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Ohio State to receive
regional award for outreach work in University District The national leadership of The Ohio State University in its outreach
and engagement work has been recognized for the second time in two years. Ohio State has been selected as one of six regional winners of the 2008
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award sponsored by the National
Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). The award recognizes Ohio State’s work in
the University District with a particular focus on the initiatives involving
Campus Partners and other key stakeholders in the Weinland Park neighborhood. Among these key stakeholders are the City of Columbus, Weinland Park
Community Civic Association, University Area Commission, Godman Guild
Association, Ohio State University Extension, Ohio State's Schoenbaum Family
Center, Community Properties of Ohio Management Services and Wagenbrenner
Development Company. Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee delivered a public lecture on April
15 in which he outlined the university’s goals in outreach and engagement as
a public land-grant university.
Following the lecture, the University District partners were recognized
for their involvement with Ohio State in the efforts to revitalize the
neighborhoods. As a regional winner of the Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award, Ohio
State is a finalist for the 2008 C. Peter Magrath University Community
Engagement Award. The national
recipient of this award will be announced at the NASULGC annual meeting in
November. Ohio State was a regional winner last year – the first year of the
award competition – for a submission which focused on the university’s
educational partnerships through the Metro High School, the Schoenbaum Family
Center and the Battelle Center for Mathematics and Science Education Policy. |