Navigating OSU
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This document provides an overview of navigating the structure of Ohio State University. It discusses the major parts of OSU including academics, student life, athletics, administration, and governance. It presents organizational charts showing the hierarchy beginning with the Board of Trustees and President and moving down through various councils and committees. The document advises interacting with those higher up in relevant areas for support and gaining contacts. It also discusses following proper routes like committees and university governance for policy changes and projects/events.
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Navigating OSU
- 2. What’s Happening Now? • Overview of the University’s Structure • Understanding with whom and how you should interact within that structure • How to make friends and influence people at the University
- 3. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless…. [It] was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself. -Douglas Adams; The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
- 4. Act 1: The Idea Let’s say you have an idea for an event, policy change, program or life-changing, mind- blowing rollercoaster ride of an initiative of one sort or another. Where do you start with this idea?
- 5. Aiming Your Idea Treat Your Idea Like a News Story • What – is that you want to do • Who – benefits and needs to be involved • When – what is the timeline • How – what is needed to complete your project
- 6. ___________ Start Here. __________ Obviously.
- 7. Aiming Your Idea • Who – benefits and needs to be involved • How – what is needed to complete your project • Stakeholders • Responsible Parties • Interested Parties • Collaborators • Beneficiaries
- 8. Aiming Your Idea - Example
- 9. Parts of OSU Academics Student Life Admini- stration University Athletics Governance Community
- 10. Structure of Ohio State we care? Why should • Changes happen through channels of the structure that affect all of us • Enable project and event planning • Gain support in useful areas • Create contacts to help oneself and one’s organization
- 11. Organizational Charts Board of Trustees President Senior University Presidential Management Senate Councils Council Senate Council of Deans Committees
- 12. Senior Management Council Vice President for Student Life Executive Vice President and Provost Vice President for Outreach and Engagement Vice President and Executive Dean CFAES Administrative Director and Assistant Special Assistant to the President Senior Vice President of Government Relations Senior Vice President for University Communications Counselor to the President Senior Vice President for Administration and Planning Senior Vice President for Business and Finance Vice Provost for the Office of Diversity and Inclusion Chief Financial Officer Vice President and Enterprise Executive for Energy and Vice President for University Communications the Environment Senior Vice President and General Counsel Vice President for Human Resources Vice President for Strategic Enrollment Planning Chief Information Officer Senior Vice President for Health Sciences Special Assistant to the President Chief Executive Officer, Wexner Medical Center Vice President of Government Affairs Senior Vice President for Alumni Relations Joint Vice President, Institutional Affairs for Battelle and President/CEO OSU Alumni Association, Inc. Ohio State University Secretary, Board of Trustees Vice President for Research President, The Ohio State University Foundation Senior Vice President for Advancement
- 13. Using Org Charts • Can be found on most division/offices websites • Aim just below the top for first contact • Remember, there may be charts within charts
- 16. Caveats • Sometimes groups do similar/overlapping things • FOD & FML • Not everything appears online/on an org chart • Ask in your first meeting • Sometimes there will be other interested student groups/academic units = collaborators
- 17. ASK!
- 18. First Meeting • Set it up letting them know the topic • Come with some sort of take away • Try to have as many questions already answered • Have an agenda, but be flexible • Leave with a to-do list
- 20. Policy • Petitions, Benchmarking… Support • Collaborators • University Senate Committee Committees • Other Committees • University Senate/Senior Mgmt Passage • Board of Trustees
- 21. Project/Event • Plan Ideation • Collaborators • Academic Unit/Administration Support • Funding • Getting it done Execution
- 22. Types of Money • Donations – Earmarked, usually • Revenue – Athletics, Intellectual Property, Sales • Fees – Student Activity, Residence Hall Activity… • General Fund