Trustees hear report on transportation and parking master plan

The Board of Trustees heard a progress report on the University's five-year master Transportation and Parking Plan at their meeting May 7 on the Columbus campus.

Trustees heard about plans to move to Phase Two of the plan, which includes increasing parking permit fees to fund bus replacement, medical center garage rehabilitation and construction of parking on north campus.

Sarah Blouch, director of Transportation and Parking Services, told trustees Phase Two allows for the purchase of buses and shelters and establishes a bus replacement reserve fund.

Blouch reported that repairs are required to reverse decay in the north and south medical garages. She also said the University should proceed with plans to build a 2,000-space parking garage on north campus to meet demand caused in part by the stadium expansion, Lane Avenue widening, and anticipated effects on parking when Larkins Hall renovations and Physical Sciences Building construction are in progress.

"The Tuttle Park Place garage will open in June with 950 spaces, and will alleviate some of the unmet demand," Blouch said. "However, other upcoming construction will result in the loss of more spaces, which will further exacerbate already tight parking conditions on north campus."

According to the Phase One progress report, ridership is up almost 65 percent on the Campus Area Bus Service this fiscal year over last, and eight routes were added to expand coverage.

The total cost of Phase One reached $2.8 million, with funding provided by cash reserves, ongoing net income and revenue from parking fee increases, Blouch said.

For fiscal year 1999-2000, the plan calls for parking permit fee increases of $4.75 per month (to $28.75) for an A permit, $2.50 per month (to $15) for a B permit, and $1.75 per month (to $10) for a C student permit.

Students would pay $120 a year to park in the central campus area, but only $30 a year to park in the remote lots on west campus and take a bus to the central campus. Rates for the west campus lots for students, faculty and staff will be fixed at 25 percent of the rate for central campus.

The Transportation and Parking Plan recommends that fees for faculty, staff and students continue to increase for the duration of the five-year plan to fully fund all improvements, but trustees will have to approve each hike.

Trustees approved the five-year master plan last June, along with recommendations for parking fee increases.

Hendricks appointed as trustee

After devoting years of service to alumni and fund-raising activities and student career development at Ohio State, Karen Lafferty Hendricks considers membership on the Board of Trustees the "crowing glory of my service to the University."

Gov. Bob Taft recently appointed Hendricks, a Cincinnati-area businesswoman, to the University's Board of Trustees, effective May 14 through May 13, 2008.

Hendricks, a 1971 Ohio State graduate with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, is chair of the board, president and chief executive officer of Baldwin Piano & Organ Co. in Mason, near Cincinnati. She replaces Board of Trustees Chair Ted Celeste, whose term expired May 13.

Hendricks

"This is very meaningful to me. It's one of the greatest honors ever bestowed upon me," said Hendricks, a Shelby native. "I'm indebted to Ohio State for preparing me for such a stimulating professional life. When I was a student there, I just blossomed. The whole world opened up for me, and being in that intellectual environment set me on a course that really was life-changing for me."

Hendricks was one of few women studying engineering in the late 1960s, and she has been a trailblazer ever since in both engineering and business. Before joining Baldwin, the largest domestic manufacturer of keyboard musical instruments, in 1994, Hendricks was executive vice president and general manager of the skin care division of The Dial Corp.

She was employed from 1971 to 1992 by Procter & Gamble Co. in Cincinnati, where she was instrumental in the development of several personal care products.

A member of the Max M. Fisher College of Business Advisory Council, Hendricks has been an active alumna and a supporter of fund raising at OSU. She was a member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors from 1983-85 and served for six years as alumni representative to the Ohio State Research Foundation.

Hendricks also was on the executive committee of the Presidents Club from 1990-1993, and is a volunteer leader for the Affirm Thy Friendship fund-raising campaign.

SUNY provost named president of OSU-Newark

The trustees of both Ohio State and Central Ohio Technical College have endorsed the nomination of Anne Cairns Federlein for the newly created position of president of the Newark campus.

Federlein's nomination was approved by Ohio State's trustees at their May 7 meeting. Federlein, currently provost at the Oneonta campus of the State University of New York (SUNY), will replace Rafael Cortada, who is retiring as dean and director of Ohio State-Newark and president of COTC.

Cortada will remain at Ohio State-Newark as a faculty member in history and education. Federlein's appointment takes effect July 1.

Federlein

"Dr. Federlein comes to us with an extraordinary background in higher education, community outreach and business," President Kirwan said. "Her wide-ranging experience and proven dedication should serve the Newark campus and its constituents very well.

"I look forward to working with her to continue the marvelous cooperative effort between OSU-Newark and COTC, and to build on the community involvement programs already in place."

OSU-Newark and COTC have a relationship unlike any other in the state. The two institutions both serve Licking, Knox and Coshocton counties and share the same top administrator as well as a 176-acre campus, but are separate entities with distinct missions.

They share a library, some laboratories, and other facilities but have separate governance structures, faculties, curricula and degree programs. COTC is a state- supported two-year technical college focused on associate degrees and is governed by its own board of trustees.

Under a new administrative structure, Federlein's title will be president of the Newark campus. The current OSU-Newark associate dean, Paul Panek, will fill the new position of academic dean at OSU-Newark.

As president, Federlein will be responsible for the overall development of the Newark campus as a community resource -- including developing partnerships with local business and community groups, fund raising, and coordinating the two institutions to insure complementary rather than competitive programming.

She will be the primary link between the campus and the Ohio Board of Regents and the OSU- Newark Board of Trustees. She will be responsible to the president and provost of Ohio State, the University's Board of Trustees and the COTC board of trustees.

As academic dean, Panek will be responsible for the day-to-day coordination of academic affairs, including administering instruction; hiring and reviewing staff; making salary recommendations for faculty; supervising advising, admissions and academic support programs; and preparing annual academic reports and budgets.

Federlein has a diverse background in education and business. She has been at SUNY-Oneonta since 1993 and vice president for academic affairs and provost there since 1995.

A professor of education, she also was dean of the Division of Behavioral and Applied Science and the first director of the Center for Social Responsibility and Community, which focused on involving students in service learning and volunteer activities.

At Oneonta, she also took a lead in technology initiatives, such as a hardware and software support center and distance learning.

From 1989 to 1993, Federlein was a professor of education at the University of Northern Iowa and the first director of the Regents Center for Early Developmental Education, a statewide, multiuniversity center to research and develop early childhood educational programs for homeless and other at-risk populations.

She earned her bachelor's degree in English from the University of Detroit, her master's in early childhood education from Oakland University, and her doctorate in curriculum and instruction from the University of Michigan.

Federlein has authored three books on preschool education and is currently working on another.