LAW PROFESSOR ROGERS NAMED VICE PROVOST

   COLUMBUS -- Law professor and former College of Law associate dean Nancy Hardin Rogers has been nominated to the position of vice provost for academic administration in the Office of Academic Affairs at The Ohio State University. The appointment will take effect July 1 pending Board of Trustees approval at its July meeting.

   Rogers, of UPPER ARLINGTON, will be the primary liaison between the Office of Academic Affairs and the vice presidents for research, for agricultural administration and for health sciences, as well as the director of university libraries. Other duties include, but are not limited to, oversight of international programs. The appointment completes the restructuring of the Office of Academic Affairs that began last fall in response to a larger restructuring of the university's central administration.

   "We are very fortunate to have Nancy Rogers join our staff in this role," said Edward J. Ray, executive vice president and provost. "Nancy is a renowned leader in her field, and ably carried administrative duties in the College of Law for five years. She is highly respected across campus and has the enthusiastic support of those who will be working with her in her new position."

   Rogers is the Joseph S. Platt-Porter, Wright, Morris and Arthur Professor of Law, and has been instrumental in shaping the College of Law's nationally renowned alternative dispute resolution program; she has been faculty coordinator for the program since 1998. She served as the college's associate dean for academic affairs from 1992-1997, and now teaches mediation issues, dispute systems design, advanced studies in dispute resolution, and facilitation. Rogers will retain her faculty appointment in the College of Law.

   Rogers first taught at Ohio State in 1975 as a visiting assistant professor, and subsequently served first as an assistant and then as an adjunct professor on a part-time basis during her children's pre-school years. She re-joined the faculty as an assistant professor in the fall of 1983. The College of Law Alumni Association named her the 1996 Outstanding Professor in the college.

   A former clerk for Judge Thomas D. Lambros of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, Rogers is the co-author of Dispute Resolution: Negotiation, Mediation, and Other Processes. She also co-authored two award-winning books on mediation and the law. In 1984, Rogers helped Ohio State law students form a second law review, the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, for which she serves as a faculty adviser.

   Rogers was appointed by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1993 to the board of directors of the Legal Services Corp., a Washington, D.C.-based organization that provides federal funding to legal-aid programs throughout the country. Most recently, Rogers received the 1998 Ritter Award from the Ohio State Bar Foundation for Outstanding Contributions to the Administration of Justice. She also has been appointed to the Ohio delegation of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Law.

   At Ohio State, Rogers has served on all regular college committees and several special committees, including a dean's search panel. She chaired the Self-Study Committee for the American Bar Association re-accreditation visit. She also co- chaired the Academic Enrichment Grant Advisory Committee this year and has served on the Distinguished Scholar Selection Committee.

   Rogers earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas and her Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School.

Contact:
Edward Ray, Academic Affairs, (614) 292-5881
Nancy Rogers, Law, (614) 292-4223