OSU seeks 500 top scholars from 3 fields

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<p>OSU seeks 500 top scholars from 3 fields</p>

<p>11/13/2012</p>

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Ohio State plans to spend $400 million over the next decade to hire 500 leading scholars and researchers in three emerging fields in what officials say will be the university’s most ambitious academic effort.</p>

<p>That’s a 17 percent increase over the 2,903 tenured or tenure-track professors currently working at Ohio State. But because of retirements, OSU officials hope to end up with about an 8 to 10 percent increase.</p>

<p>At least half the money will be used to hire teams of veteran professors to work on research that cuts across two or more areas, Provost Joseph A. Alutto said. The balance of the money will support hiring of individual experts.

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<p>[OSU</a> seeks 500 top scholars from 3 fields | The Columbus Dispatch](<a href=“http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/11/13/osu-faculty.html]OSU”>http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/11/13/osu-faculty.html)</p>

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Provost Alutto announced two weeks ago at the launch of our fundraising campaign that the University will be investing at least $400 million in central funding into the Discovery Theme initiative to support the hiring of new tenured and tenure-track faculty.

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<p>[Autumn</a> Quartet: Envisioning a Knowledge City - Office of the President - The Ohio State University](<a href=“http://president.osu.edu/speeches/autumn-quartet-envisioning-a-knowledge-city.html]Autumn”>http://president.osu.edu/speeches/autumn-quartet-envisioning-a-knowledge-city.html)</p>

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