August 31, 2012 Meeting, Board of Trustees 1 the OHIO STATE

August 31, 2012 meeting, Board of Trustees THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIFTH MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Columbus, Ohio, August 29, 30 & 31, 2012 The Board of Trustees met Wednesday, August 29, at Arden Shisler Center, Wooster, Ohio; and Thursday, August 30, and Friday, August 31, 2012, at Longaberger Alumni House, Columbus, Ohio, pursuant to adjournment. ** ** ** Minutes of the last meeting were approved. 1 August 31, 2012 meeting, Board of Trustees The Chairman, Mr. Schottenstein, called the meeting of the Board of Trustees to order on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 2:36 p.m. Present: Robert H. Schottenstein, Chairman, Brian K. Hicks, John C. Fisher, Alan W. Brass, Ronald A. Ratner, Algenon L. Marbley, Linda S. Kass, William G. Jurgensen, Jeffrey Wadsworth, Clark C. Kellogg, Timothy P. Smucker, Alex Shumate, Cheryl L. Krueger, G. Gilbert Cloyd, Corbett A. Price, Evann K. Heidersbach and Benjamin T. Reinke. Good afternoon, everyone. I would like to officially convene the meeting of The Ohio State University Board of Trustees and ask the Secretary to note the attendance. Dr. Horn: A quorum is present, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Schottenstein: So that we are able to conduct the business of the meeting in an orderly fashion, we would ask that the ringers on cell phones and other communication devices be turned off at this time. Before we get started with the official agenda items, I would just like to say a few things. One is what an extraordinary pleasure and privilege it has been for all of us to come up here to Wooster today. I found it interesting that Ohio State has had a continuous presence right here on this very spot for 120 years. For some of us, like me, it is the first time I have been here—better late than never, and better because of some of the really terrific stuff that has been happening here day in and day out. We are going to hear from Dean Moser in a few minutes, but I want to first of all thank him, and also Steve Slack and Rich Linton – I don’t know if Rich is still here – but Rich is probably off to North Carolina State. Rich presented to us earlier as a part of our official welcome before making certain we were very, very well fed. I also want to thank Mayor Brenneman and the County Commissioners from Wayne County as well as the members of the Ohio General Assembly, several of whom have been with us all morning. We really appreciate, not just your being here, but your intense and continuous and sustained interest in Ohio State and what happens up here at Wooster. Finally, I would be remiss if I didn’t thank Jack Fisher publicly. I think all of us have thanked him privately, but I want to thank him publicly. In those seven o’clock meetings Jack has been having for the last couple of years, he has been talking about and thinking about how important it would be for us to get out of our own Columbus campus and look at what we do at some of our facilities, particularly this one up here at Wooster. Jack, we thank you, not just for the leadership that you provided to the Board, but also for helping to initiate this trip. It is something that will make a big difference and has already, so thank you very much. I guess it does remind me of one other thing that I thought I would share publicly. On the way up here in the bus, Alex Shumate mentioned—and we have talked about this at our Board meetings—how important it is to get out of Columbus, not because we don’t like Columbus – we love Columbus –but because when you leave your familiar surroundings, you tend to learn things. We have been talking about the importance of visiting, not just our own facilities 2 August 31, 2012 meeting, Board of Trustees that are outside central Ohio, but also other universities to see what is happening elsewhere. That is something that we will talk about as well, because I think that is a very important comment that we need to be reminded of and being up here underscores the value of that. With that, I would like to call on Dr. Moser to give us an overview of our College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. President Gee: Before we do that, Mr. Chairman, can I just say that this is a day that we are going to have a number of opportunities to celebrate, but Bobby has served this University for 21 years as a dean—the longest serving and most effective dean that I can ever remember. I had the privilege – and I have told this story many times–of appointing Bobby. Then I left and had an unstable employment pattern, but Bobby stayed with us and has built a truly remarkable College and has had an important impact. I think that our legislative colleagues would agree that Bobby, as well as anyone in the state, is able to tell the story of Ohio and Ohio State. So it is wonderful to have Bobby give this presentation, but also it is appropriate for us to recognize him as the Ohio State treasure that he is. Bobby, I just want to publicly acknowledge your leadership and thank you for all that you do. Dean Moser: Thank you very much, Mr. President. Mr. Chairman and President Gee, thank you, and to all of the Board members, thank you for coming up here. We are very proud of our facilities. We are proud of what we do and the people up here, so it is really great to have everyone here for us to show it off to you. I just wish we had more time. I wish we could have gotten you off the bus at every stop to get you into the laboratories and to talk to the scientists and the students that are working here to see what they are doing, why they are doing it, and the difference that they are making, because it is a wonderful place, and we are very pleased to be a part of it. Before I start my comments, I would like to ask Mayor Brenneman to make a comment or two and also to have Ron Amstutz come forward. Mayor Brenneman: I want to take 30 seconds of your time to thank you for coming to Wooster. It is such a pleasure to have met many of you on the bus at the different stops that we made. The value of this facility—this portion of our town—is, to Wooster, invaluable. I couldn’t ask for a better relationship than the one we have with Steve and Bobby and the team here. We work together well, we are striving for many of the same goals, and it is a perfect symbiosis, so thank you very much for taking the time. I left you a letter and a couple gifts from our area. FJ Designs built us a cat’s meow of houses which illustrates a barn in this area so that is part of our town. Wooster Brush—one of our oldest industries in town, which we drove past on the way to the research facility that we walked around in—has been in our town for over 160 years and is right on the south side of our downtown, so they helped us out with some gifts. Please enjoy those and, again, thank you for making the effort to come up and visit. Dean Moser: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. As I said at noon today, there is no better support than what this community gives this campus and we appreciate that very much. Also, I would like to introduce Jeff Griffin with the Chamber of Commerce. 3 August 31, 2012 meeting, Board of Trustees The next person up here is Representative Ron Amstutz. I want all of you to know that it takes a lot of people and leadership to make things happen and this is what Representative Amstutz has given us for many, many years—first in the House, over in the Senate, and back in the House again. The fact that he is chairman of the Finance Committee is not too bad of a place to be, but he has been a true, true supporter all the way through and went to bat for us many times. Ron, I want to thank you personally for that and all the leadership that you provide for us. He tells me that he has a very important announcement that he would like to make. Representative Amstutz: Yes, I look forward to that. Before I get to that, I would like to say that the building we are in is a good example of how collaborative projects work. I don’t know if this was mentioned to the Board, but this facility-this conference center- is a combination of State and private investment. There is a reason the name Shisler is on this building. He was a Farm Bureau leader who gave a big contribution, and we had lunch in the Smucker Room. There were many private partners that made this building successful, and it is an example of why this place, I think, is more successful than the average by a long stretch. It is something we can all be proud of. I thank the Board, too, for taking time to come here to this facility and to understand what we have here.

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