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Third Frontier again may aim at bigger grants Investments could better create, attract jobs By CHUCK SODER csoder@crain.com
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Investments. The commission’s goal is to fund more projects like The Ohio Third Frontier the Cleveland-based Global Commission wants to start Cardiovascular Innovation making big grants again. Center, said Dr. Chagnon, The next annual budget who credited the Cleveland for the Third Frontier proClinic-led center with gram — an initiative designed Chagnon helping launch several health to boost Ohio’s economy care-related startups. through investments in technology The commission has yet to — could include $50 million set approve formally its proposed $236 aside for larger projects designed to million budget for fiscal 2013, which help the state establish itself as a began July 1. However, at the strong player in various technology group’s monthly meeting last week, sectors, said Norm Chagnon, deputy it voted to approve the general See GRANTS Page 10 chief of Ohio’s Office of Technology
Cavs planning large Wi-Fi network rollout at The Q By JOEL HAMMOND jmhammond@crain.com
If you have a smart phone and enjoy watching Cleveland Cavaliers, Cleveland Browns or Cleveland Indians games at those teams’ respective venues, you’ve encountered the problem. Upload a photo to Facebook at a Browns home game? Tweet about the Indians from Progressive Field on Opening Day? Send to Instagram
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a photo of the Cavaliers’ new court at this Tuesday’s home opener against Washington? Good luck! The Cavaliers, though, have a solution on the way. The team soon will announce a Wi-Fi buildout at Quicken Loans Arena as part of what team spokesman Tad Carper calls a larger digital platform upgrade, details of which still are being ironed out. See WI-FI Page 21
For-profit Chancellor U. cuts oft-critical accreditor, eyes another By TIMOTHY MAGAW tmagaw@crain.com
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Chancellor University in Seven Hills voluntarily is severing ties with its longtime accrediting agency — an organization that has been sharply critical of the operations at the for-profit college formerly known as Myers University.
By Oct. 11 of next year, Chancellor no longer will be accredited by the Higher Learning Commission in Chicago, which twice in the last three years has rapped the university on its knuckles for what the accrediting body characterized as ailing finances, faulty leadership and less-than-stellar academic offerings.
Chancellor president Robert Daugherty, who has maintained the university is improving on all fronts, said in an interview last week that Chancellor was in “active discussions with other accreditors that are more consistent with the mission and values of our university.” However, he wouldn’t disclose those accreditors or describe the ways in
which their approaches would align more closely with Chancellor’s mission. The Higher Learning Commission on two occasions — one as recent as last June — issued “showcause” orders against Chancellor, which required the university to prove it deserved continued accreditation. Without accredited academic
offerings, the university’s students wouldn’t be eligible for federal financial aid — a critical revenue stream for Chancellor and all for-profit colleges. However, the Higher Learning Commission this month lifted its most recent show-cause order, though neither officials at Chancellor nor See CHANCELLOR Page 8
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