To establish parameters for the review of and payment for goods and services purchased by the university.

Individuals with fiscal duties and approved suppliers

To provide eligible employees guidance on the university’s holiday benefit and its administration.

Faculty and staff (Staff who are members of a bargaining unit and are covered by a collective bargaining agreement are included in this policy. However, when this policy conflicts with specific terms in the applicable collective bargaining agreement, the language in the collective bargaining agreement will prevail.)

To maintain the highest levels of fiscal stewardship, to ensure university investments further the university’s mission, and to comply with all university, state, and federal laws and reporting requirements.

University personnel responsible for the management of the university’s debt and internal bank, and units undertaking capital facilities improvement projects, seeking use of the university’s internal bank funds, or entering into a financing lease

To set forth collection, maintenance, and reporting requirements for out-of-state educational activities.

Units, faculty, staff

To provide an inclusive and accessible university environment for all qualified individuals with disabilities.

Faculty, staff, students, student employees, graduate associates, volunteers, suppliers/contractors, and visitors

To establish requirements for staff who end their employment with the university or who plan to leave their current university position to transfer to another position within the university.

Staff

To promote responsible use of university vehicles, establish requirements for the operation and maintenance of university vehicles, provide consistent oversight, advance the safety and well-being of the university community, promote efficiency while preserving environmental and economic resources, and comply with local, state, and federal laws and regulations.

University units that own, lease, or use a university vehicle in addition to any person operating a university vehicle

To facilitate fair and consistent transfer credit evaluations.

Students

To facilitate fair and consistent transfer credit evaluations of international course work.

International transfer students

To provide processes and procedures for the payment or reimbursement of eligible relocation expenses to eligible faculty and staff.

Faculty and staff

To create an environment where all people have an equal opportunity to apply for and participate fully in university employment and to promote awareness of the university’s affirmative action obligations.

Faculty, staff, student employees, graduate associates, and employment applicants

To promote the safety and welfare of youth who participate in youth activities and programs and outline what is required of faculty, staff, students, student employees, graduate associates, and volunteers who work in youth activities and programs, including their reporting obligations in instances of known or suspected incidents of child abuse or neglect of youth.

Faculty, staff, students, student employees, graduate associates, and volunteers working in youth activities and programs in the course of their university duties

To maintain a university environment free from discrimination, harassment, and sexual misconduct.

Faculty, staff, students, student employees, graduate associates, suppliers/contractors, program participants, volunteers, and visitors

To set forth the responsibilities of the university, registrants, and authorized agents who use controlled substances in animal, cell culture, or in-vitro analytical laboratory research, including their responsibilities to comply with Board of Pharmacy and DEA requirements concerning the administration, handling, storage, destruction, and/or transfer of controlled substances used in such research.

Faculty and research staff who hold individual, or work under a college-based program using, federal Drug Enforcement Administration research or instructing registrations and State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy Terminal Distributor Licenses to specifically use controlled substances in animal or laboratory research. The policy also applies to faculty, staff, and students acting as an authorized agent under such registrations.

Annual reviews of faculty serve to monitor progress toward tenure, promotion, reappointment, and ongoing outcomes. Written performance reviews serve to assist faculty in improving professional productivity, establish goals against which faculty performance will be assessed, determine salary increases and other resource allocations, define progress toward reappointment and/or promotion, and, in the event of poor performance, establish and explain the need for remedial steps.

Faculty

To identify the support and assistance that Ohio State provides to military-connected students.

Faculty, staff, students, and volunteers

To ensure equal access to digital information and digital services for all university constituencies (students, prospective students, faculty, staff, student employees, guests, visitors, and program participants with disabilities).

All units, faculty, staff, student employees, and students

To establish the overall goals, management responsibilities, investment strategies, and discipline for the investment programs of the university investment program.

The Board of Trustees and members of Board of Trustees’ committees and university staff who oversee or approve the university’s investment programs or who manage or report on investment operations.

To outline the appropriate use and protection of the university’s institutional data while preserving the open, information-sharing culture of its academic mission.

Faculty, staff, students, student employees, contractors, volunteers, visitors, sponsored guests of units, and affiliated entities who are acting on behalf of the university.

The purpose of this policy is to describe the rights and responsibilities of the university, faculty, staff and students in the collection, use, retention, and maintenance of data produced as a result of the research enterprise of the university.

Faculty, staff (includes postdoctoral researchers), and students involved in the design, conduct, or reporting of research using university resources or facilities other than those typically used for academic instruction.