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.