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In 1880, it was suggested that Ohio and Miami be merged directly with Ohio State, but the 1896 Sleeper Bill introduced by Athenian David L. Sleeper, the Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, provided annual support for the university from the state, allowing for Ohio University's survival and elevation to being a state university and ...
Ohio University (Ohio or OU) is a public research university with its main campus in Athens, Ohio, United States. [9] The university was first conceived in the 1787 contract between the Congress of the Confederation and the Ohio Company of Associates, which set aside the College Lands to support a university, and subsequently chartered by the territorial legislature in 1802 and the Ohio ...
Athens is a city and the county seat of Athens County, Ohio, United States.The population was 23,849 at the 2020 census. [5] Located along the Hocking River within Appalachian Ohio about 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Columbus, Athens is best known as the home of Ohio University, a large public research university with an undergraduate and graduate enrollment of more than 21,000 students. [6]
On February 18, 1804, the Ohio legislature passed another “act establishing a university in the town of Athens.” [8] This act named the university “Ohio University” and authorized the trustees to lease the land “for the term of ninety years, renewable forever, on a yearly rent of six percentum on the amount of valuation” subject to ...
Vernon R. Alden: An Oral History. Athens: Ohio University Libraries, 1999. John C. Baker: An Oral History. Athens: Ohio University Libraries, 1995. The Decade of the University: Ohio University and the Alden Years. Meno Lovenstein. Athens, Ohio: Lawhead Press, 1971. A philosophic account of the university in the 1960s
Manasseh Cutler Hall (also referred to simply as Cutler Hall, or Cutler) on the College Green of Ohio University is the oldest academic building at Ohio University and the oldest in the original Northwest Territory of the United States. It is located at the center of the Ohio University campus in Athens, Ohio.
Ohio Dominican University: Columbus: Private not-for profit Master's university 2,942 1911 Ohio Northern University: Ada: Private not-for profit Baccalaureate college 3,695 1871 Ohio State University [16] Columbus: Public Doctoral/highest research university 58,322 1870 Ohio Technical College: Cleveland: Private for-profit Associate's college ...
The Convocation Center, also known locally as "The Convo," was designed by architecture firm Brubaker/Brandt of Columbus, Ohio and built by Knowlton Construction Company of Bellefontaine, Ohio. The first men's basketball game in the arena featured an 80–70 Ohio victory over the Indiana Hoosiers on December 3, 1968.