Trustees: Presonnel + Miscellaneous

ACTIONS OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

     CLEVELAND -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees met
Friday at the Cleveland Clinic.  Trustees heard reports on the
three-year-old partnership between Ohio State and the Cleveland
Clinic Foundation's Health Sciences Center.  Through the
partnership, the two institutions strengthen their research and
academic programs, broaden options for clinical training of
medical students, and consolidate resources.

      Actions of the board are summarized below.

Jenson appointed to accounting professorship
     Trustees appointed Daniel L. Jensen of UPPER ARLINGTON to
hold the Deloitte and Touche Accounting Professorship in the Max
M. Fisher College of Business.  Jensen, a professor in the
Department of Accounting and Management Information Systems, was
appointed through September 1999.
     Jensen joined Ohio State in 1980 when trustees appointed him
to the Ernst and Whinney Professorship in accounting.  He has
taught courses in cost accounting, managerial control, advanced
financial accounting and a seminar in managerial accounting.
Jensen received the Ohio Outstanding Accounting Educator Award in
1991.  He is one of the authors of Advanced Accounting, now in
its third edition and Financial Accounting, now in its fourth
edition.
     A certified public accountant, Jensen has taught at the
University of Illinois and at Purdue and Indiana universities.
He earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of
Minnesota and his doctorate at Ohio State.

Pernell appointed vice provost
     Trustees appointed LeRoy Pernell of COLUMBUS (43209) as vice
provost for minority affairs, retroactive to Sept. 1.
A professor of law, Pernell had been the interim vice provost for
minority affairs for the past year.
     As vice provost, Pernell has responsibilities for the Office
of Minority Affairs, the Young Scholars Program, and the Frank W.
Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center as well as for minority student
recruitment and retention, affirmative action plans, and the
Faculty Hiring Assistance Program.  The Office of Minority
Affairs coordinates all activities aimed at recruiting,
counseling, aiding and promoting minority students, faculty and
staff.  The office has an annual budget of more than $4.5 million
and a staff of 65.
     A 1974 graduate of Ohio State's College of Law, Pernell
joined the law faculty in 1975.  His teaching areas include
criminal procedure, juvenile law, torts, product liability, and
various clinics and seminars.  He has been involved in a series
of legislative reform projects at the state and national level,
mostly related to juvenile justice.
     Pernell directed four six-week institutes sponsored by the
Council on Legal Educational Opportunity, which provided study
and orientation for 30 economically disadvantaged minority law
school applicants.
     He is a past member and chair of the university's Athletic
Council, a hearing officer for the University Faculty Review
Panel, a member of the Law Professors Advisory Committee of the
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and faculty advisor to the Black Law
Student Association.

Department chairs appointed in Engineering and Education
     The board appointed R. Allen Miller and Keith W. Bedford to
chair two new academic departments in the College of Engineering
through June 1998:
     =FE Miller, of JOHNSTOWN, will head a yet-to-be-named
department that combines the former departments of Industrial and
Systems Engineering and of Welding Engineering.  A professor of
industrial and systems engineering, Miller's research interests
are in the areas of design for manufacture, particularly die
casting and injection molding; die/mold design; and the
development of environments to support part and die/mold design.
     He is the director of the Center for Die Casting and the new
Practice-Oriented Manufacturing Engineering Program, and a
participant in the Engineering Research Center for Net Shape
Manufacturing.  Miller received the MacQuigg Award for Excellence
in Teching in 1975 and the College of Engineering Research Award
in 1982.  He earned his doctorate in control and systems
engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1971, the
year he joined the Ohio State faculty.  Miller has two degrees in
mechanical engineering, a bachelor's from Union College and a
master's from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
     =FE Bedford, of UPPER ARLINGTON, will head another department
combining old departments of Civil Engineering and Engineering
Graphics.  He joined Ohio State in 1974, the year he earned his
doctorate from the Cornell University School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering.  He has bachelor's and master's
degrees in mechanical engineering from Union College in New York.
     A professor of civil engineering, Bedford is one of three
authors of the ninth edition of Fluid Mechanics.  He is a
recipient of the Huber and Hilgard prizes from the American
Society of Civil Engineers.

     Trustees also named Stuart H. Zweben of DUBLIN as
chairperson of the Department of Computer and Information Science
through June 1998.  Zweben recently began a two-year term as
president of the Association for Computing Machinery, the oldest
educational and scientific society in the computing field.
     A faculty member since 1974, Zweben specializes in computer
software engineering, evaluation and reuse.  He has a bachelor's
degree in math from City College of New York, a master's degree
in statistics and computer science and a doctorate in computer
sciences, both from Purdue University.

     In addition, Beverly M. Gordon of WORTHINGTON was appointed
acting chairperson of the Department of Educational Policy and
Leadership through September 1995.

Faculty given emeritus status
     Trustees granted titles of professor emeritus to:
     =FE Virginia G. Allen, COLUMBUS (43214), Department of
Educational Theory and Practice, Marion Campus, retroactive to
Sept. 1.
     =FE Franklin D. Demana, COLUMBUS (43229), Department of
Mathematics, retroactive to Oct. 1.
     =FE Hans-Erich Keller, UPPER ARLINGTON, Department of French
and Italian, retroactive to July 1.
     =FE Leopold Liss, UPPER ARLINGTON, Department of Pathology,
retroactive to Sept. 1.
     =FE Carl H. Popelar, Department of Engineering Mechanics,
retroactive to July 1.

Resolutions in memoriam
     The board passed resolutions in memoriam for:
     =FE Richard R. Davis, professor emeritus, Department of
Agronomy and former assistant director, Ohio Agricultural
Research and Development Center, who died Feb. 20 at age 70.
     =FE Allen W. Hall, associate dean and professor emeritus,
College of Dentistry, and first dentist of the Ohio State
football team, who died July 30.
     =FE Philip B. Hardymon, clinical professor emeritus,
Department of Surgery, who died Aug. 31.
     =FE Gilman D. Kirk, assistant professor emeritus, Department
of Surgery, who died Sept. 3.
     =FE John R. Knoderer, assistant professor emeritus, College of
Dentistry, who died Aug. 17.
     =FE Harold E. Reynard, professor emeritus, Department of
Educational Services and Research, who died July 5.
     =FE Donald B. Robinson, professor emeritus, Department of
Agricultural Education and Ohio State University Extension, who
died Aug. 17.
     =FE Rudolph Speiser, professor emeritus, Department of
Materials Science and Engineering, who died Feb. 4.

Park named in honor of Ernest Johnson
     Trustees named a park next to Dodd Hall on the Columbus
campus as The Ernest W. Johnson Park.  The park, at Ninth Avenue
and Cannon Drive, was designed to enhance the therapeutic
rehabilitation of and improve the quality of life for patients in
Dodd Hall.  The park is accessible by wheelchair and contains
vegetable and flower gardens, wide graded paths, a rubberized
asphalt basketball court and playfield, and a rubberized two-lane
wheelchair relay track.
     The park was named after Ernest W. Johnson, associate dean
of the College of Medicine, to reflect his role as an advocate
for the physically challenged.
     Johnson, of UPPER ARLINGTON, was chairperson of the
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation for 25 years,
and helped mold Dodd Hall into one of the top 10 rehabilitation
hospitals in the nation.
     Trustees waived a requirement in the bylaws that buildings
and structures not be named for university employees until they
have been retired for three years.

12 endowed funds approved
     Trustees established the following named endowed funds:
     =FE The Lane Avenue Horticulture Farm Endowment to support
program and operational needs of the Lane Avenue Horticultural
Farm, $173,932 in proceeds from the sale of the Overlook Farm.
     =FE The Bernard F. Master Athletic Scholarship Fund to provide
graint-in-aid scholarships to members of the men's varsity
basketball team, $130,750.
     =FE The OSU Mansfield Faculty Development Endowment Fund to
support research, programs, materials, and travel for Mansfield
faculty, $114,227.
     =FE The Gladys Foster Anderson Early Literacy Fund in the
College of Education, $75,000.
     =FE The Joseph J. and Nina Mae Mattus Scholarship in the
College of Human Ecology, $53,680.
     =FE The Joseph J. and Nina Mae Mattus Scholarship in the
College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,
$53,680.
     =FE The John Howard Jr. Memorial in Aviation Fund in the
Department of Aviation, $35,192.
     =FE The David M. Scott Memorial Scholarship Fund for students
in science and engineering at the Mansfield Campus, $15,527.
     =FE The Donald Collins Physical Therapy Memorial Scholarship
Fund in the School of Allied Medical Professions, $15,000.
     =FE The Dr. Henry E. Wilson Medical Scholarship Fund in the
College of Medicine, $15,000.
     =FE The Critical Difference Re-Entry Scholarship Endowment
Fund to provide financial aid to women who have interrupted their
university education to meet other responsibilities, $187,500.
     =FE The Elizabeth D. Gee Endowment Fund for Research on Women,
to provide grants for the Center for Women's Studies, $62,500.

Research contracts approved
     Trustees approved an agreement between the university and
the university's Research Foundation for 198 contracts and grants
totaling $16.2 million in August.  Projects singled out for
special mention were:
     =FE Research on stress, aging, and neuroendocrine-immune
changes.  The National Institute of Aging is providing $985,780
to M. Ronald Glaser of the Departemnt of Medical Microbiology and
Immunology, and Janice Kiecolt-Glaser and Robert C. Maccallum of
the Department of Psychiatry.
     =FE Study of the significance of lymphocytic alveolitis with
respect to lung injury and cytokine production.  The National
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute is providing $213,647 to Mark D.
Wewers, Philip T. Diaz, and James E. Gadek of the Department of
Internal Medicine.
     =FE A three-year study of reactive transport of contaminants
in variable density groundwater flow systems.  The Environmental
Protection Agency is providing $161,165 to Franklin W. Schwartz
in the Department of Geological Sciences.
     =FE A three-year study of the structure and properties of
high-paaladium dental alloys, which are used by dentists for
metal-ceramic restorations of teeth.  The National Institute of
Dental Research is providing $153,771 to William A. Brantley of
the College of Dentistry.
     For the fiscal year that ended July 30, Ohio State received
$208 million in research funds from government, industry and
other sources.  The largest amounts came from the Department of
Health and Human Services, 23.4 percent; the State of Ohio, 17.7
percent, and industry, 9.5 percent.
     The largest percentage of funds went to the College of
Medicine and university health services, 25 percent; the College
of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and agricultural
administration, 20.2 percent, and the College of Engineering,
15.2 percent.

Miscellaneous actions

     In other matters, trustees:

     =FE Authorized the university to enter into agreements to
provide for shared use of the Edison Joining Technology Center by
the Edison Welding Institute and the College of Engineering.  The
center is to be built along Lane Avenue on West Campus.  Under
the resolution, Ohio State may not spend more than $365,000 in
current dollars per year to support the costs of university use
of the facility.

     =FE Authorized officials to select architectural, engineering
and project management firms to work on the arena project.  The
arena, estimated to cost $75 million, will seat some 20,000
people and will be built north of Lane Avenue between Olentangy
River and Fyffe roads.

     =FE Approved a contract with Otis Elevator of Columbus to
renovate four elevators in Doan Hall and install a new one in
Rhodes Hall.  The contract is for $1,082,407.  The total project
cost of $1,380,600, is being funded from bond proceeds.  The work
is to be done by January 1996.

     =FE Voted to sell 16.198 acres of unimproved land at the
Piketon Research and Extension Center for at least $24,770 to the
State of Ohio.  The Ohio Department of Transportation will use
the land, east of Shyville Road, to improve the Appalachian
Highway (Ohio 32).  ODOT already has a perpetual easement on
3.198 acres of the strip.  Net proceeds from the sale will go to
the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, which
operates the Piketon facility.

     =FE Discussed Ohio State's lease of floor space in Riverwatch
Tower, 364 W. Lane Ave.  The first floor houses the offices of
the Treasurer and Equipment Inventory.
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