OHIO UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES APPROVE
BUDGET FOR 1997-98 FISCAL YEAR
6/27/97
ATHENS, Ohio -- The Ohio University Board of Trustees
Friday (6/27/97) approved a $328 million budget for the 1997-98
fiscal year.
The budget, up from $307 million for the fiscal year ending
June 30, includes a 5 percent tuition increase. The increase raises
annual in-state undergraduate tuition from $3,885 this year to
$4,080 in 1997-98.
In other action, trustees:
Approved university wide pay increases for non-bargaining
unit employees, from clerical assistants to executive officers.
Faculty and non-bargaining unit staff received pay increases from a
compensation pool increased by 4 percent. Graduate student
teaching and research stipends also were increased 4 percent.
Approved promotion and tenure awards for faculty at the
Athens and regional campuses.
Recommended the creation of a master's program in
communication technology and policy in the J. Warren McClure
School of Communication Systems Management. The graduate
program would be an extension of the school's undergraduate
degree in communication technology and policy, the only one of its
type in Ohio. The recommendation will be considered by the Ohio
Board of Regents.
Approved a six-year capital improvements plan for
submission to the Ohio Board of Regents that requires $43 million
to $45 million in state capital funding in each of the next three
biennial budgets, through 2004. Trustees also received a plan that
reflects cash flow based on experience with a new capital funding
formula that would extend projects to renovate academic and
service facilities to 2014. High on both lists are completion of
Grover Center renovations and rehabilitation or construction of
classrooms for biological and social sciences.
Recommended the creation of a new degree to be offered by
Ohio University's Lancaster campus. The associate in applied
science degree in medical assisting technology would offer
students education in both the clinical and business areas of
medicine. The program now will go to the Ohio Board of Regents
for consideration.
Approved the creation of the Institute for Democracy in
Education, a program that began informally in 1985 in the College
of Education to offer support to educators around the world.
Approved the creation of the Center for Consultative Sales in
the College of Business, a center for sales education.
Appointed three new members to the Coordinating Council
at the university's Zanesville campus to replace retiring members.
Appointed were Jeffrey Rice, James McDonald and Carlotta
Workman.
Approved the hiring of a consulting engineer to plan
construction of a bridge from the university golf course over the
Hocking River to relocate several golf course holes lost to Ping
Center tennis court construction. The plan would allow the
university to retain a nine-hole golf course and other green
space.
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