Public Service and Leadership
The Voinovich School has a long history of serving the region and the state by building public leadership capacity and providing applied research and technical assistance. The School works with a variety of local, regional, and state government and non-profit agencies, helping them to better meet their mission of serving Ohio and its people.
The Voinovich School helps to build leadership capacity in the state with it leadership training programs for public and non-profit managers as well as students. These programs include the Ohio University Executive Leadership Institute (OUELI), the Ohio Appalachian Educators Institute (OAEI), and the HTC/GVS Undergraduate Research Scholars.
The Voinovich School also provides value-added research and technical assistance to government and non-profit organizations, covering areas such as safety net services, health care, education, and community development. The Voinovich School helps develop solutions to the problems facing these organizations by providing project facilitation and evaluation, data analysis for use in decision-making, geographic information systems (GIS) support, and survey and focus group research, and through the innovative application of technology.
Public Service and Leadership Projects
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- Institute empowers Appalachian educators to improve student achievement
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The start of a new school year highlights the end of an intense two-year program for teams of Appalachian educators from all over the region who have worked to develop skills and knowledge in order to enhance their respective school distri
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- Voinovich School project blows away attendees at world’s largest wind energy conference
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On May 4, the Great Lakes WIND Network (GLWN) showcased their new interactive website, database and mapping tools developed by Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs to more than 23,000 attendants at WINDPOWER 2009, the world’s largest annual wind energy event in Chicago.According to the director of GLWN, these tools attracted endless attention at GLWN’s pavilion rendering the GLWN’s staff “virtual prisoners at the pc.”
The Voinovich School has been working with GLWN since July of 2008 to create an information database and interactive website that will help connect companies who supply or have the potential to supply parts for wind energy manufacturing, said Dave Simon, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Manager at the Voinovich School, who has been working on the project.
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- Voinovich School identifies gaps in Ohio wellness education
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The Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs completed a policy analysis in February 2009 for the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) and the Ohio Department of Health’s (ODH) joint project to improve student health and education outcomes in the areas of physical activity, nutrition, tobacco use and HIV (PANT-HIV) in Ohio.The Voinovich School compared current Ohio health and wellness policies and curricula to the national K-12 standards to identify Ohio’s gaps and to provide recommendations for program integration.
Through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funding opportunity, “Improving Health and Educational Outcomes for Young People,” ODE and ODH established the Ohio Coordinated School Health Program – HIV and Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Tobacco (CSHP-PANT) as a part of a five year partnership to improve K-12 health education outcomes and have a lasting impact on the health of students.The program works to ensure that schools not only support students academically, but socially and emotionally as well.
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- Collaboration at the Voinovich School helps clients, students
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The Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs collaborated with an Ohio University professor to investigate the technical, financial, and environmental feasibility of her ammonia powered technology, bringing together professional staff and students to complete the project.
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- Maximizing Efficiencies and Building a Partnership Using Maps
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April 3, 2006, a valve failure on the fourth floor of Grover Center caused
damage to 70 offices, 12 classrooms, and WellWorks fitness center, causing more
than 200 Ohio University employees to work 18 hour days for one week to deal
with water and 338 classes to be moved to other buildings on campus, according
to an account on Ohio University’s website.Now, with the help of the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public
Affairs, if this type of situation happens again Facilities Management will
have the information at their fingertips to deal with the situation more
quickly.
The Voinovich School has been
working with Facilities Management since 2005 to convert all their data on
blueprints to GIS maps.GIS is a
technique used to create visual maps with the capacity to hold an unlimited
amount of data.Each feature, for
example a road, can contain information not only about the road’s location, but
also what it is made of, its speed limit, its slope, when it was last worked
on, etc.
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