Thursday, January 23, 2014
COLUMBUS — Ohio State University would get $52.8 million from the state to transform Pomerene and Oxley halls into “state-of-the-art facilities” for the school’s new data analytics program, if a laundry list of funding projects crafted by the state’s college and university presidents is approved by lawmakers.
According to The Columbus Dispatch, the state would fund $404.5 million in capital projects for higher-education over the next two years, up from $350 million over the past two, under recommendations made by a group led by Ohio University’s Roderick McDavis and Southern State Community College President Kevin Boys.
This is the second projects list created by the committee among college presidents at the behest of Gov. John Kasich, breaking from past practice of each institution submitting its own funding requests.