96-02-12 News Advisory: Economic Impact News Conference

                         REMINDER:
NEWS CONFERENCE WEDNESDAY TO RELEASE ECONOMIC IMPACT REPORT

	President E. Gordon Gee will host a news conference at
11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14, to release an updated report on the 
economic impact of The Ohio State University on the state of 
Ohio.  The news conference will be held in the conference room
of the university's Business Technology Center, 1275 Kinnear Road 
(formerly the Simmons mattress factory).  The center is 
illustrative of one of the ways Ohio State works with industry in 
ways that stimulate economic growth.  There will be opportunities
to photograph work at the Business Technology Center after the
news conference.

	Gee will present highlights from a study conducted by
faculty and students of the School of Public Policy and 
Management that shows that Ohio State is returning even more 
economic benefits to the businesses and citizens of Ohio than
it was in 1992, when the first such report was done.

	Several other university officials will also speak and take 
questions, including L. Lee Walker, who directed the project.  
She is director of public management programs in the School of 
Public Policy and Management and a former state budget director.

	Copies of the full report will be distributed at the news 
conference.  It provides considerable detail about how the 
university leverages its state funding to provide benefits to 
Ohio that are many times over the state's investment in the 
university.

	There is plenty of parking space at the Business Technology 
Center, which is located on the south side of Kinnear Road midway 
between North Star and Kenny roads.  Please enter through the 
front door.

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Contact: Ruth Gerstner, University Communications, 292-8424.


[Submitted by: Von Reid-Vargas (ereid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
               
Wed, 14 Feb 1996 10:17:15 -0500]
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