When Ohio University President Duane Nellis announced his resignation in early May, the university publicly declared that an interim president would be named in the coming days and a national search would be launched to unearth the institutionâs 22nd president â business as usual under such circumstances.
But neither happened.
In what came as a shock to much of the university community, the Board of Trustees last Thursday emerged from an hours long executive session and bestowed Nellisâ successor, former College of Business Dean Hugh Sherman, with the title of president for a two-year term, rather than naming him an interim as is typically done between more permanent changes in leadership while a search committee is initiated to find the next full-time executive.
Editorâs note: This is a letter addresses to the Ohio University Board of Trustees, Dean Florenz Plassman and Provost Elizabeth Sayers. The NEWS received a copy of the letter.
We are a group of Ohio University alumni writing to express our urgent concerns about the proposed budget cuts and restructuring that essentially defund the Center for Law, Justice & Culture (CLJC).
As proud OU graduates, we are exasperated at the news that yet another essential university unit is facing these cuts from an administration that does not seem to understand how central these departments and units are to the Bobcat experience. We echo the concerns raised by current students, faculty, individual alumni, and organizations like ACLU Ohio. Each and every one of us found a home with the students, faculty, and community members engaged with the critical study of law, society, and politics at the CLJC. Since graduating, the concepts learned, connections made, and opportunities pursued through the CL
Newly named OHIO Career Ready Campus helps women better their lives with education Published: February 3, 2021 Author: Kim Barlag Kim Barlag In the initial Aspire class in November 2018, Aspire instructors Scott Hatfield and Sally Young help three dedicated women work towards their GED.
Access to education comes easier to some more than others, but the inspiring stories of four women from Southeast Ohio remind us how education is the key to growth, confidence, and success, and that we must never take it for granted.
These women, Brenda, Maria, Lisa and Alicia (whose full names cannot be shared) have with the combination of their own courage and grit, and resources from Ohio University overcome hardship, poverty, abuse, and addiction to further their education and better themselves and their families.