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Ohio University presidential chief of staff Becky Watts has announced she is taking a position with the Ohio Board of Regents and will be leaving OU at the end of May.
In a letter to faculty and staff, OU President Roderick McDavis states that Watts will begin her new role as associate vice chancellor of P-20 Initiatives with the board on June 4.
Serving as McDavis’ chief of staff and special assistant, Watts often is quoted as OU’s chief spokesperson in the news media.
Read more from The Athens NEWS or from The Post.
Related topics: Ohio University | OU Administration
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 Trustees to students: Real sorry, but we’ve got to hike your tuition
Before voting on a 3.5 percent tuition and general-fee hike last week, members of the Ohio University Board of Trustees apologized profusely to a small group of students who came out to protest the increase.
In the end, however, the Trustees did vote to approve the hike, as well as increases in room and board rates, which will take the yearly cost of tuition above $10,000, and make attending OU for a full-time student who lives and eats on campus costing over $20,000.
“I want you to know that we see you – we do see you,” Trustee Sandra J. Anderson said during a board meeting Friday, prior to the vote to approve the increase. “Once upon a time, many of us sat where you (now) sit… We want you to know that we do not take this lightly.”
Read more from The Athens NEWS or from The Athens Messenger (subscription required), The Post, WOUB, The Columbus Dispatch, NewsChannel5, or WKYC. | Photo credit: Dustin Franz, The Athens NEWS.
RELATED:
- EARLIER: OU trustees question administration on proposed increase (The Athens Messenger, subscription required)
- With increase, OU rises in state-school cost list (The Post); OU tuition 96th costliest of 663 public 4-year colleges: Placing in top 15 percent most expensive institutions puts latest tuition hike in perspective (The Athens NEWS)
- OU faculty, staff to receive salary increases (The Post); Board of Trustees appoints new leadership amid tuition increase (The Post)
We could ask what everyone thinks about the tuition hike, but, um, duh. Things could be worse, though. According to Forbes, the University of Florida just dumped their Computer Science department in order to put more money into athletics (that story via nofearbobishere on r/athensohio).
Related topics: Ohio University | Tuition | OU Administration
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 Ohio University Roundup (part 1) for April 5, 2012
- Ohio Athletics:
- ABOVE: Former Kent, TCU coach aims to continue recent success (The Athens NEWS)
- Coach to get $425,000 annual salary (The Post)
- OU Faculty Senate president unhappy with coach’s salary (WOUB)
- OU’s misplaced priorities (/r/athensohio, lots of discussion going on over there)
- OU, OSU announce partnership, $35 million venture capital fund (The Post | WOUB)
- State bill allocates $18.6M to Ohio University’s Athens campus (The Athens Messenger, subscription required); RELATED: OU pleased with its share of state’s capital improvements bill (The Athens NEWS)
- Alumni relations VP transfers to Arkansas (The Post | WOUB)
- Student Senate: OU admins breakdown divvying of tuition increase (The Post)
- Ohio won’t follow Ohio State’s lead in charging additional fees for online courses (The Post)
- ICYMI, Book takes readers into 19th-century Ridges asylum (The Athens NEWS)
Photo credit: Joel Bissell, The Athens NEWS.
NOTE: We’re going to stick all of the event-based OU stories in a second roundup because there’s a lot of them and this post is already plenty long.
Related topics: Ohio University | Ohio State University | Ohio Athletics | OU Administration | Tuition | The Ridges
Starting next week, this blog will drop most of the “Roundup” posts. Instead, we’ll post stories that we think are of the most interest to our Tumblr followers. This will result in fewer posts per day, but we hope the average post will be more valuable. As always, you’re welcome to submit content yourself any time!
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Ohio University Roundup for March 8, 2012
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 Ohio University Roundup for February 21, 2012
- ABOVE: Athens’ Police Academy: Training course cinches advantage for OU cadets (The Post)
- Housing head moving into new VP position (The Post)
- Faculty Senate: Faculty OK waiving credit requirement for those just short (The Post)
- Graduate Student Senate: Members approve funds for festival’s festive refreshments (The Post); RELATED: GSS to meet with United Healthcare (The New Political)
- Campus Care seeing fewer flu cases even as season end nears (The Post)
- University Events:
- Sorority-sponsored dance competition to benefit diabetes research, education (The Post)
- Fem-rocker takes ‘bitch’ back for women (The Post)
- OU culture showcase examines economic stability (WOUB)
- Author kisses and tells on art of kissing (The Post)
Photo credit: Matt Hatcher, The Post.
Related topics: Ohio University | OU Administration | Healthcare | Campus Care (new tag, still working on switching over all the posts about Hudson)
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