The Ohio University Board of Trustees will be taught about the University’s ongoing efforts to integrate and have interaction with Artificial Intelligence (AI) by way of curriculum and within the classroom, in addition to hear from faculty and students from the sports administration program on the present state of the trade and the experiential studying alternatives out there throughout conferences Thursday, April 16, and Friday, April 17, on the Athens campus.
Additionally, the Board will receive an enrollment update from Vice President of Enrollment Management Candace J. Boeninger, highlighting the preliminary census headcounts for spring 2026, in addition to up to date retention charges for the Athens and Regional Campuses. She will even present a short real-time preview of the autumn 2026 getting into class forward of the May 1 National Candidate’s Reply Deadline and present perception into the assorted subjects shaping the enrollment panorama in Ohio and nationally.
The Board will even hear from Director of Athletics Slade Larscheid, who will present an update on Ohio University’s Intercollegiate Athletics, together with key staffing updates, upcoming soccer opponents and efforts to increase the visibility of Ohio Athletics. He will even present an summary of the “Stand Up for Ohio Football” giving marketing campaign and its function in supporting the continued development and success of OHIO’s soccer program.
Committee conferences are set to start at 11:15 a.m. on Thursday, April 16, in Walter Hall 104 and conclude round 3:30 p.m. Committee conferences will resume on Friday, April 17, beginning at 9:30 a.m., with the principle board assembly starting roughly at midday. The full schedule and agenda for the April conferences, in addition to hyperlinks to livestreams for each days, is accessible on-line at ohio.edu/trustees.
Additional agenda gadgets from the Board of Trustees’ April conferences are anticipated to embrace:
Integrating AI into the classroom
Academics and Student Success Committee, 1 p.m., Thursday, April 16, Walter Hall 104
Executive Vice President and Provost Don Leo; Paul Benedict, affiliate professor of instruction in administration and director of the Center for Entrepreneurship; Melinda Rhodes-DiSalvo, government director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment; and Paul Shovlin, assistant professor of English, will current on OHIO’s AI readiness, differentiators in AI for instructing and studying, key institutional dangers in AI adoption and a proposed initiative and related investments. They will even spotlight AI faculty cluster hires.
The Board will hear how OHIO is getting ready students for an AI-driven future by means of curriculum embedded basically schooling, upper-level coursework and credentialing alternatives, as effectively because the impression of faculty and workers improvement by means of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, which focuses on instructing excellence. The presenters will even spotlight the University’s decentralized method to AI adoption, which has fostered innovation throughout disciplines and earned nationwide recognition, and share how OHIO’s technique prioritizes “human-first AI,” strengthening important considering, adaptability and moral AI use that aligns with the establishment’s Dynamic Strategy.
Finally, the presentation will define plans to increase the AI Fellows program to embrace further faculty and scholar leaders and how the University plans to deepen trade partnerships to create new experiential studying alternatives.
Celebrating OHIO’s world-renowned Sports Administration Program
Academics and Student Success Committee, 1 p.m., Thursday, April 16, Walter Hall 104
The Board will hear from EVPP Leo; Jim Strode, affiliate dean within the College of Business; and Lamar Reams, chair of Sports Administration, on Ohio University’s Sports Administration program. They will present a short historic overview of the program, well known as the primary of its variety on the earth, highlighting its longstanding management and impression within the subject of sports administration schooling.
They will even embrace an update on the program’s present state, together with the composition of its scholar physique and its sturdy emphasis on hands-on, experiential studying alternatives that put together students for careers within the sports trade. Current first-year MBA–MSA students will even current to the Board, sharing insights into the real-world experiences they’ve gained by means of the program.
Advancing analysis schooling by means of doctoral levels
Academics and Student Success Committee, 1 p.m., Thursday, April 16, Walter Hall 104
Leo, together with David Koonce, dean of the Graduate College, will current on doctoral diploma manufacturing at Ohio University. The presentation will spotlight the important function analysis doctoral applications play in advancing the University’s analysis mission, scholarly repute, and public impression, in addition to their significance in Carnegie’s R1 Classification. The dialogue will even spotlight OHIO’s doctoral outcomes inside nationwide tendencies.
The Board will even be taught about two present initiatives that exhibit OHIO’s shift from descriptive evaluation to proactive help, together with Doctoral Milestone Tracking, which gives constant visibility into key factors of doctoral progress whereas preserving faculty authority over tutorial selections, and the Konneker Grant-supported Dissertation Writing Support Program, which gives sustained, community-based help for doctoral writers, in addition to grasp’s and Honors Tutorial College students finishing theses.
Capital Projects
Resources, Facilities, and Affordability Committee, 9:35 a.m., Friday, April 17, Walter Hall 104
Jon Cozad, senior advisor for Design and Construction, will share facility venture highlights with the Board together with:
Start of building (Projects over $500,000):
- Grosvenor Hall Renovation Phase I
- OUC Bennett Hall Storm Improvements
- OUL Brasee Hall Nursing Renovations Phase III
- OUZ HVAC and Energy Efficiency Improvements Phase II
- West Green Chilled Water Plant Upgrades
Continued building progress (Projects over $500,000):
- Bush Airport New Hangar Construction
- Chilled Water Plant 3 Expansion
- College of Fine Arts Facilities Renewal
- Convocation Center Electrical, HVAC and Fire System Improvements
- Heritage Translational Research Center
- Housing Phase II New Construction – McDavis Hall
- Marching 110 Practice Field
- Old Heating Plant Switchgear
Substantial Completion (Projects over $500,000):
- Bentley Hall and Bentley Annex HVAC and Controls
- Bush Airport Zero Hangar Renovation
- Copeland Hall HVAC and Controls