining the feasibility of plasma surface
modification, developing sensors and systems for improved die
casting, and determining the cause of die soldering in zinc die
castings.  The Department of Energy has awarded $538,704 to R.
Allen Miller of the Department of Industrial and Systems
Engineering and Carroll E. Mobley Jr. of the Department of
Materials Science and Engineering.

     =FE Phase II trials of new anticancer drugs and treatments
funded with $238,440 from the National Cancer Institute.  The
drugs are topotecan in ovarian cancer, clomesone in breast
cancer, and cyclosporin A in acute leukemia.  The research is
being conducted by a consortium involving Ohio State's
Comprehensive Cancer Center, Mount Carmel, Grant, Riverside, and
Park hospitals in Columbus; Christ in Cincinnati; Shadyside in
Pittsburgh; and Greenville, in Greenville, S.C.  Stanley P.
Balcerzak of the Department of Internal Medicine is the principal
researcher at Ohio State.

     Development of a decision support system for maintaining and
rehabilitating roads in the state.  The system would help
engineers select treatment processes for minor rehabilitations,
establish criteria and guidelines for their use and estimated
service life of each process.  The research is to be conducted by
Fabian C. Hadipriono of the Department of Civil Engineering with
$137,324 provided by the Ohio Department of Transportation.

     =FE Establishment of a summer institute for minority
undergraduate students in computational science to encourage them
to conduct graduate work in the discipline.  James C. Turner Jr.
of the Department of Mathematics is leading the project, funded
with $106,085 from Central State University.

Resolutions in memoriam adopted

     The board passed resolutions in memoriam for:

     =FE Robert L. Bates, professor emeritus in the Department of
Geological Sciences, who died June 21.

     =FE Patricia E. Blosser, professor in the Department of
Educational Studies: Humanities, Science, Technological, and
Vocational, who died March 17.

     =FE Gordon E. Gatherum, professor emeritus and former director
of the School of Natural Resources and former associate dean of
the College of Agriculture and Home Economics, who died Feb. 7.

     =FE Roy M. Kottman, vice president and executive dean emeritus
of the former College of Agriculture and Home Economics, who died
June 4.

     =FE James W. Long, assistant professor emeritus, Department of
Ophthalmology, and former associate dean of the College of
Biological Sciences, who died Nov. 1.

     =FE Richard O. Moore, professor emeritus in the Department of
Biochemistry, who died June 8.

     =FE Merton D. Oyler, professor emeritus in the Department of
Sociology, who died Jan. 14.

     =FE Duane R. Skidmore, professor emeritus in the Department of
Chemical Engineering, who died April 15.

     =FE T. Scott Sutton, associate dean emeritus of the former
College of Agriculture and Home Economics and professor emeritus
of the Department of Animal Science, who died July 17.

     =FE Robert J. Stull, professor emeritus and former chairperson
of the Department of Art and former associate dean of the College
of the Arts, who died July 7.

     =FE I. Keith Tyler, professor emeritus in the Department of
Educational Policy and Leadership, who died April 4.

     =FE Margaret Carey Tyler, assistant professor emeritus in the
Department of Educational Policy and Leadership, who died April
21.

MISCELLANEOUS ACTIONS AND REPORTS

     In other matters, trustees:

     =FE Heard reports about university restructuring, the 1994-95
academic agenda of the Office of Academic Affairs, and funding of
computer information systems projects.

     =FE Heard presentations about characteristics and activities
of the Max M. Fisher College of Business and The Ohio State
University Alumni Association.

     =FE Heard a report on four changes being made to improve
campus safety by Ron Michalec, police chief.  They are: (1) a new
communications center that will consolidate the 16 different
radio systems currently in use by police, Traffic and Parking,
Physical Facilities and other safety-related departments; (2)
renovation of the 36 "blue-light" campus emergency phones and
installation of 40 additional such phones along High Street, at
parking garages and bus stops and along 11th and 12th avenues;
(3) a new 911 system that will direct all 911 calls from campus
pay phones to University Police rather than Columbus; (4)
expansion of the community policing programs.
     The community policing programs include working with
Columbus Police, the Office of Residence and Dining Halls and
area bar owners on alternatives to alcohol consumption.  Michalec
said University Police headquarters will be the new home of the
Crimewatch Escort Service operated by the Undergraduate Student
Government.  Police will be helping to make the popular service
more efficient and effective.  The Crimewatch Escort Service
provides free van rides or walking escorts to campus and near
off-campus locations during the evenings.

     =FE Gave permission to establish and fund a captive insurance
company in Bermuda to expand the university's liability insurance
program.  The move allows Ohio State, through the captive
company, to negotiate and purchase insurance directly from a
reinsurer, rather than through an intermediary.  It also allows
payment of premium to the captive firm instead of the
intermediary.  According to Ohio State officials, the premium can
then be used to build capital in the captive company, thereby
strengthening the financial position of the hospitals' risk
financing program.

     =FE Reviewed a proposal to acquire University Reference Lab, a
for-profit corporation owned by 28 Ohio State employees.
University officials said the lab has operated with a small
profit margin for several years.  The lab processes toxicology
and histology tests and collects specimens from various locations
and conveys them to other labs for testing.  Acquiring the lab
will give University Hospitals a well-regarded toxicology testing
program along with marketing presence and expertise, the
officials reported.

     =FE Discussed a memorandum of understanding for delegating
purchasing authority to University Hospitals.

     =FE Approved 66 waivers of competitive bidding requirements
for purchases totaling $13,618,500.  Fifty-two waivers were for
purchases from sole-source suppliers, two for emergency reasons
and 21 for economic reasons.

     =FE Approved a 5 percent salary increase for President E.
Gordon Gee, bringing his annual salary to $168,504.  Because of
the university's budget constraints in recent years, the
president along with other top administrators, had not had a
salary increase since July 1991, when it was set at $160,476.

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