An Ohio University administrator identified differing timelines in strategic university documents as the reason for the disconnect Graduate Student Senate identified between Vision Ohio and the Five-Year Academic Action Plan.
Executive Vice President and Provost Kathy Krendl said the writers of the academic plan based their work off a document developed by the Vision Ohio Executive Steering Committee, which was only a one-year projection of goals for the university.
I tried to take what they recommended for one year and extended it out over five
Krendl said at last night's Graduate Student Senate meeting.
Krendl was one of five university administrators who attended the senate meeting to answer questions about the academic plan. Other officials present included Interim Vice President For Research James Rankin, Director Of Athletics Kirby Hocutt, Chief Information Officer Brice Bible, and Executive Director of Communications and Marketing Joe Brennan.
Senators continued to voice concerns about insufficient funds invested in graduate education.
Drew Pusateri, senator for the College of Education, complained that graduate education and research accounts for only 3 percent of the total reallocated funds in the academic plan.
It seems like an extraordinarily disproportionate amount of funding to put in graduate student education Pusateri said.
Another aspect of the plan that is a sore point for senators and their constituents is the amount of funding the plan proposes to invest in athletics.
The academic plan proposes about $30 million in total reallocations. It recommends reallocating $775,000 to improving athletics and about $3 million to enhanced support investment in graduate and professional students and programs.
Paul Isherwood, president of the History Graduate Student Association, urged Krendl and the university to invest more heavily in graduate education.- Isherwood said.
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