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...As used in sections 3333.81 to 3333.88 of the Revised Code: (A) "Clearinghouse" means the clearinghouse established under section 3333.82 of the Revised Code. (B) "Community school" means a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code. (C) "Common statewide platform" means a software program that facilitates the delivery of courses via computers from multiple course providers to multi...

...(A) The chancellor of higher education shall establish a clearinghouse of digital texts, interactive distance learning courses, and other distance learning courses delivered via a computer-based method offered by school districts, community schools, STEM schools, state institutions of higher education, private colleges and universities, and other nonprofit and for-profit course providers for sharing with other school...

...(A) Each school district, community school, and STEM school shall encourage students to take advantage of the distance learning opportunities offered through the clearinghouse and shall assist any student electing to participate in the clearinghouse with the selection and scheduling of courses that satisfy the district's or school's curriculum requirements and promote the student's post-secondary college or career pl...

...(A) The strategic square footage reduction fund is created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of money credited or transferred to it and grants, gifts, and contributions made directly to it. In addition to any such money, gift, or contribution, funds may be transferred from the Ohio tuition trust reserve fund to the strategic square footage reduction fund, in accordance with section 3334.11 of the Revised ...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Aggregate original principal amount" means the aggregate of the initial offering prices to the public of college savings bonds, exclusive of accrued interest, if any. "Aggregate original principal amount" does not mean the aggregate accreted amount payable at maturity or redemption of such bonds. (B) "Beneficiary" means: (1) An individual designated by the purchaser under a tuition pa...

...(A) Any bonds authorized for issuance by any issuing authority may, with the approval of the Ohio tuitition trust authority and at the option of the issuing authority, be designated as college savings bonds in accordance with this chapter. Bonds so designated shall be known as college savings bonds. The issuer shall sell as college savings bonds as many bonds from such an issue as is practical. (B) Issuing authorit...

...(A) Except in the case of a scholarship program established in accordance with section 3334.17 of the Revised Code, the Ohio tuition trust authority may enter into a tuition payment contract with any person for the purchase of tuition units if either the purchaser or the beneficiary is a resident of this state at the time the contract is entered into. A tuition payment contract shall allow any person to purchase tuit...

...(A) The Ohio tuition trust authority shall adopt an investment plan that sets forth investment policies and guidelines to be utilized in administering the variable college savings program and investment options offered by the authority. The investment options shall include a default option to benefit contributors who are first-time investors or have low to moderate incomes. Except as provided in section 3334.20 of th...

...(A) As used in this section, "state agency" means every department, bureau, board, commission, office, or other organized body established by the constitution or laws of this state for the exercise of state government. (B) If a condition arises concerning the investment of funds received under the variable college savings program and requiring an interim period for investment of program funds, which condition is det...

...In its annual report the board of trustees of the Ohio state university shall state: (A) The condition of the university; (B) The amounts of receipts and disbursements, and for what the disbursements were made; (C) The number of professors, officers, teachers, and other employees, and the position and compensation of each, the number of students in the several departments and classes, and the course of instruction...

...The board of trustees of the Ohio state university may: (A) Create, establish, provide for, and maintain in said university a college of medicine and a college of dentistry. No state funds shall be paid to such college of medicine unless it meets the requirements of section 3333.11 of the Revised Code. (B) Negotiate for and receive conveyances and transfers of property, both real and personal, to be used by said co...

...(A)(1) The Salmon P. Chase center for civics, culture, and society is established as an independent academic unit within the Ohio state university, physically located in the college of public affairs. The center shall conduct teaching and research in the historical ideas, traditions, and texts that have shaped the American constitutional order and society. (2) The center shall establish bylaws requiring the center...

...(A)(1) The Miami university center for civics, culture, and society is established as an independent academic unit within Miami university, physically located in the college of arts and sciences. The center shall conduct teaching and research in the historical ideas, traditions, and texts that have shaped the American constitutional order and society. (2) The center shall establish bylaws requiring the center to d...

...(A) The government of Bowling Green state university is vested in a board of eleven trustees, who shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate. Two of the trustees shall be students at Bowling Green state university, and their selection and terms shall be in accordance with division (B) of this section. A majority of the board constitutes a quorum. For trustees appointed prior to July...

...(A)(1) The Cleveland state university center for civics, culture, and society is established as an independent academic unit within Cleveland state university, physically located in the Levin college of public affairs and education. The center shall conduct teaching and research in the historical ideas, traditions, and texts that have shaped the American constitutional order and society. (2) The center shall estab...

...(A) No state institution of higher education shall take any action or enforce any policy that would deny a religious student group any benefit available to any other student group based on the religious student group's requirement that its leaders or members adhere to its sincerely held religious beliefs or standards of conduct. (B) As used in this section: (1) "Benefits" include, without limitation: (a) Rec...

...Each state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, shall adopt a policy that reasonably accommodates the sincerely held religious beliefs and practices of individual students with regard to all examinations or other academic requirements and absences for reasons of faith or religious or spiritual belief system. The policy shall satisfy all of the following conditions: (A...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Community college" has the same meaning as in section 3333.168 of the Revised Code. (2) "Course syllabus" means a document produced for students by a course instructor that includes all of the following: (a) The name of the course instructor; (b) A calendar for the course outlining what materials and topics will be covered and when during the course they will be covered; (c...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Controversial belief or policy" means any belief or policy that is the subject of political controversy, including issues such as climate policies, electoral politics, foreign policy, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, immigration policy, marriage, or abortion. (2) "Intellectual diversity" means multiple, divergent, and varied perspectives on an extensive range of public ...

...(A) The board of trustees of a state university or college may enter into an agreement with one or more townships, municipal corporations, counties, park districts created under section 1545.04 of the Revised Code, township park districts created under section 511.18 of the Revised Code, or other state universities or colleges and a township, municipal corporation, county, park district, or township park district may...

...(A) All registration fees, nonresident tuition fees, academic fees for the support of off-campus instruction, laboratory and course fees when so assessed and collected, student health fees for the support of a student health service, all other fees, deposits, charges, receipts, and income from all or part of the students, all subsidy or other payments from state appropriations, and all other fees, deposits, charges, ...

...(A) Ohio's two-year institutions of higher education are respected points of entry for students embarking on post-secondary careers and courses completed at those institutions are transferable to state universities in accordance with articulation and transfer agreements developed under sections 3333.16, 3333.161, and 3333.162 of the Revised Code. (B) Beginning with undergraduate students who commence undergraduate...

...(A) As used in this section, "state university" has the same meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. (B) Beginning with the 2022-2023 academic year, each state university shall recognize the successful completion of a course in advanced computer science in high school, as described in the standards adopted pursuant to division (A)(4) of section 3301.079 of the Revised Code, as a unit for admission to th...

...(A) As used in this section and sections 3345.07 and 3345.11 of the Revised Code, in other sections of the Revised Code that make reference to this section unless the context does not permit, and in related bond proceedings unless otherwise expressly provided: (1) "State university or college" means each of the state universities identified in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code and the northeast Ohio medica...

...As used in this section: (A) "Board of trustees" means the board of trustees of a state university, university housing commission, state medical university, community college district, university branch district, technical college district, or state community college. (B) "Political subdivision" means a municipal corporation, county, or township. (C) "Institution" means all real property owned or leased by a...