Trustees: Personnel + Miscellaneous

TRIPODI NAMED ACTING DEAN OF SOCIAL WORK

     Trustees named Tony Tripodi, professor and associate
director of the Department of Social Work at Florida
International University, as acting dean and professor of the
College of Social Work for six months, beginning Jan. 1.

     As part of the overall restructuring of Ohio State,
discussion has been under way in various university committees on
a proposal to reorganize the college as a school within another
college.  Once a decision has been made, Tripodi, 61, is to be
given a permanent title as the head of Social Work in whatever
configuration it may become.

     The College of Social Work has about 600 students and 30
regular faculty members.  It offers the Bachelor of Social Work,
Master of Social Work and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.

     Since 1992, Tripodi has been at Florida International, where
he is associate director, coordinator of doctoral programs and
professor in the Department of Social Work.  He also has taught
at the universities of Pittsburgh, Michigan, and California at
Berkeley, and at Columbia University.

     Tripodi's teaching specialization is research methods and
applications.  He has also taught in the areas of crime and
delinquency, clinical judgment, and social welfare.  He is the
author of 14 books.  His most recent publications include A
Primer on Single-Subject Design for Clinical Social Workers, and
(with others) Involuntary Clients in Social Work Practice, A
Research Based Approach and Direct Practice Research in Human
Service Agencies.

     He has three degrees in social work: a doctorate from
Columbia, and bachelor's and master's degrees from Berkeley.
Tripodi will replace Beverly Toomey, acting dean since July 1993.
She will resume her post as professor.

WILLIS APPOINTED ASSOCIATE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

     Trustees appointed Miechelle O. Willis as associate director
of athletics and senior women's administrator in the Department
of Athletics, retroactive to Oct. 1.  She formerly was associate
athletic director at Temple University.

     Willis oversees 16 varsity sports, including men's and
women's basketball, and is the university's senior women's
administrator to the NCAA and Big Ten Conference.

     She has served as coach of cross country and track and field
athletes at Montclair State College in New Jersey, ticket
supervisor at Giants Stadium, and running trainer for individual
professional football players.  Willis has a bachelor's degree in
health and physical education and a master's degree in sports
administration from Grambling State University.  She is a
doctoral candidate in sports management and leisure studies at
Temple University.

BROWN HEADS MATHEMATICS; 5 NAMED ACTING CHAIRS

     The board appointed Robert B. Brown, professor of
mathematics, as chairperson of the Department of Mathematics
through June 1998.
     Brown is a specialist in algebra and actuarial science.  He
developed Ohio State's major in actuarial science for
undergraduates and designed and implemented the graduate program
in the subject.  Brown is a member of several actuarial
organizations and a consultant to life insurance companies, law
firms and accounting firms.
     He joined Ohio State in 1970 after teaching stints at the
University of Chicago, Roosevelt University in Chicago, the
University of California at Berkeley and the University of
Toronto.  Brown has a bachelor's degree from Harvard University
and master's and doctoral degrees from Chicago.

     The board named four faculty members as acting chairpersons
of departments and one member as acting director of a school.
They are:
     -- Richard H. Reuning, Division of Pharmaceutical
Administration, through June 1995.
     -- Allan M. Burkman, Division of Pharmacology, through March
1995.
     -- Matthew S. Platz, Department of Chemistry, through
September 1995.
     -- Lee B. Becker, School of Journalism, through September
1995.
     -- Robert E. Burnkrant, Department of Marketing, through
September 1995.

     Emeritus titles were awarded to:
     -- The late Kaye R. Everett, School of Natural Resources,
professor emeritus, retroactive to Oct. 1.  Everett, who lived in
JOHNSTOWN, died Oct. 21.
     -- Tien H. Wu, Department of Civil Engineering, professor
emeritus, retroactive to Oct. 1.
     -- John P. Henderson, College of Law, associate dean
emeritus, retroactive Nov. 1.
     -- Claude Lambert, Division of Speech and Hearing Science,
technical laboratory manager emeritus, retroactive to Nov. 1.
     -- David C. Marsh, Office of Finance, assistant vice
president for facilities planning emeritus, retroactive to Nov.
1.
     -- Alan C. Williams, College of Business, program director
emeritus, retroactive to Nov. 1.

     Trustees passed a resolution in memoriam for Margaret F.
"Mimi" McDonald, who died Sept. 11.  An associate professor
emeritus in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural
Sociology, McDonald was one of the nation's first female
agricultural economists.

BOARD ACCEPTS EIGHT NAMED ENDOWED FUNDS

     The board established eight new named endowed funds with
gifts totalling $790,667:
     -- The Ernst & Young Learning Resource Endowment for
Accounting Education, $600,000.
     -- The Jessie and Harold Zieg Medical Research Fund in the
Division of Rheumatology/Immunology, $50,000.
     -- The Dorothy Gall Malloy University Scholarship Fund,
$16,333.
     -- The Schottenstein, Zox & Dunn Instructional Media Fund in
Memory of Melvin L. Schottenstein, to provide electronic
instructional tools and programs in the College of Law Library,
$50,000.
     -- The Archaeological and Historic Textiles Fund to provide
program support for archaeological and historical textiles study
in the College of Human Ecology, $20,000.
     -- The Philip H. and Rhoda W. Gregory Scholarship Fund at
The Ohio State University - Mansfield, $20,000.
     -- The Joan Lewis McCoy Fund in the College of Nursing,
scholarships, $19,334.64.
     -- The Gallia County 4-H Endowment Fund, $15,000.

RESEARCH PROJECTS FUNDED

     Trustees accepted a report of 218 research awards, totaling
$27,445,926, for the month of September.  Studies singled out for
special mention include:

     -- A clinical trial and observational study, part of the
national Women's Health Initiative, funded with $2,189,462 by the
National Institutes of Health.  Ohio State will enroll 1,400
women in a clinical trial to test benefits and risks of dietary
modification, hormone replacement therapy, and calcium and
vitamin D supplementation on the health of post-menopausal women.
The observational study, to involve 2,200 women, will gather data
to try to improve risk prediction for coronary heart disease,
breast cancer, fractures, and total mortality in postmenopausal
women.  Rebecca D. Jackson, associate professor of internal
medicine, is the principal investigator at Ohio State.

     -- The College and University Partnership Program for the
Russian Federation.  Ohio State's colleges of Business,
Education, Engineering, and Food, Agricultural, and Environmental
Sciences will work with four academic institutions in Siberia to
develop a business curriculum in entrepreneurship and small
business.  David W. Cole and James C. Kinard of the Max M. Fisher
College of Business are heading the project, funded with $294,705
from the U.S. Information Agency.

     -- A program to increase the involvement of allied health
students, practitioners, and faculty in practice-based research,
strengthen research skills and disseminate and integrate research
findings into routine practice.  Mary R. Schiller, professor of
allied medical professions, is leading the program, funded with
$115,055 from the U.S. Health Resources and Services
Administration.

     -- A two-year project to identify new niche markets and
develop innovative marketing and distribution systems for
specialty agricultural products in the Appalachian region of
Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia.  Gregory R. Passewitz,
associate professor of Ohio State University Extension -
Community Development, is the project leader.  The U.S.
Department of Agriculture is providing $60,000.

     -- A program to incorporate simulations of construction
operations, using virtual reality, into the education of students
studying construction.  Fabian C. Hadipriono, associate professor
of civil engineering, is leading the program, funded at $50,000
by the National Science Foundation.

MISCELLANEOUS ACTIONS

     In other matters, trustees:

     -- Made housekeeping amendments in the Rules of the
University Faculty describing committees of the University
Senate.

     -- Ordered the conferring of degrees and certificates on
Dec. 9 to persons who have completed the requirements for them.

     -- Heard reports on the Wexner Center for the Arts by Sherri
Geldin, executive director; on university restructuring, by
Richard Sisson, senior vice president for academic affairs and
provost; and graduate student government, by Sandra Solano,
president of the Council of Graduate Students.

     -- Heard reports on proposed revisions and amendments to
faculty rules governing promotion and tenure policies by Nancy M.
Rudd, vice provost, and on the early retirement incentive plan,
by Edward A. Ray, senior vice provost.

     -- Waived competitive bidding requirements for 73 purchases
totaling $33,792,162, including 61 from sole-source suppliers,
four for emergency reasons, and eight for sufficient economic
reason during July, August and September.


[Submitted by: REIDV  (reidv@ccgate.ucomm.ohio-state.edu)
               
Fri, 04 Nov 1994 16:40:46 -0500 (EST)]
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