Three students hold trays of food from the campus cafeteria.

Student Experience Initiatives

The Ohio State University at Newark offers students an opportunity to experience Ohio State on a small campus with an incredibly diverse student population. We plan to leverage our diversity and the personalized nature of our learning environment to enhance student success and further distinguish the student experience. Our goal is to develop an experience that is extremely attractive to all Ohioans because of its outstanding reputation for excellent faculty and staff who are dedicated to preparing students to be engaged citizens in a global society. Through internships and service-learning experiences, students support the community that helped develop the campus and become engaged citizens.

Elevate the quality of campus life

  • Construct a science building
  • Increase the capacity of our residence halls
  • Assess the quality of the residential experience of students living on campus
  • Renovate Founders Hall
  • Better serve the diverse culinary tastes and dietary needs of our students

Enhance teaching quality

  • Increase resources for pedagogical development focused on inclusive teaching and decolonizing courses
  • Build a tight alliance with the university’s Teaching and Learning Institute

Enhance student support

  • Implement new, proactive advising methods
  • Expand our learning communities
  • Collaborate with Stone Lab to create a learning experience for the students in the SAGE
  • Learning Community who enroll in ENR 2100 in fall of 2021
  • Increase peer mentoring
  • Increase staffing in career services
  • Obtain external funding to support student success
  • Improve transportation options within Newark and between Newark and Columbus
  • Improve access to healthcare services for students living on campus