03-04-94 Actions of the Board of Trustees on March 4

ACTIONS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ON MARCH 4, 1994

     COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees met
Friday (3/4) at the Fawcett Center for Tomorrow.  Following are
highlights of the meeting.

Johnson Named to Cramblett Chair; Other Personnel Actions

     Trustees appointed Philip R. Johnson, professor of
pediatrics, to the Henry G. Cramblett Chair in Medicine in the
Division of Infectious Diseases, part of the Department of
Pediatrics.  The appointment was made retroactive to Sept. 1,
1991.

     The chair was established in 1988 by the estate of Helen
Simpson Lambacher, Class of 1933, in the memory of her parents,
Lynn and Sarah Simpson and in honor of Henry G. Cramblett, former
dean of the College of Medicine and vice president for health
services.  Income from the endowment supports the work of a
pediatrician who is nationally noted for leading research and
care of patients who have infectious diseases.

     Cramblett, of UPPER ARLINGTON, currently holds the Warner M.
and Lora Kays Pomerene Chair in Medicine.  He also serves as an
associate to the vice president for health services.

     Antoinette J. Eaton of COLUMBUS (43213), professor emeritus
and interim medical director at Children's Hospital, was named
interim chairperson of the Department of Pediatrics through June
30.  Grant Morrow III, previous chairperson, serves as professor
and director of the Division of Biochemical Disorders in the
Department of Pediatrics and medical director of the Children's
Hospital Research Foundation.

     Trustees reappointed James J. Mager of WESTERVILLE as
director of Admissions and Financial Aid and Gary A. Anderson of
WOOSTER as chairperson of the Department of Horticulture
Industries Technology at the Agricultural Technical Institute,
both through June 1998.
     The board waived a resolution requiring administrators to
step down at age 65 to allow the reappointment of James C. Naylor
of WORTHINGTON as chairperson of the Department of Psychology.
Naylor was reappointed to a new term through September 1998.

     Trustees promoted Roger D. Cherry of the Department of
English to associate professor and granted him tenure,
retroactive to Oct. 1.

     Emeritus titles were granted to Thomas J. Burns of COLUMBUS
(43202), professor emeritus of the Department of Accounting and
Management Information Systems, and Frederic Beekman of UPPER
ARLINGTON, director emeritus of the Office of Recreation and
Intramural Sports.  Both actions are effective April 1.

Improvements in financial management under way

     The Board of Trustees heard a progress report on
restructuring the university's management of financial resources.
The restructuring is designed to help the university reach
"financial equilibrium" within the next 18 months.

     Financial equilibrium means: "We will have the resources to
meet existing commitments, including competitive pay increases,
without having to resort to university-wide budget reductions,"
according to William J. Shkurti, vice president for finance.
Shkurti developed the plan jointly with Ed Ray, senior vice
provost, in consultation with the University Senate Fiscal
Committee.

     Efforts have been under way since fiscal year 1992 to
improve the University's financial management system, Shkurti
said.  "This report lays out what we've been doing for the first
time in a systematic way. It tells us what we need to do to reach
financial equilibrium and once there, how we'll make sure we stay
there."

     Many aspects of the plan have been implemented, beginning in
1992.  The report lists those, as well as the projections for
each year through fiscal 1995.  It also lists under "unfinished
business" goals that the plan would shoot for in the future.

     The report cites five elements of resource management:
     =FE Accountability -- Holding decision makers accountable for
living within budgets.
     =FE Information -- Providing for fact-based decision making,
based on an open environment in which information is shared.
     =FE Planning -- Establishing a process to anticipate problems
and to ensure that financial and academic decisions are mutually
supportive and coordinated.
     =FE Incentives -- Developing systems that reward units for
decisions that further university-wide financial and non-
financial goals.
     =FE Flexibility -- Improving the ability to change as
conditions demand, to exploit opportunities and provide a cushion
against unexpected problems.

Five Endowed Funds Created

     The board established five new named endowed funds with
gifts from private donors:
     =FE The Richland Bank Scholarship Endowment Award at the
Marion campus, $44,500;
     =FE The Academy of Pharmacy of Central Ohio Scholarship Fund
for Pharmacy, $30,000;
     =FE The Townsend AZ Endowment Fund to provide scholarships for
the Townsend chapter of Alpha Zeta, a College of Agriculture
fraternity, $16,720;
     =FE The Nathan S. and Lotti J. Fechheimer Library Fund to
provide books for the Main and Agriculture libraries, $15,580;
and
     =FE The Jack A. Culbertson Award Fund for doctoral students in
educational administration, $15,000.

Trustees approve $10 million in research contracts

     The board accepted 145 research contracts with the federal
and state governments, industries and other organizations,
totaling $10,362,825.85.  Singled out for special mention were:
     =FE $500,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to
conduct a five-week summer Arabic Language and Culture National
Institute for U.S. secondary school foreign language and social
studies teachers.  The first two years, the workshops will be
held at Ohio State; the third one will be held in Amman, Jordan.
Principal investigator and co-director is Frederic J. Cadora of
the Department of Near Eastern, Judaic, and Hellenic Languages
and Literatures.  Muhammad M. Alosh is the other co-director.
     =FE $218,761 from the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases to study the mechanisms of acute rejection in
transplantation.  Charles G. Orosz of the Department of Surgery
is the principal investigator.
     =FE $118,000 from the Semiconductor Research Corp. to study
the reliability of integrated circuit packages.  Principal
investigators are Carl H. Popelar, Vernal H. Kenner and June K.
Lee of the Department of Engineering Mechanics.
     =FE $74,000 from the Great Lakes Protection Fund to enhance
the roles of wetlands along the coast of the Great Lakes for
water quality improvement and wildlife protection.  William J.
Mitsch of the School of Natural Resources is the principal
investigator.

Other Actions

     The board also:

     =FE Appointed several doctors to the staff of the Arthur G.
James Cancer Hospital and Research Institute.

     =FE Issued resolutions in memoriam for Frederick W. Dierker,
clinical assistant professor emeritus of the Department of Family
Medicine, who died Jan. 1; Ernest Eugene Good, professor emeritus
in the School of Natural Resources and former chairperson of the
Division of Fisheries and Wildlife Management, who died Jan. 23;
Carl Schlam, professor in the Department of Classics, who died
Dec. 25; and Dorothy D. Scott, professor emeritus in the College
of Human Ecology, former director of the School of Home Economics
and former associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Home
Economics, who died Nov. 14.

     =FE Awarded contracts to three Columbus firms for the second
phase of construction of a storm sewer serving the north and west
central portion of the main campus.  The $1,539,343 total project
cost is being funded with university bond proceeds and is to be
completed by September.  Companies winning contracts were Bale
Contracting, Righter Co. Inc., and Romanoff Electric.

     =FE Received an update on university restructuring by Richard
Sisson, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost.

     =FE Heard a report on campus safety from Ron Michalec, chief
of University Police, and Richard Hollingsworth, dean of student
life.

     =FE Saw a presentation on virtual reality, given by David
Schuller, director of the Cancer Hospital and Don Stredney,
supercomputer graphics research specialist.

                               =20
                                #

Contact:  Tom Spring, University Communications,
(614) 292-8309.


[Submitted by: REIDV  (reidv@ccgate.ucomm.ohio-state.edu)
               
Tue, 08 Mar 1994 14:01:38 -0500 (EST)]
All documents are the responsibility of their originator.