Board of Trustees approves OHIO’s Housing Master Plan 2022

The Ohio College Board of Trustees accredited OHIO’s Housing Grasp Plan 2022 throughout conferences on OHIO’s Athens Campus earlier immediately.

The up to date plan is not going to solely form and information the College’s ongoing enchancment of, and funding in, the residential infrastructure throughout the Athens Campus by a mix of latest building and main and minor renovation tasks, it’ll additionally additional improve OHIO college students’ general residential expertise for a few years to return.

Ideas guiding the Housing Grasp Plan

The Housing Grasp Plan is pushed by a set of 5 core ideas that had been the results of months-long planning, peer evaluation, funds discussions and stakeholder engagement efforts with college students, mother and father and extra.

• Competitiveness: Assembly the evolving expectations of scholars and their households and remaining aggressive with different establishments.
• Capability: Sustaining an acceptable capability of beds, the flexibleness to adapt to evolving exterior components and to accommodate first- and second-year college students.
• Proximity: Sustaining proximity to the core campus, capitalizing on the neighborhood really feel of the East, West and South Greens and together with extra neighborhood areas (outdoors of sleeping areas) to permit for particular person or group examine, social and leisure actions, and different makes use of inside residence halls.
• Affordability: Guaranteeing investments which are made take into account pupil affordability and the College’s monetary assets.
• Wellbeing: Guaranteeing that the residential expertise nurtures inclusivity, wellbeing, accessibility and connectivity to outside areas, culinary venues, leisure services and transportation.

A deeper look into building-by-building funding suggestions, the identification of a web site thought-about for brand new building and a reiteration of buildings focused for eventual demolition are additionally included throughout the Housing Grasp Plan 2022. 

Future objectives and planning priorities

Shifting ahead, the College plans to additional combine the Housing Grasp Plan’s capital priorities into its broader Six-Yr Capital Enchancment Plan course of; moreover, it’ll proceed to work carefully with OHIO’s Enrollment Administration workforce and different stakeholders to make sure a complete evaluation of future residential capability assumptions will assist inform the suitable timing of deliberate capital tasks. 

As particular person main tasks within the Housing Grasp Plan are able to be carried out, they may first be delivered to the Board of Trustees for approval.