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Board of Trustees recap
By Leesa Brown,
Communications and Marketing
Ohio University will keep its requirement that freshman and sophomore students attending the Athens campus spend their first two years in a residence hall, despite the finding that some of those buildings will need upgrades over the next dozen years, said President Robert Glidden at last week's Board of Trustees meeting.
University officials will conduct an "intensive and thorough" review of the campus' capital plan to allow for the timely completion of key academic and service facilities that are critical to the University's mission.
Trustees also approved the following:
- a 3 percent raise for Glidden, who is completing his eighth year as president
- a consultant to oversee planning and renovation of the proposed behavioral and health care center to serve the Appalachian region. The project, which is contingent upon financial support from the Ohio Department of Mental Health, would integrate regional and state services with the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine and the colleges of Health and Human Services, Arts and Sciences and Fine Arts.
- an associate architect to oversee expansion of the Avionics Engineering research facility. The proposed facility, which will be located at the Ohio University Airport in Albany, will be about 10,000 square feet and will cost between $1.4 to $2 million.
- an Athens firm, Reiser, Valentour and Callahan Architects, Inc., to manage construction of the University's Innovation Center. The 32,000-square-foot facility will house a mixed-use business incubator, including space for a biotechnology laboratory, light manufacturing and general office space. The project will cost over $5.7 million and will be funded through federal grants from the Economic Development Administration ($1,422,588), Housing and Urban Development ($400,000), the Appalachian Regional Commission ($1 million) and university-generated revenue.
- a master's degree program in nursing -- the first in the region -- and a certificate in health services administration.
- a name change for the School of Comparative Arts. The school will now be called the School of Interdisciplinary Arts. The name change reflects a shift in the school's focus. Comparative implies preserving existing boundaries between the arts, to simply compare them, while interdisciplinary indicates the increasingly permeable boundaries between the arts. The change also is consistent with national academic standards for use of the term, as published by the Council of Arts Accrediting Associations.
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