COLUMBUS - Three endowed chairs and one endowed professorship highlight the report on university development heard Friday (7/7) by The Ohio State University Board of Trustees. The trustees also accepted 19 new named endowed funds, for a total of more than $5.7 million in gifts to the university, approved a new funding plan for the Office of University Development, heard an update on the university's endowment, and approved academic appointments.

The Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Securities Studies was established with gifts of $1,287,215 from the family and friends of Woody Hayes. Income from the gift will support a faculty member in the Mershon Center in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. The board approved the appointment of John Mueller, currently professor of political science and film studies at the University of Rochester in New York, as the first holder of the Hayes chair.

Two endowed chairs - the Max Morehouse Chair in Cancer Research and the Martha Morehouse Chair in Arthritis and Immunology Research - were established with gifts of $1.25 million apiece from the estate of Martha Morehouse of COLUMBUS. The Max Morehouse Chair will be held by a nationally eminent faculty member in cancer research within the College of Medicine and Public Health, the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute and the Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Martha Morehouse Chair will be held by an eminent specialist in arthritis and immunology in the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology in the College of Medicine and Public Health.

A $500,000 gift from friends and colleagues of Dr. Ernest W. Johnson (B.A. Bio Sci. 1948; M.D. 1952; M.S. Med Sci 1957) established the Dr. Ernest W. Johnson Professorship to support research in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the College of Medicine and Public Health.

Named Endowed Funds

· The Dr. Edward E. and Sylvia Hagenlocker Chair Fund in Physics, $500,000, for support of a chair position in the College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

· The H. Fred Krimendahl II Presidential Scholarship Fund, $250,000, for scholarships in the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

· The Nick and Iris Swartz Hahn Scholarship Fund, $100,000, Irene J. Igoe, $100,000, for students preparing for a career in teaching

· The Glen Goltz Scholarship Fund, $99,050, for scholarships in the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

· The "Bud" Hirsch Golf Scholarship Fund, $50,000

· The Reba Belston Scholarship Fund, $36,000, for scholarships at OSU at Lima

· The Thomas A. Spieth Endowment Fund for Lymphoma Research, $35,666

· The Soloman Family Cancer Research Endowment Fund, $35,000

· Ohio Extension Agents Association and Epsilon Sigma Phi Fund, $32,666

· Kathleen E. Kendrick Scholarship Fund, $30,970, for scholarships in the College of Biological Sciences

· The Eloise L. Fisher Endowment Fund for Cancer Research, $30,505

· The Yoder Faculty Excellence Endowment Fund, $30,000, for faculty support in the Max M. Fisher College of Business

· The Kenneth O. Smith Mechanical Engineering Scholarship Fund, $25,500

· The Logan County 4-H Endowment Fund, $25,432

· The Beth Morlan Kinney Scholarship Fund, $25,000, for scholarships in the College of Human Ecology

· The Donald F. and Sally Kuntz Jones University Scholars Fund, $25,000, for merit scholarships for students majoring in engineering or nursing

· The Rodney B. Baldwin Scholarship Fund, $25,000, for scholarships in the College of Law

· The Yoder Undergraduate Scholarship Endowment Fund, $25,000, for scholarships in the Max M. Fisher College of Business

Change in Description of Named Endowed Professorship

· The Battelle Fund in Inhalation Therapeutics to the Battelle Professorship in Inhalation Therapeutics, established Sept. 1, 1999

Development funding plan approved

The Board of Trustees heard a report from Jerry May, vice president for University development and William J. Shkurti, senior vice president for business and finance, outlining a funding plan to make the Office of Development efforts fully self sustaining. They said this will release approximately $8 million in continuing general funds for strategic academic goals.

Currently about one-third of the development budget is funded by income generated from gift receipts, Shkurti said.

The board approved the proposal presented by Shkurti and May that will gradually replace current general funds resources through a combination of an increase in the charge against the endowment and establishment of an endowment in support of development. They said the funding plan calls for an increase in the charge against the endowment from .5 percent to 1.1 percent, which would not reduce current payouts to colleges and departments.

The new endowment in support of development would take some time to develop, they said, and additional consultations were needed with the colleges and donors before moving forward. The proposed endowment would combine unrestricted deferred gifts, endowment earnings investment growth and other sources.

Shkurti said current distributions to colleges and support for development efforts would not be reduced under the new funding plan, and the corpus of all gifts would go only for the purposes specified by the donors.

Board hears endowment report

University Treasurer James L. Nichols updated trustees on the University's endowment, which stood at $1.29 billion as of June 30. He reported that return on the endowment for fiscal year 1999-2000 was 18.9 percent.

Nichols also reported that this was the biggest year to date for additions to the endowment, with $53.3 million in new funds being added.

The board also heard an annual review of proxy guidelines presented by Nichols.

Appointments

· William H. Hall has been named interim vice president for student affairs, effective Aug. 1. Currently assistant vice president for student affairs, Hall joined the university staff in 1977 as director of residence and dining halls and was named vice president in 1994. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in education from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.

· John Mueller will hold the Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Securities Studies in the Department of Political Science in the Mershon Center, effective October 1, 2000, through September 30, 2005. Currently professor of political science and film studies at the University of Rochester, Mueller will hold appointments as professor of political science and professor of dance at Ohio State. He is a renowned scholar on war and peace, foreign policy, change in post-Communist nations, public opinion, as well as dance and theater. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

· Andrej Rotter has been named interim chair of the Department of Pharmacology in the College of Medicine and Public Health, effective July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2001. The professor of pharmacology received his Ph.D. from the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, U.K., and did post-doctoral training at the National Institutes of Health.

· E. Christopher Ellison has been named chair of the Department of Surgery in the College of Medicine and Public Health. The Robert M. Zollinger Professor of Surgery received his M.D. from the Medical College of Wisconsin and did his specialty training at Ohio State. He joined the university faculty in 1993.

· J. Richard Dietrich has been named chair of the Department of Accounting and Management Information Systems in the Max M. Fisher College of Business, effective Oct.1, 2000, through September 30, 2004. Currently on leave as the academic fellow in the SEC's Office of the Chief Accountant, Dietrich has been the Deloitte and Touche Professor of Accountancy at the University of Illinois since 1991. Prior to that he served 11 years on the University of Texas at Austin faculty. He earned his Ph.D. and three other degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University.

· David G. Horn has been named director of the Division of Comparative Studies in the College of Humanities, effective Oct. 1, 2000, through Sept. 30, 2004. Horn's areas of interest include cultural studies of science and medicine, the history of social thought, the politics and technologies of reproduction and feminist theory. He is the author of Social Bodies: Science, Reproduction, and Italian Modernity and is currently working on a study of 19th century criminal anthropology and forensic medicine. He received his doctorate in anthropolgy from the University of California at Berkeley.

· Daniel E. Collins has been named chair of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, effective Oct. 1, 2000, through Sept. 30, 2004. Collins, who received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, is a specialist in historical pragmatics , East and West Slavic linguistics, Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian linguistics and literature.

Reappointments

· Jack A. Rall, interim chair of the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, effective July 1, 2000, through Dec. 31, 2000

· Jerry R. Mendell, chair of the Department of Neurology, effective July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2001

· David E. Schuller, chair of the Department of Otolaryngology, effective July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2001

· Dimitros G. Spigos, chair of the Department of Radiology, effective July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2001

· Samson T. Jacob, chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, effective July1, 2000, through June 30, 2004

· Kent H. Hoblet, chair of the Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, effective July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2004

· Diane W. Birckbichler, director of the Foreign Language Center, effective Oct. 1, 2000, through Sept, 30, 2004

Emeritus Titles

· Dale F. Bertsch, professor emeritus, Knowlton School of Architecture, effective July 1, 2000

· Charles F. Kielkopf, professor emeritus, Department of Philosophy, effective July 1, 2000

· John A. Lott, professor emeritus, Department of Pathology, effective July 1, 2000

· Earl F. Murphy, professor emeritus, College of Law, effective June 1, 2000

· Kent P. Schwirian, professor emeritus, Department of Sociology, effective July 1, 2000

· Richard R. Martin, associate professor emeritus, Ohio State University Extension, effective July 1, 2000

· Thomas W. Foster, assistant professor emeritus, Department of Sociology (Mansfield Campus), effective July 1, 2000

Resolutions in Memoriam

· Milton Ain, associate professor emeritus in the College of Social Work, died May 1, 2000

· Richard J. First, associate professor emeritus in the College of Social Work, died April 10, 2000

· Philip C. Keenan, professor emeritus in the Department of Astronomy, died April 20, 2000

· K. Narahari Rao, professor emeritus in the Department of Physics, died May 5, 2000

· Leo F. Schwerin, associate director emeritus of the Ohio State University Research Foundation, died May 17, 2000

· Robert A. Titus, associate professor emeritus in the School of Music, died April 13, 2000

The board also approved academic promotions, tenure and leaves of absence for the new academic year.

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