09-13-94 Back to School, Part I EDITOR'S NOTE: The following pages outline some of the new programs, buildings, services and events for the coming year. Contact persons are listed at the end of each item. You may also call Ruth Gerstner, 292-8424, Tom Spring, 292-8309, or Steve Sterrett, 292-8472, in the Office of University Communications for further information. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PREPARES FOR 1994-95 ACADEMIC YEAR COLUMBUS -- Autumn quarter classes at The Ohio State University begin at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 21, marking the beginning of a new academic year. Although official figures will not be available for several weeks, university officials are anticipating about 49,760 students will be enrolled at the Columbus campus this fall, a slight decrease over last year's 50,623 total. Of these students, about 5,850 will be new, first- quarter freshmen. Another 6,000 students are expected at the four extended campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion and Newark, and at the Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster for a total university enrollment of about 55,000. About 100 of the entering freshmen at Columbus have the distinction of being the first members of the university's Young Scholars Program to become Ohio State students. The Young Scholars program inducted its first members in 1988 as sixth graders. That class graduated from high school last spring and is now entering college, fulfilling the first part of the program's mission to increase the number of young people from low-income families in underrepresented minority groups who attend college and succeed in their university studies. (See separate news release on Young Scholars enclosed with this package.) The freshman class will also include about 450 University Scholars, that is students who graduated in the top 3 percent of their high school classes. This is an increase over last year, when 418 University Scholars enrolled. IN THE COLLEGES The College of the Arts will launch the Emerging Technologies Studio, which will enhance the use of advanced technologies for instructional research and teaching throughout the college. Interactive technologies, CD-ROM, and various multi-media approaches will be employed in the studio located in Sullivant Hall. The college's Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) was chosen as one of 20 university programs worldwide to participate in the New Media Centers Consortium offered through a partnership among Apple Computer, Sony Electronic, Kodak, Prentice-Hall, and other industry leaders. Wayne Carlson, director of ACCAD, 292-3416. Also in the College of the Arts: the Department of Dance has received a $50,000 grant to preserve and document selected works by alumna Lynn Dally and faculty member Victoria Uris though multimedia dance documentation, including use of interactive technology; the School of Music is bringing new music technologies, such as composing on computer, into the classroom; the Department of Art has recently completed a major renovation in the foundry/metals/glass building; the college's partnership with the Martin Luther King Jr. Center received an NEA grant to develop a resource center for instructional materials that illuminate the contributions of people of color to the arts. Associate Dean Karen Bell, 292-2298. The School of Journalism is welcoming James Neff as the new director of the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Reporting. Neff worked for the Cleveland Plain Dealer for nine years as an investigative reporter and columnist. He is the author of Mobbed Up: Jackie Presser's High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia and the FBI, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His upcoming book, Thin Ice, describes the police investigation of a serial rapist. Neff will work on investigative reports with eight Kiplinger Fellows each year and teach reporting classes. Lee Becker, interim director, School of Journalism, 292-6291. The College of Law, the only unit on campus to operate on semesters rather than quarters, has been in session since Aug. 22, and is beginning its second year in newly renovated and expanded quarters. As a consequence of reorienting the building to face the campus rather than High Street, the college's address has changed and is now 55 W. 12th Ave. Since last spring, law students have been able to volunteer for pro-bono work in a new program jointly sponsored by the college's alumni council, the Legal Aid Society of Columbus, and the Columbus Bar Association's "Lawyers for Justice" program. The students gain hands-on legal training by working with attorneys or firms to provide free legal services to citizens who cannot afford to hire an attorney. The college's clinical programs will offer an additional civil law clinic this spring to provide experience in civil litigation. The Street Law Program has been reinstated this year. This program, under the director of Emeritus Associate Dean Jack Henderson, takes law students into the Columbus City Schools to talk to students about basic legal rights. Mary Ellen Jenkins, assistant to the dean, 292-5354. The College of Nursing is expanding, remodeling and re- equipping its Computing Resource Center. The college's Center for Nursing Research has also grown and now includes a renovated biochemical laboratory for faculty research into such topics as smoking cessation and pain management. The incoming class of 155 students will be the first to go through a revised curriculum that includes a required clinical experience in the summer after their first year. The clinical coursework will include learning to interview patients, assess health needs, give injections, etc. Further, the college has begun to offer programs of study for graduate and post-master's students who wish to prepare to become nurse practitioners in the areas of adult health and illness or parent-child nursing. Dean Carole Anderson was recently selected president-elect of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and will assume the presidency in 1996 for a two-year term. Sharon Roach, dean's office, 292-0596. The College of Engineering will open the Dreese Laboratory addition at the beginning of autumn quarter and hold a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. 28. The addition, with 115,000 square feet, has facilities to develop new approaches to teaching via interactive computer work stations, as well as an advanced in-building computer communication system. It also will house faculty in computer and information science and electrical engineering. The college will hold its annual Career Day for future engineers and architects on Nov. 12 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Faculty and administrators will be available to answer questions, and there will be tours, a panel discussion with current students and other activities. The college is entering the second year of its Gateway Program, funded by the National Science Foundation, which is an innovative integration of math and science with the fundamentals of engineering and design. Ohio State is one of 10 member institutions of the Gateway Coalition, and is currently piloting the program with 30 freshmen each year. A new math course and a new physics course, both established under Gateway, will be available for the first time this year to all freshmen planning to enter the college's regular curriculum. A new clean room for electronic materials research will open this quarter. It will house equipment obtained through a combined purchase/donation from United Technologies Research Center worth over $1.5 million and is the only facility among Ohio universities for electronic materials research. Vadim I. Utkin, formerly of the Institute of Control Sciences in Moscow, winner of the 1972 Lenin Prize and a pioneer of the sliding mode control technique, will join the college as the Ford Professor of Electro-Mechanical Systems Engineering. A technical communication center will be opened, with both teaching assistants and computer-aided instructional software available to help students with technical writing problems. Associate Dean David Dickinson, 292-8357. The College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (formerly the College of Agriculture) has received one of 12 grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to assist in educating food systems professionals. The initial grant of $133,000 is to be used for an 18-month exploration and identification of future needs in food systems education. Out of this study is to come a modern land grant university philosophy and a plan of action to develop a new generation of academic leaders. Those proposed projects producing truly innovative visions for the future will be eligible for long-term funding from the Kellogg Foundation for implementation. Associate Dean L.H. Newcomb, 292-6891. The Agricultural Technical Institute, located in Wooster, next fall will begin offering a two-year Associate of Science degree which can be used to begin coursework toward a bachelor's degree. ATI students who pursue this degree option can meet a portion of the requirements for a bachelor's degree from Ohio State's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, or apply the coursework toward other bachelor's degrees at Ohio State or other colleges and universities. Liana Huff, ATI, 292-7115 or (216) 262-7634. The College of Biological Sciences is looking forward to moving into the Vernal Riffe Jr. Building this January. This nine-story structure connects the Biological Sciences Building and Parks Hall, the home of the College of Pharmacy, and facilitates interactive efforts between the colleges. The building has been specifically designed to accommodate the specialized equipment required for modern biological and pharmaceutical research. It also houses the combined Biological Sciences/Pharmacy Library, which opened Sept. 12. The Department of Zoology has completely revamped its undergraduate core curriculum, requiring five core courses for zoology majors instead of the former two. For the first time in 10 years, the Department of Biochemistry will offer a graduate level course in enzymology for students in any of the college's departments. Sandi Rutkowski, associate editor, 292-4759. The College of Optometry is currently putting into place a new 14-quarter curriculum to further enhance its classroom and patient care instruction. First-year students are offered the opportunity to participate in the "Adopt A Freshman" program in which they are paired with an optometrist in private practice to get some first-hand experience early in their professional education. Thanks to more than $2 million in private donations over the past two years, the college has had major renovations in its equipment and facilities. Dean Richard Hill, 292-3246. Students in the College of Human Ecology will see changes in Campbell Hall this fall, with construction under way on the Geraldine Schottenstein Wing, which will house the Historic Costume and Textiles Collection. The former courtyard is being enclosed to provide additional classrooms and laboratories, a two-story gallery and faculty and administrative offices. A new option for students pursuing an undergraduate major in textiles and clothing is Product Development and Evaluation. This integrates and strengthens knowledge of both textiles and apparel, two previously separate areas in industry that are increasingly being brought together. The option incorporates study of quality assurance and computer-aided design. The college has been involved in a year-long celebration of the United Nations International Year of the Family. Fall quarter activities include offering two courses on international families; a panel discussion on Oct. 12 on eating patterns in Taiwan, Korea, India and the Philippines; and a variety of seminar presentations throughout the fall. To conclude, the college will celebrate holidays around the world. Dean Jerelyn Schultz, 292-8119. The College of Social Work has selected its second class of Master of Social Work students at the Mansfield campus. Approximately 50 students will begin the program this autumn. It allows them to earn a M.S.W. degree at Mansfield in three years through part-time study. Rodger Smith, assistant director, OSU-Mansfield, (419) 755-4011. [Submitted by: REIDV (reidv@ccgate.ucomm.ohio-state.edu) Wed, 14 Sep 1994 08:42:26 -0500 (EST)] All documents are the responsibility of their originator.