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Panhellenic recruitment numbers dropped for the first time in nine years for formal recruitment this spring. The number of women who registered for recruitment fell from 1,432 in 2017 to 1,278 in 2018. Registration had seen a steady increase since 2009 when 630 women underwent ...

Ohio State ranked 19th out of all colleges and universities for charitable giving in 2017, garnering $403 million, according to data released last week from a national survey. The university ranked 21st in each of the past three years. The university benefited from a swell ...

Since January 2017, at least 10 high-ranking employees — from department chairs to business leaders — have left Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center for jobs elsewhere, five of whom were among those that signed letters in May criticizing the medical center’s culture under then-CEO Sheldon ...

A husband and wife duo are the latest to leave Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center for West Virginia University’s growing medical enterprise. Rhonda Campo, who served as associate director of business development at the medical center, and John Campo, the center’s director of psychiatry and ...

Chris Holtmann’s eight-year, $24 million contract as the Ohio State men’s basketball coach was approved by the Board of Trustees’ Talent and Compensation Committee Thursday to the surprise of no one. Since he is one of the highest-paid university employees, his finalized contract still had ...

The legacy of Reagan Tokes will live on at Ohio State through a scholarship fund established in her name. The Reagan Delaney Tokes Memorial Foundation, set up by her parents following her death, will donate $50,000 to the university to fund a scholarship. The gift ...

Ohio State is developing a plan to attract and retain top talent. Susan Basso, the university’s vice president of human resources, presented her three-part plan to the Board of Trustees’ Talent and Compensation Committee at its meeting Thursday. The plan was comprised of HR excellence, ...

When Ohio State’s Campus Partners collaborated with the City of Columbus to revitalize the Weinland Park neighborhood in the early 2000s, it began a process of making the area more desirable to live for everyone, including students. Now, the neighborhood, once thought of as forgotten ...

Colleges and universities across the country are finding new ways to support their research endeavors as the federal government’s funding has flattened over the years, and Ohio State is no exception. Ohio State’s research and development expenditures, which are the total amount the university spends ...

As recruitment weekend approaches, more than half of the fraternities that had their social activity put on hold in November have been approved to hold recruitment events. Recruitment is a vital part of Greek life chapters, for it is the time when fraternities grow their ...