10-2-98

TRUSTEES HEAR REPORTS ON CLEVELAND CLINIC RELATIONSHIP, 
ARTICULATION PROCESS, FARM SCIENCE REVIEW

	CLEVELAND -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees, 
meeting at the Cleveland Clinic on Friday (10/2), heard reports on 
the university’s relationship with the Cleveland institution and on 
Ohio State’s articulation agreements with community colleges.  The 
board also conducted other business.
Board hears report on partnership with Cleveland Clinic

	Ohio State has had a partnership with the Cleveland Clinic 
Foundation (CCF) for eight years.  The partnership, which was 
reaffirmed in 1996, extends both institutions’ missions in teaching 
and research.  Kathryn Clausen, associate dean for medical education 
at Ohio State, and Jeff Hutzler, chair of medical student education 
at CCF, reported to the board about the medical education program’s 
design.  Approximately 50 second-, third- and fourth-year Ohio State 
medical students annually conduct their studies at the Cleveland 
institution.  Through the partnership, more than 200 Cleveland Clinic 
staff members hold Ohio State appointments.

	Bradford Stokes of Ohio State and Fredrick Cornhill of the 
Cleveland Clinic described research programs that exist between Ohio 
State and CCF.  Cornhill, chair of the Lerner Research Institute and 
chair of biomedical engineering, emphasized the ties in graduate 
biomedical engineering relationships that have been successful 
between the colleges of Engineering and Medicine and CCF over the 
last decade.  Stokes, associate dean for research in the College of 
Medicine and Public Health, described the concept of a “bridge” 
department between Engineering and Medicine and Public Health at Ohio 
State that will further facilitate this relationship.  The concept of 
a newly developed initiative in the neurosciences also was examined.

	Bernadine Healy, dean of Ohio State’s College of Medicine and 
Public Health, told trustees the two institutions plan to expand the 
successful strategic alliance.	

Garland discusses articulation agreements

	Martha Garland, vice provost for undergraduate studies, told 
trustees that transfers to Ohio State from three Cleveland-area 
community colleges are performing in the classroom at a rate nearly 
equal to the rest of the student body.

	Ohio State has articulation and transfer admission agreements 
with seven two-year community colleges in Ohio, including Lorain 
Community College, Lakeland Community College and Cuyahoga Community 
College in northeast Ohio.  Ohio State President William E. Kirwan 
signed an agreement with the seventh community college -- Owens 
Community College in Toledo -- on Wednesday.

	The articulation agreements include Ohio State transfer credit 
equivalencies for community college courses and a memorandum of 
understanding signed by presidents of both Ohio State and the 
community college.

	The first-year retention rate -- the number of students 
returning for their second year at Ohio State in the fall of 1997 -- 
was 90 percent for transfers from Lorain Community College, 80 
percent for Cuyahoga Community College transfers, and 66 percent for 
students from Lakeland.  Ohio State’s freshman retention rate was 79 
percent last year.

	Garland said the six-year graduation rates for transfers from 
the three community colleges also are nearly equivalent to those of 
students who enter Ohio State as freshmen. Ohio State’s overall six-
year graduation rate is 57 percent.

	Of the 2,350 entering transfer students on Ohio State’s Columbus 
campus in the fall of 1997, 900 came from 14 state-assisted community 
colleges.  A total of 198 students came from Cuyahoga (89), Lorain 
(57) and Lakeland (52) community colleges.  The most community 
college transfers -- 488 -- came from Columbus State.

	The State Legislature and Ohio Board of Regents adopted a 
statewide policy in 1990 encouraging state-assisted universities to 
establish articulation and transfer agreements with community 
colleges.

	Garland also told the trustees about a series of Ohio State 
initiatives designed to improve services to transfer students, 
focusing on effective evaluation of their previous work and on 
academic advising.
 
Farm Science Review report

	Trustee Daniel M. Slane, chair of the board’s agricultural 
affairs committee, delivered a report to the board about Ohio State’s 
1998 Farm Science Review.  An estimated 130,410 visitors attended the 
event, which ran from Sept. 22-24 at the Molly Caren Agricultural 
Center near London.  Almost 600 exhibitors participated in the 
Review.  This year’s Review saw a number of firsts; among them, a 
nationally televised food safety satellite conference was downlinked 
at more than 100 sites, and ground-breaking took place on a new 
Natural Resources Interpretive Center that should open before the 
next Review.  The 1999 Farm Science Review will take place Sept. 21-
23.

Miscellaneous business

	In other business, trustees:

	-- Presented a student recognition award to Vijay Nath of UPPER 
ARLINGTON.  Nath is a fourth-year medical student studying internal 
medicine.  He was honored for his work on the Interprofessional 
Quality of University Experience (I-QUE) Report, a survey of the 
professional student experience at Ohio State.  Nath also served as 
the co-author of the student section of the LCME Accreditation 
Report, a self-study for medical school re-accreditation conducted 
every seven years.  He earned his bachelor’s degree in cellular and 
molecular biology from the University of Michigan.   

	-- Approved 175 contracts totaling $11.1 million for research 
projects funded in August.

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Contact: Bernadine Healy, College of Medicine and Public Health, 
	 (614) 292-1200
	 Martha Garland, Academic Affairs, (614) 292-5881