Skip to main content
Office of Academic Affairs

News

  • Distinguished Faculty Service Award 2023

    Three faculty members were announced recently as 2023 President and Provost's Award for Distinguished Faculty Service recipients. Kay Bea Jones, professor in the Knowlton School of Architecture; Steven Lopez, associate professor of sociology; and Piers Norris Turner, associate professor of philosophy, received surprise visits from university leadership announcing the award. The President...
    Picture of the seal of The Ohio State University on a brick walkway in the Oval.
  • Kirwan Institute marks 20th anniversary, launches new strategic plan

    The Ohio State University’s Kirwan Institute for Race and Ethnicity marks its 20th anniversary this year. Building on its work over the past two decades, the Kirwan Institute will embark on a strategic visioning process this spring that is scheduled to be completed this fall, said Executive Director Ange-Marie Hancock. ...
    Logo 2 for Ohio State News
  • 2023 State of Academic Affairs address

    Executive Vice President and Provost Melissa L. Gilliam reflects on progress over the past year and shares updates on Ohio State’s Academic Plan during her 2023 State of Academic Affairs address to the University Senate on Thursday, March 23. Watch the recording ...
    Photo portrait of Melissa Gilliam
  • Supporting Students Through Tragedy

    Tragic events and crises can occur at any point in the semester and may have an emotional and cognitive impact on students and instructors. Resources are available on the Drake Institute website to provide faculty and students extra support during times of tragedy. ...
    A picture of a hand holding a broken heart up to the sun so that the light shines through.
  • Don Pope-Davis, dean of the College of Education and Human Ecology, guides CADREI

    At its annual conference, the Council of Academic Deans from Research Education Institutions (CADREI) inducted Don Pope-Davis as its new president. He had served for the previous year as president-elect of the council. The council is a nonprofit, apolitical assembly of 140-plus deans of education from research and land-grant institutions throughout North America. Its purpos...
    Don-Pope Davis poses in front of windows.

News Archive