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It has been 10 months since Ohio State’s Board of Trustees agreed on the annual $1,000 fee for international students, and some think international students shouldn’t bare the burden. “We have not received the funds yet,” said Gifty Ako-Adounvo, director of the Office of International Affairs. “The university will release the funds to us on July 1.” The funds have not been used because “the fee was not collected at the beginning of the budget cycle of 2012-2013,” said Kelechi Kalu, associate provost for global strategies and international affairs, and therefore the money is not spendable. An estimated $1 million has already been collected from firstyear international students that enrolled after Fall Semester, with $554,500 collected this semester, Ako-Adounvo said. After four years, the total revenue generated from the international student fee will reach about $6 million per year.
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The Board of Trustees meet on April 5. A group of protestors interrupted the meeting, speaking out against the international student fee among other things. Ako-Adounvo said the money will provide OIA the opportunity to initiate new programs, including pre-departure orientation set to start this summer at OSU’s gateway locations in China and aims to prepare international students before coming to OSU. An airport welcome program that will meet students when they land in Columbus will be implemented, as well as a cross-cultural training program for academic advisers to “provide better communication,”
Ako-Adounvo said. “The idea is to try to make students’ entry experiences a lot smoother and less (full) of anxiety.” The money will also go into OSU’s Walter E. Dennis Learning Center to provide “more robust and more continuous academic success programs for international students” on subjects like note-taking and time management. From the projected revenues of the international student fee provided by OIA spokeswoman Maureen
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The Ohio State University Police is working toward an accreditation process that will lend the department national recognition. Assessors from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) came Sunday to make sure University Police was following the 188 required standards, and a public information session was held in Blankenship Hall on Monday. If the application is approved, CALEA’s board of commissioners will hand out the certification in August, said Deputy Chief Richard Morman of University Police. The certification will last three years, after which it would have to be renewed. “There’s academic type of accreditation for the university, the hospital is
Miller, 55 percent of the fee will go into academic and service enhancements including Student Life, 25 percent will go toward study abroad scholarships and institutional risk management with the last 20 percent funding information sharing. However, since 25 percent of the revenues will benefit study abroad programs, which will provide funds for all students, some think the fee is unfair. Andrew Lin, a fourth-year in sociology and domestic student, was among those who protested the fee at the Board of Trustee’s meeting Friday. “International students are already studying abroad and therefore the money would most likely be used only by domestic students. If that’s the case, (domestic students) are the ones who should have to pay for those benefits,” Lin said. Miller said 83 international students participated in study abroad programs during the 2011-2012 academic year, compared to roughly 1,700 domestic students. Miller said statistics for the 2012-2013 academic year are not yet available.
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Josh Mandel stops near campus ohio Treasurer and oSU alumnus josh Mandel stops at Fusian at 14 e. 11th Ave. on April 9.
accredited,” Morman said. “CALEA is an accreditation body geared toward law enforcement.” Morman said he first heard of the accreditation process in the ‘90s when he was looking for ways to revamp some policies and procedures, and OSU has paid $8,400 as part of the process. “I proposed it to the chief back in the day, (but) it is very time-consuming,” he said. “It causes you to really do an internal review of your organization … You have to meet a certain amount of standards, and your policies and procedures must cause you to meet those standards.” Morman said he proposed the application to three police chiefs in the 27 years he has served at OSU, and University Police Chief Paul Denton agreed. “Chief Paul Denton came from an agency, the Columbus (Division of) Police,
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While the Ohio State men’s basketball team was competing in the NCAA Tournament, other members of the university community were working toward a different championship title. OSU was crowned the winner of the second annual Environmental March Madness Tournament early Tuesday, defeating other schools in the “Sustainable 16” after filing out initial surveys. The tournament pitted universities against one another based on each college’s environmental curriculum and sustainability efforts and was organized by Enviance, an environmental software company. As the 2013 national champion, OSU will be awarded a $5,000 grant for its Environment, Economy, Development and Sustainability (EEDS) program. Its director will also get an all-expense paid trip to San Diego to attend the 2013 Enviance User Conference and be a part of a discussion panel in April. Neil Drobny, program director for EEDS, said he entered OSU in the tournament because of the numerous sustainability projects on campus.
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oSU crowned winner of environmental March Madness Tournament Ohio State University University of Washington*
*Per the rules of the competition, there was no second-place winner named. Source: reporting “The establishing of the EEDS Program was probably (the) No. 1 (reason),” Drobny said, whose program was introduced last fall. Drobny said OSU’s Olentangy River cleanup, purchasing of wind power and Fisher College of Business’ sustainability cluster also influenced his decision to enter. The other three schools in the contest’s “Finest Four,” narrowed down by a judging panel from 16 to eight in a style similar to NCAA eliminations, were Colorado State University, which made last year’s Finest Four, George Mason University and University of Washington. To help their schools advance,
kAYLA ZAMArY / Design Editor students and faculty had to submit videos, essays and any other “testimonial material” regarding their university’s commitments to environmental advocacy, according to the contest website. Ariel Miller, a fourth-year in environmental policy and management and anthropology, took part in a video submission that highlighted the OSU student organization Growing Green. “We do environmental education and edible gardening with the after-school program at Indianola (Informal K-8),” said Miller, president of Growing Green. “Some of the kids I think really … take
a lot away from it. I like that we can get them outside and interacting with the outdoors in some capacity.” Miller said her student organization seems like it will have a lasting effect on the community — a factor judges considered. “The school has been really open about having a garden, which I’m really happy about,” she said. “Student groups can be kind of fickle — every four years there’s different leadership — so I’m glad that it’ll be sticking around.” The four finalists all showed sustainability efforts regarding food, energy, transportation and waste and water management, according to a university press release, but Enviance CEO and president Lawrence Goldenhersh said OSU fought hard for the victory. “Ohio State competed with power in every area of our competition,” Goldenhersh said in a press release. “Their environmental and sustainability initiatives, including the ‘Zero Waste’ initiative at Ohio Stadium, demonstrated important real-world applications of environmental and sustainability concepts.” OSU’s “Zero Waste at Ohio Stadium” campaign is a plan to eliminate from
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