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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Chancellor plans ‘celebration of excellence’ for fall
Eric D. Fingerhut, chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, plans to release a report this fall on the University System of Ohio’s Centers of Excellence.
Ohio’s 14 public colleges and universities have until June 30 to submit reports that identify and establish goals for their centers of excellence. The chancellor and his staff will then work to refine the data so that if can be presented in a Centers of Excellence report.
“It will be in effect an implementation update of our strategic plan,” Fingerhut said on Wednesday, June 17, in a public board of regents meeting at Sinclair Community College.
“I’m really hoping that this fall we will have some sort of true celebration of excellence where we talk about the centers of excellence and release the document,” Fingerhut said.
Centers of excellence is a key strategy of the University System of Ohio’s 10-year “Strategic Plan for Higher Education.” Rather than having the state’s public institutions competing for resources, students and faculty, they are to develop distinctive missions and centers of excellence that are recognized both nationally and internationally.
“In a state with 14 public universities, we need to focus in order to achieve real excellence,” Fingerhut said.
The University of Dayton and Case Western University, Ohio’s top private research institutions, also have asked to become centers of excellence, Fingerhut said.
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