Illuminated by iPads and battery-operated lamps, the Board of Trustees broke through the dark Friday to vote on the consent agenda.
The consent agenda, which included seven resolutions, passed unanimously at the full board meeting, which was partially run in limited lighting due to power outages on campus.
Ohio University has had an academic center in Proctorville, Ohio, for more than 25 years, but it does not own all of the land. The board voted to purchase the 1.114 acres the university doesn't own right now.
The board reviewed several centers and institutions, deciding which programs to be continued, some with a one-year extension. The Quantitative Biology Institute, Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies, Center for International Business Education and Development, Center for Sports Administration, Child Development Center, Academic Advancement Center have all been extended.
The Tropical Disease Institute, WOUB Center for Public Media, Center for Advanced Software Systems Integration, Avionics Engineering Research Center, Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology and the Center for Corrosion in Multi-Phase System Research have all been given a one-year extension.
The board approved funding for a recreation center to be housed on the Zanesville campus. OU will be responsible for a ground lease as well as $1.5 million “in support of a loan to fund a portion of the improvements,” states the resolution. Proceeds from the recreation center are expected to pay back the funds being used to build it.
The board resolved to name the fifth-floor seminar room in Alden Library after Sen. George Voinovich, an OU alum who was recently named a visiting professor.
Voinovich also has collections within the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections in Alden that document his senatorial and gubernatorial careers. OU’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs is named after him as well.
The motion and control laboratory in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology’s Stocker Engineering and Technology Center has also been given a new name, in honor of Parker Hannifin, manufacturer of motion and control technologies, and Jack Myslenski, Parker Hannifin’s former executive vice president. Myslenski is a 1973 graduate of OU. Since then, he has served on the Russ College Board of Visitors and the Department of Engineering Technology and Management Board.
The lab will now be called the Parker Hannifin Motion and Control Laboratory.
The consent agenda also approved the awarding of honorary degrees for Jim Dine, an OU alumnus and internationally renowned artist, and Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak, prime minister of Malaysia, who has encouraged extended collaboration between Alden and the National Library of Malaysia.
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