TRUSTEES APPROVE AGREEMENT WITH HARDING HOSPITAL, CONDUCT 
PERSONNEL MATTERS

	COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees on 
Friday (2/6) approved an affiliation agreement between the 
university and Harding Hospital Inc.  The board also approved 
rules changes for physicians, renamed a department, made several 
appointments and conducted other business.

Board approves affiliation agreement with Harding Hospital

	Trustees authorized The Ohio State University to join forces 
with Harding Hospital Inc. in an affiliation agreement 
consolidating behavioral health services and programs.

	The new organization will integrate and oversee all 
strategic, financial, administrative and marketing matters in 
behavioral health formerly conducted by Ohio State and Harding.

	The agreement will result in no visible changes for 
patients, physicians, staff or health care providers at either 
facility at this time.

	The affiliation agreement is designed to enhance the 
availability and efficiency of the services, and will allow for a 
more comprehensive offering of behavioral health services to the 
community.

Bylaws of the medical staff amended

	Trustees approved amendments to the medical staff bylaws 
that will modify requirements for medical staff appointments.  
The changes will provide appointments without the need for 
faculty status to fulfill the teaching and service missions of 
the hospitals.  The bylaws will allow community physicians who do 
not desire Ohio State faculty appointments to participate in the 
clinical activities at University Hospitals.

	The goal of the amendments is to balance the needs of the 
hospitals for a broad provider base with the needs of specialty 
faculty physicians who provide the majority of clinical, teaching 
and research within University Hospitals.

	Though some requirements are waived, the bylaws do call for 
community affiliate physician applicants to identify categories 
of diagnosis, estimate the extent of patient activity and list 
service areas they will utilize in the hospitals. 

	The bylaws also include some technical amendments reflecting 
recognition of new clinical divisions within existing clinical 
departments.  The new medical rules bringing the bylaws into 
compliance with recent accreditation standard changes also are 
included in the amendments.

Department renamed

	The board approved changing the name of the Department of 
Agricultural Education to the Department of Human and Community 
Resource Development.  The department is housed in the College of 
Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

	The renaming results from a restructuring of the college in 
1994, when faculty in the Department of Agricultural Education 
were combined with rural sociology faculty previously housed in 
the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.

	The new department addresses two priorities of the college: 
assessing social and economic changes, and developing human 
resources.  The newly named department offers several majors for 
undergraduate and graduate students, including agricultural 
education, agricultural communication and rural sociology.

	Appointments

	Trustees appointed Christopher M. Culley, assistant attorney 
general and chief of the Education Section of the Ohio Attorney 
General’s office, as deputy general counsel in the Office of 
Legal Affairs, effective Feb. 16.  The deputy general counsel, 
jointly chosen by the university and the attorney general, has 
the primary responsibility of supervising litigation and will 
work closely with the Education Section of the Ohio Attorney 
General’s Office.  

	Culley has been an assistant attorney general since 1984.  
As the Education Section’s first chief, he has been responsible 
for all legal matters involving Ohio’s public primary, secondary, 
post-secondary and higher education clients, including the Ohio 
Department of Education and the Ohio Board of Regents.  He also 
has coordinated legal services being provided by 31 university 
and college attorneys on-site at campuses across the state.

	He earned his bachelor’s degree at The Ohio State University 
in 1976 and holds a law degree from the University of Dayton 
School of Law.  Culley replaces John Biancamano, who was 
appointed deputy general counsel in 1991.  Biancamano will remain 
on the university’s Legal Affairs staff.

	Trustees appointed Richard Widdows of WORTHINGTON as chair 
of the Department of Consumer and Textile Sciences, through June 
30, 2002.  Widdows, who joined the faculty Jan. 1, previously 
served as the Putman and Hayes Distinguished Professor at the 
University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1996-97, and from 
1983 to 1996, served on the faculty in the Department of Consumer 
Sciences and Retailing at Purdue University.  He has served as a 
consultant to Ford, General Foods, GTE, NEC, Dow and British 
Telecom, among others. His area of expertise is consumer, 
clothing and textile economics.

	Richard E. Petty of UPPER ARLINGTON was appointed chair of 
the Department of Psychology, through June 30, 2002.  Petty 
received his Ph.D. in social psychology from Ohio State in 1977.  
He taught at the University of Missouri from 1977 to 1987 and 
served for a year as a visiting fellow at Yale University before 
returning to Ohio State in 1987 as professor of psychology.  
Petty directed Ohio State’s social psychology doctoral program 
from 1987 to 1994.  Petty received the Distinguished Scholar 
Award from Ohio State in 1995.  His research focuses broadly on 
the situational and individual difference factors responsible for 
changes in beliefs, attitudes and behaviors.

	Robert A. Bornstein of WORTHINGTON was appointed interim 
chair of the Department of Psychiatry, through June 30.  A 
professor in the department, Bornstein’s research interests 
include neuropsychological deficits associated with head injury, 
subarachnoid hemorrhage and systemic disease; memory deficity and 
its assessment in clinical populations; and HIV infection.

Reappointments

	The board reappointed:

	-- Gregory H. Williams as dean of the College of Law, 
effective July 1, 1998 through June 30, 2003.

	-- Frank T. Coulson as director of the Center for 
Epigraphical Studies, through Sept. 30.

	-- Thomas L. Payne of WOOSTER as director of the Ohio 
Agricultural Research and Development Center, through Dec. 31, 
2001.

	-- Albert J. Davis of UPPER ARLINGTON as chair of the 
Department of Human Development and Family Science, through June 
30.

	-- Robert E. Burnkrant of UPPER ARLINGTON as chair of the 
Department of Marketing, through Sept. 30, 2002.

Emeritus titles granted

	Trustees granted emeritus titles retroactive to Jan. 1 
unless otherwise noted to:

     -- Lawrence G. Anderson of JEFFERSON, associate professor 
emeritus, Ohio State University Extension.

	-- Hazel Benson of HILLIARD, associate professor, University 
Libraries, effective Feb. 1.

	-- Daniel J. Martin, associate professor-clinical emeritus 
of psychiatry.

	-- Saragail Lynch of COLUMBUS (43214), instructor emeritus, 
University Libraries.



Resolutions in memoriam

	Trustees adopted resolutions in memoriam for:

	-- Lloyd C. Ferguson, professor emeritus in the Department 
of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, who died May 12, 1996.

	-- J. Marshall Hanna, professor emeritus in the College of 
Education.

	-- F. Glenn Haskins, instructor emeritus in the Ohio State 
University Extension, who died Nov. 29.

	-- Marjorie Pierson McMillin, associate professor emeritus 
in the College of Social Work, who died Dec. 30.

	-- Albert F. Prebus, professor emeritus in the Department of 
Physics, who died Dec. 16.

	-- O. Lee Rigsby, dean emeritus in the College of the Arts 
and professor emeritus in the School of Music, who died Nov. 8.

	-- Richard C. Snyder, professor emeritus in the School of 
Educational Policy and Leadership, who died Dec. 9.

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