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Reformed neo-Nazi spoke at Schottenstein Chabad House.
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Wexner Medical Center confirms new leadership after 18 months of searching.
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Comedy musical “Spit in My Mouth” debuts at the Union this weekend.
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Year 139, Issue No. 12
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In 2014, Barbara Piperata wanted to start a new major. Piperata, associate professor of anthropology, had been teaching medical anthropology classes at Ohio State, such as Women’s Health in Global Perspectives and Introduction to Medical Anthropology, and saw students developing interest in learning how to understand the health dilemmas people face today. After four years of creating a curriculum, writing proposals and making revisions, medical anthropology became one of five new majors this semester, in addition to an integrated major in Math and English; Italian studies; Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and Statistics. While it’s simple for students to enroll in these new majors, their creation process
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was difficult for faculty. Randy Smith, vice provost of academic affairs at Ohio State, said the process to create a new major begins at the departmental level, where faculty build upon the curriculum of a new or revised major. “It may be because the field is changing; it may be because these faculty have come here wanting to do something a little differently than what’s been done before,” Smith said. Smith said some majors might overlap with other majors at the university, which is called concurrence, and it’s something he talks to the department faculty about when they are building the curriculum. Eric MacGilvray, chair of the PPE steering committee and professor of political science, said concurrence wasn’t an issue for a major like PPE, where the department chairs in the political science, philosophy and economics departments worked together.
“It literally never came up,” MacGilvray said. After it leaves the departmental level, Smith said the proposal moves to the college, where it will receive another round of revisions. From the college level, it goes to the Office of Academic Affairs, which provides faculty with a template of guidelines they should follow when creating a new major. Smith said he brings those templates and the proposals to the Council of Academic Affairs, where they will add addendums fixing the proposals. “It’s essentially looking at this template and saying, ‘Did they do what they were asked to do, why are you doing this, what’s the program actually look like, who’s going to be teaching it, do you have the resources to get it up and going and keep it going?’” Smith said. Finally, once the proposal for a new major MAJORS CONTINUES ON 2
Last weekend, a group of Ohio State graduate students and their faculty adviser were awarded $40,000 in funding in the Smart Campus Challenge, a sustainability competition hosted by the Ohio State Energy Partners. Their concept: to install Ecosia — a search engine where 80 percent of ad revenue generated by internet searches is used to fund organizations that plant trees around the world — as the default search engine onto 30,000 Ohio State campus computers. The team, named Search for Trees, is composed of captain and MBA student Wende Oslock, her husband and M.D./MPH student Austin Oslock, and medical student Mark McIntyre and are advised by Aparna Dial, director of Energy Services at Ohio State. “Ecosia was developed in Germany, and from there it spread — most schools that use Ecosia are in Europe, as well as a few other schools across the world,” Wende Oslock said. “We will be the first school in America really promoting this as a widespread university initiative.” The team plans to spend the $40,000 on different marketing initiatives, starting by partnering with other sustainability organizations at Ohio State and promoting Ecosia during the Time for Change events held the first week of April. Time for Change is a week of events that focuses on supporting sustainability initiatives and increasing environmental stewardship in the Ohio State community and around the world. Their plans also include widespread advertisement campaigns on campus and through social media channels such as Facebook. The team plans to hire some support staff to manage programming and development, track usage, and handle public relations and social media.
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