August 25, 2017 Meeting, Board of Trustees
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August 25, 2017 meeting, Board of Trustees THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY-SECOND MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Columbus, Ohio, August 24-25, 2017 The Board of Trustees met on Thursday, August 24 and Friday, August 25, 2017 at Longaberger Alumni House, Columbus, Ohio, pursuant to adjournment. ** ** ** Minutes of the last meeting were approved. 63 August 25, 2017 meeting, Board of Trustees The chairman, Mr. Shumate, called the meeting of the Board of Trustees to order on Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 3:36pm. Present: Chairman Alex Shumate, Janet B. Reid, William G. Jurgensen, Jeffrey Wadsworth, Clark C. Kellogg, Timothy P. Smucker, Cheryl L. Krueger, Michael J. Gasser, Brent R. Porteus, Erin P. Hoeflinger, Alex R. Fischer, Abigail S. Wexner, Hiroyuki Fujita, Alan A. Stockmeister, John W. Zeiger, Lydia A. Lancaster, H. Jordan Moseley, Alan VanderMolen, and James D. Klingbeil. Mr. Shumate: Good afternoon. I would like to convene board meeting. Will the Secretary please note the attendance? Dr. Thompson: A quorum is present, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Shumate: I move that the Board recess into Executive Session to consider business sensitive trade secret and research matters required to be kept confidential by Federal and State statutes, to consult with legal counsel regarding pending or imminent litigation, and to discuss personnel matters regarding the employment, appointment, compensation, discipline and dismissal of public officials. Upon the motion of Mr. Shumate, seconded by Ms. Krueger, the Board of Trustees adopted the foregoing motion by unanimous roll call vote, cast by trustees Mr. Shumate, Dr. Reid, Mr. Jurgensen, Dr. Wadsworth, Mr. Kellogg, Mr. Smucker, Ms. Krueger, Mr. Gasser, Mr. Porteus, Mrs. Hoeflinger, Mr. Fischer, Mrs. Wexner, Dr. Fujita, Mr. Stockmeister, Mr. Zeiger, Dr. Lancaster, and Mr. Moseley. Dr. Thompson: Motion carries, Mr. Chairman. *** Mr. Shumate: Good morning everyone. I would like to reconvene our board meeting. Will the secretary please note the attendance? Dr. Thompson: A quorum is present, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Shumate: Thank you. So that we are able to conduct the business of this meeting in an orderly fashion, I would ask that any sound on cell phones and other devices please be turned off at this time and I would ask that all members of the audience observe rules of decorum proper to conducting the business at hand. We are so pleased to be here this morning and to hold our board meeting on the Newark campus. Certainly, our deepest thanks to you, Dean MacDonald, as well as the faculty, the staff, and the students here at the Newark campus. 64 August 25, 2017 meeting, Board of Trustees You have given us such a warm, friendly welcome and we are very much looking forward to our walking tour and the luncheon later today. It will be a pleasure to better know both the people and the places of our OSU Newark campus. Dean, would you like to say a few words? Dr. MacDonald: Sure, I will say just a few. It is a privilege to have you here. We are tremendously excited. We have a wonderful community and a wonderful faculty and staff. We appreciate all of the kind compliments about the campus that I have already received this morning, it’s really to the credit of the community and the faculty and staff and our students that we have such a wonderful place and of course thanks to the support of the university as well. We have students here from over 65 of Ohio’s 88 county’s, and you will get to meet two of them today and I look forward to seeing you at lunch. Mr. Shumate: Well thank you very much, and again thank you to the faculty, staff, and students for welcoming us and allowing us to host our meeting here today. On behalf of the board, let us give them a round of applause. Mr. Moseley, we will begin with a presentation from you. If you would, please introduce our student recognition award recipients. *** STUDENT RECOGNITION AWARDS Mr. Moseley: Thank you Chairman Shumate. I would like to call Emily Adam and Troy Moore up to the table. Emily Adam is a senior, majoring in psychology, from the College of Arts and Sciences, at the Ohio State University Newark campus. She graduated from Grandville High School in 2015. As a first generation college student, she enthusiastically dove head first into her college experience with no hesitation. She went to class, worked in the admissions office, and gave a tour, all on her first day as an undergraduate. Emily is completing her degree in three years, instead of four, and has had an incredible journey along the way. She will be serving on the 2017 Ohio State Newark homecoming court, participating in an internship with the Office of Student Life in the spring, and will be a resident advisor in the new resident halls for the 2017-2018 school year. After graduation, Emily hopes to attend Ohio University in the College Student Personnel program for a degree in higher education. She hopes to get a job in a higher education setting to help students with their college experiences, just as so many people helped her with hers. Please join me in congratulating Emily. Emily if you have a few words. Ms. Adam: I want to say thank you so much to everybody who have given me the opportunity to be here; I apologize, this is very exciting. I have loved every minute of my experience at 65 August 25, 2017 meeting, Board of Trustees Ohio State Newark. I want to say thank you to everybody who has supported me while I have been here. Thank you so much. Mr. Moseley: Thank you for that Emily. Troy Moore is a sophomore, majoring in construction systems management, from the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and plans to become a project manager for a major construction company. Troy graduated from Cincinnati Elder High School, a private school on the west side of Cincinnati in 2016 and started his buckeye journey, here, at the Ohio State Newark campus. In his first year of college, Troy became very active on campus, participating in the Buckeye Generation Learning Community, the Black Heritage dinner, Habitat for Humanity, Fresh Image and work-study. The communities he engaged with helped him through many struggles he faced during his freshman year. Troy attributes much of his growth to the relationships he made here at Newark. Later in life, he would like to become a pastor and entrepreneur to give back to the community from which he came. Troy will dearly miss Newark as he leaves for the Columbus campus, but he appreciates the friends he made and the opportunities he had. Please join me in congratulating Troy. Troy, if you have any words. Mr. Moore: I would like to say that I am very happy to receive this honor and very excited to receive it. I appreciate that the struggles I had my first year were recognized and to receive this award from the faculty and the people here on campus. I really have a very fun time here during my freshman year. Thank you very much. Mr. Moseley: If your guests would like to join, we will take pictures up here with President Drake and Chairman Shumate. Mr. Shumate: Again, on behalf of the board and the university, congratulations. Let’s give them another round of applause. Next, we have the privilege to present the Distinguished University Professor Awards to two recipients who have contributed to the teaching, research, and service missions of the university and have inspired the generation of students like those we just recognized. Dr. McPheron, I give you the floor. *** DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AWARDS Dr. McPheron: Thank you Mr. Chairman. This morning we celebrate the university’s highest honor for a faculty member - the Board of Trustees conferment of the title Distinguished University Professor. Thus far, in the history of the university, this university has conferred this permanent honorific title on only 56 other faculty members. 66 August 25, 2017 meeting, Board of Trustees This program has a rigorous selection process. Each August, the Office of Academic Affairs sends a call for nominations to recommend faculty for this honor. Department chairs, school directors, or faculty awards committees forward their nominations to their college deans. Deans develop a college review process, solicit support letters nationally and internationally, and forward their final nomination decisions to the Office of Academic Affairs. My colleague, Vice Provost for Academic Policy and Faculty Resources Kay Wolf, oversees this program along with other university wide awards that our office sponsors. Selection committees are chosen from among the members of the President and Provost Advisory Committee. Although they are not able to attend today’s meetings and be recognized in person, I thank this year’s committee members: Bharat Bucshon, John Byrd, Joshua Dressler, and Ellen Mosley-Thompson, for their time and commitment to the selection process. The Distinguished University Professor designation includes automatic membership in to the Presidents and Provost Advisory Committee. In addition, the Office of Academic Affairs designates a one time, cash award of $30,000 to each of these distinguished university professors to be used in support of their scholarly work. Members of the board, it’s an honor to recommend two esteemed colleagues for the designation of Distinguished University Professor: Clark Spencer Larsen, Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences from the Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences and David Hal Weinberg, Henry L. Cox Professor of Astronomy, Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and chair of the Department of Astronomy.