Ohio University Board of Trustees approves two new programs

The Ohio College Board of Trustees obtained an replace on the Housing Grasp Plan and authorised an up to date Capital Enchancment Plan and a pair of latest diploma applications throughout its conferences June 13-14.

Representatives from the Scripps Faculty of Communication additionally shared how the faculty incorporates experiential studying all through the curriculum, particularly within the esports program. 

Board agenda gadgets included:

Scripps’ experiential studying technique within the GRID Lab and OHIO Esports Area

Scripps Faculty of Communication college students and college joined Dean Scott Titsworth to debate the Faculty’s emphasis on experiential studying alternatives, highlighting the Sport Analysis Immersive Design (GRID) Lab and the brand new OHIO Esports Area. They reviewed how the J. Warren McClure Faculty of Rising Communication Applied sciences is a key collaborator with different educational items to increase the educational alternatives obtainable at OHIO, notably in esports. The presentation included the myriad methods experiential studying fosters life-long curiosity and problem-solving, in addition to how the Scripps Faculty is addressing rising pupil pursuits and business traits. 

The Board toured the brand new OHIO Esports Area, which may have its grand opening in Fall Semester 2022. The sector will increase college students’ alternatives for curricular and co-curricular experiential studying with its state-of-the-art esports enviornment that homes 30 high-end gaming PCs obtainable for each classroom instruction and pupil co-curricular use, 12 high-end gaming PCs to be used in competitors, and a broadcasting facility designed to stream aggressive occasions to Twitch, YouTube, and different modern streaming platforms.

Well being care model marketing campaign growth

College Communications and Advertising and marketing Vice President Robin Oliver shared an replace on the event of a brand new branding marketing campaign selling Ohio College’s management in making ready college students for careers in well being care. 

Following analysis and conversations with educational management, Ohio College has determined to pursue a phased method to focus on key areas of educational excellence, starting with well being care schooling and repair. College Communications and Advertising and marketing has developed the path for the well being care model marketing campaign with enter from Faculty of Well being Sciences and Professions Interim Dean John McCarthy, Voinovich Faculty of Management and Public Service Dean Mark Weinberg, and Heritage Faculty of Osteopathic Medication Government Dean and OHIO Chief Medical Affairs Officer Ken Johnson. The purpose is to launch the well being care marketing campaign this fall. 

New diploma applications

Two new levels, one within the Faculty of Positive Arts and the opposite within the Faculty of Well being Sciences and Professions, have been authorised for Fall Semester 2022.

A Grasp of Arts in Utilized Arts in Well being within the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Arts within the Faculty of Positive Arts is designed for college students with an undergraduate diploma in fantastic arts who need to increase their observe to securely and successfully have interaction inside the arts in well being care and neighborhood environments post-graduation. The Grasp of Utilized Arts in Well being is a 30-credit hour, hybrid, one-year program and could be certainly one of solely two applications within the nation to supply one of these diploma.

A singular interdisciplinary diploma that comes with electives exterior of fantastic arts, this system could be the one one within the nation with a core curriculum designed and taught by fantastic arts clinicians and students who’ve information and in depth experience in arts in well being disciplines and developed completely for fantastic arts college students.

The Bachelor of Science in Diet and Meals Research within the Faculty of Utilized Well being Sciences and Wellness within the Faculty of Well being Sciences and Professions is a 120-credit hour undergraduate program that might join what individuals eat to how they dwell via the vitamin foundations; modern meals consciousness; cultural, social and political features of meals methods; and setting and sustainability. College students will work together with school in as many as 5 faculties and a dozen or extra departments on this multi-disciplinary program. 

Price adjustments

The Board authorised adjustments to a number of broad-based and course charges in addition to this system payment for a graduate program and eCampus charges. It additionally reviewed adjustments to tuition and costs that have been set earlier this spring.

• Fall 2022 OHIO Assure tuition and costs for Athens campus undergraduates will likely be $13,352 for full-time college students, as communicated to the incoming class earlier this spring. The brand new charges symbolize a 4% enhance for the cohort. The College’s dedication below the OHIO Assure signifies that incoming college students’ charges will likely be held fixed for 4 years (12 semesters together with summers).
• Housing and meal plan charges have been established for the 2022 cohort, with variable will increase averaging 4.6% versus the 2021 cohort charges.
• Bobcat Pupil Orientation will enhance the one-day and two-day visitor charges from $20 to $35 for someday and $60 for 2 days.
• A Language Examination Proctoring payment will likely be established as a $5 non-compulsory payment for college students who need to take a proctored examination to show competency to check out of language necessities.
• Ohio College Lancaster will implement course charges for the brand new nursing program related to certification testing. 
• Aviation programs will see a rise to current course charges related to gasoline and flight teacher value. These course charges haven’t modified in 10 years. 
• The Grasp of Engineering Administration proposes a change in its program payment from $192 to $217 per credit score hour. This request displays the primary enhance since FY2020. The proposed complete value per credit score hour, after the rise, will stay 38% beneath in-state competitors.
• OHIO On-line will enhance its tutorial charges for eCampus undergraduate programs from $237 per credit score hour to $304 per credit score hour. The non-resident payment will enhance from $3 per credit score hour to $5 per credit score hour. On-line program pricing has not been modified because the quarter-to-semester conversion in FY13. There may also be a $25 per credit score hour program payment for the 9 core programs within the new on-line Bachelor of Science in Enterprise.

Capital funds

The Board authorised a number of capital initiatives to deal with deferred upkeep considerations and align the operate of areas with present programming wants.

The initiatives embody:

• Stocker Middle deferred upkeep and programmatic renovation ($14.7 million): This mission combines two initiatives authorised within the FY23-28 Capital Enchancment Plan: Stocker HVAC Part 1 and Stocker Plumbing, HVAC, Programmatic Part 2. This mission’s preliminary part will repair/stabilize methods that exist inside the constructing whereas paralleling that work with a design effort coordinated with the Workplace of the Government Vice President and Provost, Russ Faculty of Engineering and Know-how, College Planning, Design and Building and Amenities Upkeep to find out the longer term intent of areas inside the constructing. 
• Boyd, Sargent, Treudley, and Tiffin lobbies renovation ($6.5 million): This mission will renovate the lobbies of the 4 residence halls to enhance the performance of the areas and improve the aesthetics.  
• Ohio College Lancaster HVAC and Power Enhancements Part III ($2.36 million): This mission addresses important constructing mechanical methods which have reached or exceeded their helpful life and are vital in sustaining constructing integrity. 
• Ohio College Lancaster Brasee Corridor Nursing Renovations Part I ($602,500): This mission will enable growth of a brand new educational program to suit market calls for, reply to neighborhood and regional wants, present future progress, and enhance RHE enrollments and revenues. The renovation will embody components of the fourth and fifth flooring for 2 tutorial nursing labs, two remark/testing rooms, and an administrative house for the brand new program.  

Capital Enchancment Plan

Interim Vice President for Finance and Administration, CFO and Treasurer Joseph Trubacz and Chief Facility Officer and Senior Affiliate Vice President Steve Wooden offered an replace for the FY23 Annual Capital Enchancment Plan (CIP). The annual CIP represents prioritized initiatives anticipated to start over the following yr, together with initiatives at present in design and building with anticipated expenditures in FY23. 

As a part of the annual CIP replace course of, management thought of elements reminiscent of deferred upkeep wants, programmatic priorities, vital rising wants, and working funds constraints. Because of this, the College is contemplating $160.7 million in new mission begins and persevering with $239.8 million of initiatives in progress. The Board additionally authorised $11.1 million of Century Bond 2023 funds for deferred upkeep priorities.

Housing Grasp Plan replace

Interim Vice President for Pupil Affairs Terry Hogan and contracted consultants offered an replace on the Housing Grasp Plan, together with a evaluation of key plan drivers reminiscent of amount and placement of housing, goal market and programmatic necessities knowledgeable by peer and pupil/father or mother survey outcomes, monetary accessibility and high quality reconciliation and monetary efficiency and capabilities. The replace included funding and funding approaches that meet recognized technique and objectives. 

In different enterprise, the Board:

• Permitted the annual reappointment of President Hugh Sherman for a time period starting July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2023, crediting him with creating an open environment of belief and accountability and, together with his staff, figuring out areas of alternative for a sustainable future for the College.
• Permitted the conferral of an honorary diploma to Director Emerita Distinguished Professor of Dance Gladys Bailin Stern, who in 1986 grew to become OHIO’s first lady to be named a distinguished professor. Bailin Stern taught within the Faculty of Positive Arts’ Faculty of Dance from 1972 till 2018, main the varsity to nationwide prominence and distinguishing it as one of many first trendy dance-based applications within the state.
• Permitted the conferral of an honorary diploma to Dr. Atsuo Iiyoshi, a distinguished physicist and educational chief serving as Chancellor and Chairman of the Board of Administrators of Chubu College in Japan. Iiyoshi has been acknowledged 3 times as professor emeritus by two universities and the Nationwide Institute for Fusion Science, and obtained the 2018 Physician Honoris Causa from the Russian Academy of Science. Iiyoshi has strengthened Chubu College’s partnership with Ohio College for greater than twenty years, established the Kazuo Yamada Scholarship for a whole lot of OHIO college students to attend Chubu College, and supported Chubu’s present which allowed for the renovation and enlargement of Yamada Worldwide Home on the Athens campus. His efforts contributed to the creation of the Ryozo Ohnishi Graduate Fellowship, providing OHIO graduates full tuition scholarships to review in a Chubu College graduate program, in addition to the corresponding creation of an analogous program permitting Chubu college students to review at OHIO.
• Heard an replace on growing fall 2022 enrollment traits and obtained suggestions on revising Ohio College’s Faculty Credit score Plus program, illustrating how the adjustments will strengthen relationships with service space college districts, enhance enrollment and entry to the OHIO expertise, and enhance the college-going tradition of Southeastern Ohio.
• Permitted an easement for town of Athens to permit town to increase a bit of motorbike path alongside West Union Road. The parcel is about 1,250 ft lengthy and 50 ft large.
• Permitted an easement for Horizon Telecom to put in fiber optic strains to attach a cell tower on The Ridges to a line on Dairy Lane. The road could be buried and put in via horizontal drilling to attenuate floor impression.
• Permitted a long-term lease of land to town of Athens of roughly 10.6 acres of land east of Stimson Avenue and north of the Hocking River. The lease will enable town to construct a brand new fireplace station and keep the remainder of the house as inexperienced house. The station is perfect for town, but in addition will present improved response instances to the Athens Campus. The 40-year lease might be prolonged in 10-year increments upon mutual settlement. In return, town will lease roughly 17.8 acres of land on the intersection of Dairy Lane and Richland Avenue, extending up South Park Drive, to the College, below the identical lease phrases because the Stimson parcel. Different leases between town and College are additionally included.
• Licensed an annual audit plan to guage inside administration controls.
• Modified the title of the Division of Communication Sciences and Issues within the Faculty of Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences within the Faculty of Well being Sciences and Professions to Listening to, Speech and Language Sciences, which extra totally captures the breadth of analysis carried out inside the unit and incorporates American Signal Language.
• Accepted program critiques for the Honors Tutorial Faculty; Interdisciplinary Well being Research within the Faculty of Well being Sciences and Professions; Journalism and Mass Communication within the Scripps Faculty of Communication; and Particular person Interdisciplinary Applications within the Graduate Faculty.
• Permitted the appointment of members to the coordinating councils of OHIO’s 5 regional campuses for phrases starting July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2025. They’re:
  • John A. Gabis (Chillicothe), Terry Lee (Jap, reappointment), Rick Szabrak (Lancaster, reappointment), Jennifer Hellmich and Jodi Rowe-Collins (Southern, each reappointment), and Eric Martin, Patrick Nash and Brian Wagner (Zanesville, all reappointments). 
• Permitted emeriti standing for people for his or her devoted service to Ohio College upon their retirement.
• Acquired a report on 10 new graduate certificates obtainable throughout OHIO’s faculties.
• Permitted school fellowship leaves to permit school members to focus on analysis and scholarly exercise.
• Permitted the College’s completion plan replace for 2022. The plan outlines the College’s emphasis on first-year retention and commencement charges, enlargement of the OHIO Assure+, evaluation of normal schooling tips, and dedication to being an inclusive excellence campus.
• Appointed Janelle Coleman to function a Nationwide Trustee for a time period that begins July 1, 2022, via June 23, 2023.
• Appointed David Moore to function Board secretary from July 1, 2022, via June 30, 2023.
• Appointed Joe Trubacz as Treasurer of the Board for a time period starting July 1, 2022. If a brand new interim vice chairman for finance and administration is appointed after that date, that particular person shall take over the position of Treasurer till June 30, 2023, or till a everlasting vice chairman for finance and administration is appointed.

The total Board of Trustees agenda is on the market at https://www.ohio.edu/trustees.