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OHIO
UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES APPROVE SIX-YEAR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT
BUDGET
ATHENS,
Ohio -- The Ohio University Board of Trustees approved a
six-year capital improvement budget plan at their meeting
Friday on the Athens campus. The capital improvement plan
for fiscal year 2000-2006 is divided into three two-year
periods and requires between $42.6 million and $44.2 million
for each period, according to Director of Facilities
Planning
John Kotowski.
Highlights
of the plan include:
- $23.9
million to renovate Baker Center.
- $8.7
million to complete the new $19.3 million Life Sciences
building.
- $14
million to renovate and build an addition on Bentley
Hall.
- $10.2
million to renovate McCracken Hall.
- $6.9
million to renovate Hudson Health Center.
- $13.8
million to renovate Seigfred Hall.
- $5.8
million to rehabilitate the President Street Academic
Center.
- $10
million to renovate the Lausche Steam Plant.
- $2.2
million to renovate Brasee Hall on the Lancaster
Campus.
- $2
million to complete the Technology Center on the
Southern
Campus.
In other
action the trustees:
- Praised
President
Robert Glidden and university personnel for spearheading
an initiative that placed personal computers and printers
in all first-year students' residence hall rooms. The
university plans to install computers in all residence
hall rooms by fall quarter 2000.
- Agreed
to contract with Rose Technology, Inc., an energy
management firm, to work with the university to retrofit
university energy systems. The contract is expected to
save the university millions of dollars over the next
decade.
- Toured
the Russ
College of Engineering
and praised student and faculty presentations and news
that the National Academy of Engineering will sponsor a
biennial $500,000 prize in honor of longtime Ohio
University benefactors Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ.
The
Russ Prize,
funded through a $5.8 million Ohio University endowment
from the Russes, becomes one of the top two engineering
prizes in the world. The trustees expressed an interest
in future tours of campus facilities and tours of other
colleges.
- Toured
the campus and visited current capital improvement
projects and the sites of future projects with
Vice
President for
Administration
Gary North.
- Expressed
concern about the issue of underage drinking in Athens
and indicated the subject would be a topic of
conversation with state and local officials.
- Conducted
a five-year review of university centers and institutes.
The trustees approved the continued operation of the
Center for International Business Education and
Development, the Center for Automatic Identification and
the Center for Higher Education and International
Programs, changing its name to the Center for Higher
Education to increase its focus on educational
institutions in southeast Ohio. The trustees discontinued
the Center for Political Communication and the Center for
Economic Education.
- Agreed
to join the Ohio Learning Network, a consortium of Ohio's
two- and four-year colleges that provides a clearinghouse
of courses offered through distance learning
technologies. The consortium provides learning options to
college students who are unable to attend classes on
college campuses.
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