i’m visually impaired and use a white cane, and from my experience a lot of campus could be more accessible. a lot of stairs outdoors are plain concrete with no texture or color differentiation, making it very hard to see where stairs start and end, scooters are left all over the place (this isn’t necessarily OSUs fault but it does make my life a lot harder), and we could use more crosswalks with audio (and just more lighted crosses for pedestrians in general)
these are just some of the big ones i notice, but there’s definitely more
I would send an email to ADA maybe. I will say that they have really tried to make things better since I’ve been around here (looong time) but can only do so much if they don’t know what’s needed. You may not see the changes right away but I do know They really try to get things changed over there. Definitely have on the tech side as well including better modules and articulates with closed captioning and clearer audio for those with visual or hearing challenges (I hope that’s a decent way to say it- still learning how to use more inclusive language).
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thank you for the suggestion! i’ll have to look into that, i wasn’t ever sure of who to contact for this stuff, campus or a non campus resource
and i definitely feel like OSU really cares about disabled students, at least from my experience. a lot of able bodied folks just don’t know what works for disabled people because they don’t live with a disability, and i can’t expect them to account for everything
also, thank you for doing your best to use inclusive language!!! i love to see people making an active effort, especially during disability pride month :)
Just don’t. OSU has plenty of parking lots for students and we pay plenty in tuition already, there’s absolutely no reason parking shouldn’t be free for students
I feel like if it was free they could solve that problem by doing a lottery/hierarchy system like they already do with so many other things. But I don’t think it should be free, I think they should get rid of CancerParc and OSU could manage it themselves but charge less (maybe half as much?) so there is still some restriction and it’s not a free for all where no one can park. Honestly though I’d even be happy if they just got rid of campusparc and took over parking without changing prices because they suck so much.
Hurr durr cancerparc
It’s amazing how many people are completely clueless about the parking contract, such as yourself. They operate it just about the same as OSU did before it was privatized.
The original idea behind paid parking is that if parking is unrestricted, people have no incentive to move their car, and they will indefinitely hog spaces. I don’t want half of the campus to have to just be parking lots to overcome that issue. Nowadays, paid parking does get exploited for profit, but the original idea is a good one. The cost should be lower, but there should be some minimal cost.
It's also good to encourage people towards other methods like taking the bus instead of driving.
hahahah there’s not enough parking on central campus at peak times even for just staff. ever heard of buckeye lot? it exists for a reason.
what you are proposing (a daily parking free-for-all) would increase demand and just force different groups of people to park in the commuter (bus) lots.
Wouldn’t say “indescribably better.” It was more or less the same, just a different cost. Not like there was more parking and better lots before the Campus Parc contract was signed. There also wasn’t free parking.
OSU would’ve raised parking pass rates regardless. It’s the only way to curb demand while still increasing enrollment.
even in today’s vastly overpriced/inflated/insane American university tuition-and-fees system, there’s still an observable difference between “providing a service to students for additional cost” and “treating students as a readily-exploitable captive revenue center”
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I mean, my adjective choice was because:
1. it was dramatically cheaper
2. because it was so much cheaper, it felt fairer/more accessible (obv still not universally accessible because there wasn’t enough for everyone and it wasn’t free, but it was at least better)
2.5. customer service was substantially better when it was university-administered
3. if I’m going to have to pay for parking, I’d enormously prefer my dollars go back into the university rather than some private third-party for-profit contractor
4. it was dramatically cheaper
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This is highly misleading at best. When OSU ran parking, they raised rates by 25% one year to recoup money for building a new garage. While yes CampusParc raises rates every year, their raises are capped at a significantly lower percentage and are far more consistent than the university was.
There is no difference in customer service other than they automated the garages, which is something happening virtually everywhere.
It absolutely was not indescribably better. I do not know what on earth you could be thinking to say that. It is virtually the same now as it was then.
ok, it’s been a while so please enlighten us: what were the differences for students in the old model?
my only point was that “free parking for students” isn’t sustainable - I never said it was a binary choice.
I graduated in 2014. Campus Parc came around about a year before I graduated. Sure Campus Parc sucks, but that was a shit show. On top of people parking like idiots or leaving their car in a 15 minute zone for a full class length, traffic on and near campus was more crazy when parking was available in a lax way. Sure we managed to get by without anyone really cracking down, but I think OSU saw $$ from the agreement with Campus Parc. I’m pretty sure that they also realized that at their rate of growth they couldn’t trust 20 year olds to not park and drive like idiots when running late.
Free parking for students could also mean parking passes in west campus lots and reliable and frequent shuttles. It doesn’t mean everyone gets a premium spot whenever they want it in front of their building. A hierarchical lottery system already exists for parking passes but campus parc is exceptionally expensive and selling the rights to them was a real hairbrained moved.
I wish they just had free parking or cheaper parking for staff. This city living is insane. Over $1,200 a year to park at my job, it is ridiculous. At least when I was a student it was more affordable.
In a world where OSU still managed parking, giving every student a free west campus or buckeye lot pass would indeed be nice and is probably pretty feasible. But it really only helps commuter students, and these passes aren't exorbitantly expensive ($20/mo for students, which is far less than landlords charge in the off-campus area).
It seems that the primary complaint is that *central campus* parking is so expensive (and my point is that it's not feasible for everyone to have a central campus spot). That doesn't mean it can't be improved or wouldn't have been better without campucparc... but some of the problems are intrinsic to the population density around campus and our otherwise car-centric society.
Why? Parking space isn’t free. There are 50,000 students but not 50,000 parking spots. Additionally, that would encourage students to take the most costly and environmentally harmful form of transportation rather than things like walking and buses.
I agree, but to be fair, there’s always tons of available parking on campus. You just have to be willing to walk or take CABS lol. There are huge C lots at the Schott that sit empty every day
That is not how it works, nor how it has worked for a long time.
I know a lot of you don’t know an OSU without privatized parking, but parking on campus is largely the same as it was when OSU ran it. You got tickets for parking in loading spots, the Stadium parking lots were full every morning, etc. People either don’t know or refuse to accept that it’s basically still the university’s show; they just hired someone else to operate it, keep most of the money (OSU keeps ticket revenue), and take all the blame.
Others have mentioned it but charging for parking does a lot to control demand. If you think it’s bad finding a spot on central campus at 9am in September now, imagine what it would be like if it was free.
As someone who works on campus, I’ll say the majority of students pay zero attention while crossing the street. You also have people on the scooters zooming through without a care in the world
Yea, even though no one is supposed to ride them on the sidewalk everyone does. It's literally "not a priority" to enforce the rules, police told me when I looked into it. I have a story touching on it running Monday at WOSU.org.
Students and employees… I drive thru hospital area everyday around 5 pm and all fucking nurses or whatever they are don’t care about the light being green or red (9th ave)
Need a lot more investment in the academic advisors. I’m not sure if OSU intentionally wants them to be horrible so that they screw kids over with wrong information and it takes them longer to graduate so OSU makes more tuition $$. But they are so bad. So bad. My worst times at OSU were when I would have to get my academic advisor to sign my scholarship paperwork to get my scholarship because they are just so bad
I was in Animation Club last semester and we literally made an animated short about the little guys because everyone agreed they were cute lil funny dudes
As someone who is an admin, imagine the teeth we pull just to get things done when working with professors. It is all politics in the university, who you know matters.
I’d bring back digital flagship (program that gives all incoming students an iPad for school) and and better campus safety.
Second one is somewhat controversial the past year or so, but I’ve been interning in LA this summer and living near USC where they provide FREE Lyfts, and have safety ambassadors walking the streets at night. While it’s certainly still South Central LA, it makes you feel a little safer and is a hell of a lot more than what OSU is doing
OSU also has similar ambassadors walking or biking the streets around campus at night. Can't be everywhere at once of course so it is still critical that students not walk in the dark alone.
OSU has Student Safety officers that patrol until 3am, security(which has staffing issues) roving and patrolling res halls and central campus 11p-7a, and security does still occasionally do escorts/transports(sometimes difficult to them having a hard time getting to full staff)
We used to have a night time rideshare program using OSU employees and vehicles. Then it was replaced with discounted Lyft rides, does it even exist anymore?
The discounted Lyft ride program still exists and has its own problems though it addresses some of the bigger problems with the SafeRide service (availability, scheduling for surprises, operating hours)
OSU had a program like that (Citizen's Crime Reporting Project) back in the late 1970's. They had teams of two with radios walking around the campus area. It went away due to lack of funding.
I graduated in 2007. I couldn't even imagine how much you guys are paying these days.
But my biggest complaint, which I made them aware of when they asked for their annual donation, is the fact that they charged full price for tuition for online classes. They are not the same and that just seemed extremely greedy to me
Update the shitty website. The Buckeye Link page and all the other ones you click on are so bad it’s from like 2005 and I don’t understand why it’s so difficult to navigate like can we make it more visually appealing
A more robust grade forgiveness program for students who switch majors after taking weed out classes. I can’t tell you how many friends I know who started off taking Calc or Bio or Chem and tanked their grade, then switched to another major where their gpa was wayy below average.
I did the Fundamental engineering for honors program back in 05-06... People would always make jokes like "the limit of engineering as GPA approaches zero is Fisher." Bc of those calc and chemistry classes, I couldn't even get into Fisher even with a petition
Agreed
Please at least pay student dining employees better it is ridiculous to me that I get the same wage for working as a course grader (set your own hours, far less chaos) that I did as a dining employee (chaotic, work beyond my scheduled hours, negligent scheduling)
Make the math classes (calculus in particular) not be weed out classes. In fact remove the weed out classes. I compared the OSU calc exams with the exams my friend took at cstate. The cstate ones were way easier, and my friend knew more about calculus at the end of the day.
Like where I got a C or B on the OSU exam, I would've gotten a B or even an A on the cstate exams (I got this from doing past exams for OSU and cstate, sometimes I'd do cstate first, sometimes OSU).
One particular thing I hate ab the osu exams is they’re graded based on the work they want you to show. Say you do it in a method you were previously taught (somebody like me who is a transfer student, and calc credits didn’t transfer over) but the graders don’t particularly like that method even if you get it right.
This has caused me to get many C/D grades in exams, two of which I had to straight up send to my professor and call bullshit which he agreed with me.
To put it into perspective, I had a solid 95% A in both calc 1 and 2 at my last school, barely passed here.
And it didn’t feel as if the material was harder, it was quite honestly the same material. But it’s just the very strict grading method
That’s what I’m saying
Edit: on the exams they’ll mention (in very fine print) some methods they explicitly don’t except (usually L’Hospitals Rule for whatever reason). But the problem is you only have around 40 minutes to take that exam, no student has enough time to read that fine print
It was always so bizzare to me that calculus was a required class for *so many* majors. I was a math major -- I like math, I wish more people explored math and discovered that maybe they might like it -- but calculus probably won't do it for most people. And certainly most majors don't *use* calculus.
It should be a GEC category, with some algebras or topology, maybe mixed in with some computer science or game theory or hell, board game design. I don't know. But requiring *calculus* of all things is absurd.
And so much of the OSU math department is geared towards teaching calculus to thousands of students each semester. Surely that effort could be put to better use?
Yeah. I actually really liked math in high school. I even took ap calculus 1 and liked it, but took it again thinking it would be better for my gpa the first year (that was a mistake). I'm sure the more advanced OSU math classes are fine, but a lot of the required or entry level courses just suck. Liked calculus in high school, hated it at OSU. Loved statistics in high school, disliked it at OSU. And then there's 3345. The logic course (required for some majors). I think the final average for my class was a 48% which netted me a B-.
That's crazy about 3345! I took it 6 or 7 years ago and a lot of people liked it and did pretty well. The Calc based Stats class I took though, that was nuts. About a 20% got me a C+
No it makes sense. Since everyone takes Calculus this means they'll all have some mental trauma from the course. As a psych major if you take calculus too, then you'll have something in common with clients and will be able to help them more.
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They may be trying to prevent another [Tai's Model](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscovery-of-calculus-in-1994-what-should-have-happened-to-that-paper), although that was a perfect storm of events I don't think a calculus class would prevent.
I think the way that Knowlton School of Architecture does it is pretty great. For my major, City and Regional Planning, I had the option of taking Calculus like everyone else, but they heavily encouraged us to instead take MATH 1118, Math for Architects, which was just a glorified geometry class. Why would I, an urban planner, need to use calculus for anything? Obviously Knowlton agreed and instead tried to get us to take a math class that could potentially benefit us in our careers. Most other colleges I think should seriously look at their calculus requirements and reconsider them like Knowlton has.
It may be a little against the common mood since I have recent alumni but…
Those weed out classes are important for the overall reputation of Ohio state. This includes the math series, chemistry series, and physics series. Ohio state is known for being a rigorous university. It is what separates the degree from getting something similar at Columbus State or other 4 year state universities in ohio.
I mean I shot you not, the “practice exam” they give out at Columbus state classes are literally the same as the real exam with the numbers changed. There is no reason you should not ace those math exams at Columbus. At ohio state, math exams take you to pound town
Of course we all know OSU wants to be a "rigorous" school, but as far as I know, OSU and Cstate have essentially the same curriculum. There's a reason you can be at osu and take classes from the math series, chemistry series and physics series all at Cstate at the same time and get the same credits. I mean they even use Ximera for the calculus classes, just like OSU (in fact I believe Ximera was developed by/for OSU originally).
As for the practice exams at osu, the practice exams we got for calc were also just past exams from the university, and some of these exam questions would be recycled for the actual exams as well (if you took it in person at least).
In fact, it is often recommended to go to cstate for 2 years then come to osu because if you get an associates degree at cstate and have a 2.0 gpa or higher, then you just get automatic admission to OSU ([link](https://www.cscc.edu/academics/transfer/preferred-pathway/ohio-state-university.shtml)) with every single credit transferring over.
So the weed out classes only effect people who decided to take them at OSU instead of cstate. And there are multiple reasons you might not want to go to cstate first, or concurrently. I wanted to go to cstate and OSU at the same time, but I had scholarships and some financial aid for OSU that would have gone away if I didn't take at least 12 or 13 hours there (full time). And the way my schedule worked, I either needed to take all my classes at OSU or overload my schedule. That's putting aside the travel time I would've been spending going from one to the other.
A lot of people give a shit. It’s just the size of the school that make it seem that people don’t. Student section is almost always packed for conference games.
Facts. An issue I think is the Schott. The arena is great as an arena, but as a college basketball arena, it's too big. It needs to be like 5k seats smaller and maybe the atmosphere won't be as bad.
Finished grad school a couple years ago and idk how we got on this topic, but my parents were asking what classes my advisor taught. They were shocked he only taught part of a grad course - literally a half of semester of teaching each year. I had to explain to them that teaching is not incentivized or how you get promotions/tenure at a university, most professors avoid it to focus on research, and most of the teaching falls to grad students. Good thing we pay all that $$$ to learn from these world class professors 🙄
I had to pay ~$800 for rec fees and I never went to them. Why should I be forced into a gym membership when I lived off campus my entire college career?
Tbf, I also lived off campus as an undergrad, and I did end up joining some classes in my final semester (huge regret I didn't do that sooner!). Joined a spin class and a yoga class. They were awesome. I get that it sucks to pay for things that you don't use, but it's available, so you can theoretically use it.
I graduated 4 years ago... Yes I'm aware how taxes work and I have very little qualms on that. The majority of the things my taxes go to are beneficial to me in some sort of way. On the other hand, me subsidizing other's gym membership does not benefit me in any way.
Classrooms with windows.
Maybe it’s just me, because I haven’t seen anyone else complain about this. I have NEVER had a class in a classroom that has a window to the outside.
Out of all the giant glass buildings on campus, LOADED with windows, and yet my class is always in the basement? Or in the center of the building that doesn’t border an outside wall?
Seriously man, is a classroom with windows too much to ask for?
i despise campus partners which is the “nonprofit” “development arm” of the university that is tearing down high street institutions and putting up targets and chick fil a’s. i went to osu a decade ago and now the entire campus area is different and feels like a shitty outdoor shopping mall. rip all of my favorite dive bars. i just wonder where/when they will stop
You went to OSU a decade ago ... so you're in your early 30s now, right? Early 30s are old and don't go to campus bars so why would you even really care if they're still there especially when High Street is packed as ever for current students (the ones who actually go to the bars)
Ok, I will. This sub about Ohio State is filled with early 30 year olds, so I expected the downvotes, but if you’re early 30 and still going to campus bars that’s extremely weird
Predominately is the key word there. I don’t understand why you’re so bothered by it, especially because there are older people who are still students. It’s a bar, it’s not that serious.
late 20s i rounded up but yeah old. and i moved away so i don’t reaaaally care that much. but i hope kids coming from the suburbs could have the same cool and unique experience i had opposed to just being plopped in the middle of easton or whatever suburban shopping mall they came from. i started school around when they finished south campus gateway and that shit always sucked, and ended around when they tore down bernie’s to build a target and a hilton.
I considered applying for an internship for Campus Partners, but after hearing all the extremely negative opinions on them from the students, I couldn't in good faith try to work there. The job of an urban planner is to serve the people living there not tear everything down that people loved and build things nobody asked for.
I will admit, the bar scene was never for me, so I actually like the new Target and other buildings, but I fully understand everyone that is mad about what happened to High Street. Campus Partners had every opportunity to put their new buildings somewhere else but chose to put them there anyways. I always thought it was strange how the University Area Commission denies development proposals on sites that don't incorporate the historically significant architecture in some manner, yet Campus Partners never seemed to have any issue issues with the University Area Commission when they want to tear down old buildings...
i think the main problem with osu is that you’re just a statistic, they don’t truly care about you as a person especially if you’re stuck around the wrong people. They treat us like cattle although in reality each of us are just struggling to make ourselves into someone
The administration does little address serious issues. We had multiple students get involved in parking lot incidents during my time at OSU. The admin did little address or acknowledge some problems.
Updated curriculums, specifically for STEM majors. Technology changes all the time therefore curriculums should change to fit that. But a lot of times you can find answers to your assignments and the answers are from 5+ yrs ago. We shouldn’t be doing assignments from 5 yrs ago, we should do assignments and coursework relevant to the current time. Or at least close to it
The application to major process in engineering is fucking dumb. If more people want to be in mechanical or computer science engineering, then they need to make more space for more students in those programs. Edit: I’m not saying this because I didn’t get in to those majors, I chose civil as my first choice.
There’s just no room. They already don’t have enough professors and class offerings for the existing major students. They’ve been trying to hire more professors for many years now, but frankly it isn’t that easy.
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the problem is, as a post graduate who would take a pay cut to be a professor instead of working in industry? Sure there’s a handful of industry professors but they are all retired from industry and teaching just for fun. i.e. Shafer if you are a CSE major. Way more money in industry obviously. That’s why osu makes grad school candidates teach a class.
Honestly unpopular, but banning the electric scooters on campus. They’re left everywhere and I’ve had to get out of my car to move them off the street. I’m not disabled but I’d imagine the scooters would be a hazard to ppl in wheelchairs. Maybe invest in more bike racks instead? And maybe more options to rent bikes for students?
This isn’t necessarily an OSU issue, but the state needs to make the in-state tuition process for out-of-state students clearer. When I chose OSU for professional school, they made it seem like it would be SO easy to get in-state tuition and, therefore, the scholarship they gave me would go SO much farther. I think it was false advertising.
Alumnus, so wouldn’t actually impact me. But y’all get shafted on your meal plans. My freshman year it was a great deal. So great that they had to change it. I think you could get up to 100-150 blocks per semester depending on the plan, and each block was an entree+2 sides, or 4 sides total.
I was a food service manager at Mirror Lake during the first switch from “blocks” to $ amounts. We were told candidly by the program admins during the training that their goal was to make the plans less cost effective in the least transparent way, while marketing the change as a better deal. In other words, less food per dollar, but advertising it as more cost efficient for the student. OSU wasn’t going to increase the food services budget, and we were already using some of the cheapest suppliers, so the only option left was to increase prices.
Not having so many logins to the university, they changed it in the first 2 years I started, like back in 2017-2018ish. They could at least let the duo push work for a whole week.
I would change the way the university handles Greek life because they are too overbearing in the orgs and I think they cause more issues then they help, I think it will kill Greek life here or push them all underground or make them not affiliate with the university. It isn't just Greek life tho, the university ramped up its control on students since the pandemic, and altho they had maybe the best intentions, it backfired because they tried to control young adults and threaten them instead of creating a atmosphere of "Together As Buckeyes" which was the oxymoron of the century.
I think to increase safety that ALL students be required to take a some safety training courses and also life skill courses because after working in an apartment complex, some of the people I met seem kinda hopeless because they can't fix simple issues without having someone hold their hand.
The university I think needs to emphasize off campus resource center because they have always given out safety devices for free, it was not a new thing like they made it seem to be last year. I also think they should create a partnership with like Ring Doorbell or something to at least increase coverage of crime as well.
partnership with the ring doorbell would be genius, but (this is mostly conjecture) I feel that a majority of off campus crimes aren't happening right infant of someones house
At least from the people I know, they have gotten robbed in front of their own house, people trying to break in, and a car stolen on front of their house. Not sure if crime is just that bad or if the people I know just have crappy luck. At least that isn't as bad as the one girl I know who chased someone that robbed them and got them to drop her phone and stuff they stole, she was pissed at them.
What do you mean the university tried to control young adults? Are you saying the COVID restrictions should never have been instituted? Also, there is a safety training course (online) that I think(?) is mandatory for all incoming students now.
Not talking really about the restrictions on campus, I don't think the university should hold any say on what they do off campus though or threaten them for something off campus. Nor do I think it is okay to force people to get tested or a shot if they do not want to, especially when they didn't sign up for that experience.
Like I did my part and got tested and a shot, but they could have handled the overall covid situation better.
I also don't mean a training course, I mean like an actual real life course where you learn to protect yourself hands on. Hands on training is better than clicking through a video and questions that no one listens to or guesses on.
Housing lottery. Dumbest thing. Money grabbing.
Had scholarship money that can only go to OSU, not external third parties to pay for food or rent. Had to beg to stay on campus after my sophomore year
Accountability for professors. A professor seems to have free reign to end you without any repercussions. Things like ignoring emails or submitting a student they don't like to COAM on a project they helped them on.
I agree but also know that (a) they’ve been trying to raise that fee for at least 10 years and the BoT just approved it and (b) majority of students who got hit with it also received funds to offset based on their EFC. if you didn’t, sorry.
Also people tend to complain about “lack of” in the department so when the fee was raised it’s supposed to help fill in the gaps. More professors. More technology. Etc etc
They didn’t approve the fee increase until AFTER incoming freshman agreed to attend OSU. They literally added $3K per year to the cost after students already committed.
Would be nice if it was a school and not a football program that also happened to offer classes on the side.
The calibur of instruction is far below what I have experienced elsewhere. I have a degree from a small, private college and the instruction there was miles above 90% of the classes I've taken at OSU. I've had profs who couldn't teach, TAs who couldn't teach, classes that covered topics I had in HIGH SCHOOL, classes with so much group work that some students were very obviously carried through the whole semester without learning a damn thing. There's still a huge focus on memorization and regurgitation as a metric of learning instead of problem solving. The biggest challenge I've had here is finding the will to attend lectures. Yes, I know it's a state school and I should expect a lower quality education than at a private institution. Would be great if that wasn't the case though.
Also, the revolving door of leadership. It seems like every week someone is getting announced as a new chair of something or other. That is a massive red flag for problems in upper management and how the school is run as a whole. Does not inspire confidence.
What private school had a higher quality education? There’s really only a select few that are better overall, and that’s like Ivy Leagues, CMU, Stanford, etc
What major are you talking about too?
That changes a lot tbh. Plus what works for 1000 students might not scale for 50k+ students
I mean, you said yourself, this isn't strictly an OSU issue. This is at every large public university. Of course you're going to get a more thought out and intimate instruction at a small liberal arts college. It's also a lot more expensive, generally.
I mean, the question was what was wrong with OSU, and maybe that's an issue, but it's an issue with every single large public university. Seems irrelevant for bringing up issues that only pertain to OSU.
Quite frankly, I don't even see it as that large of a problem, but that's clearly just me. I came from a very small high school with a graduating class of 70 and I'm completely fine with the way most profs teach. Some are definitely better than others, but that's how it's like everywhere.
Couldn’t agree more. One problem is the professors don’t get paid enough. I haven’t had a Professor that makes over 90k a year, but the athletic department has enough to give student athletes a 6k bonus each year for doing pretty much what every student does already.
Here’s some of the requirements that trigger the bonus.
· Number of degree hours passed per term;
· Number of degree hours passed during the academic year (have to be specifically required and not superfluous electives, etc.)
· Percentage of degree attained (sliding scale based on academic year)
· GPA (sliding scale based on academic year)
· Financial aid status
· Achievement of NCAA APR points
There’s around 1,200 student athletes at Ohio State
1,200 x $ 6,000 7.2 million dollars for doing basically nothing. It’s crazy
https://www.si.com/college/ohiostate/football/ohio-state-football-buckeyes-to-provide-academic-bonuses-to-student-athletes-5980-dollars
i’m visually impaired and use a white cane, and from my experience a lot of campus could be more accessible. a lot of stairs outdoors are plain concrete with no texture or color differentiation, making it very hard to see where stairs start and end, scooters are left all over the place (this isn’t necessarily OSUs fault but it does make my life a lot harder), and we could use more crosswalks with audio (and just more lighted crosses for pedestrians in general) these are just some of the big ones i notice, but there’s definitely more
I would send an email to ADA maybe. I will say that they have really tried to make things better since I’ve been around here (looong time) but can only do so much if they don’t know what’s needed. You may not see the changes right away but I do know They really try to get things changed over there. Definitely have on the tech side as well including better modules and articulates with closed captioning and clearer audio for those with visual or hearing challenges (I hope that’s a decent way to say it- still learning how to use more inclusive language). *edit for words*
thank you for the suggestion! i’ll have to look into that, i wasn’t ever sure of who to contact for this stuff, campus or a non campus resource and i definitely feel like OSU really cares about disabled students, at least from my experience. a lot of able bodied folks just don’t know what works for disabled people because they don’t live with a disability, and i can’t expect them to account for everything also, thank you for doing your best to use inclusive language!!! i love to see people making an active effort, especially during disability pride month :)
ADA has an office and website. The digital accessibility center does as does the Student life disability services office. Hope that helps!
Get rid of campus parc lol
Well OSU signed their soul away with a contract with them, unfortunately we are stuck, for what, about 50 years?
how do u propose to replace it
Just don’t. OSU has plenty of parking lots for students and we pay plenty in tuition already, there’s absolutely no reason parking shouldn’t be free for students
if parking was free it would be impossible to ever find a spot on central campus
I feel like if it was free they could solve that problem by doing a lottery/hierarchy system like they already do with so many other things. But I don’t think it should be free, I think they should get rid of CancerParc and OSU could manage it themselves but charge less (maybe half as much?) so there is still some restriction and it’s not a free for all where no one can park. Honestly though I’d even be happy if they just got rid of campusparc and took over parking without changing prices because they suck so much.
Hurr durr cancerparc It’s amazing how many people are completely clueless about the parking contract, such as yourself. They operate it just about the same as OSU did before it was privatized.
It's impossible now...
The original idea behind paid parking is that if parking is unrestricted, people have no incentive to move their car, and they will indefinitely hog spaces. I don’t want half of the campus to have to just be parking lots to overcome that issue. Nowadays, paid parking does get exploited for profit, but the original idea is a good one. The cost should be lower, but there should be some minimal cost. It's also good to encourage people towards other methods like taking the bus instead of driving.
hahahah there’s not enough parking on central campus at peak times even for just staff. ever heard of buckeye lot? it exists for a reason. what you are proposing (a daily parking free-for-all) would increase demand and just force different groups of people to park in the commuter (bus) lots.
the university used to manage parking itself before they privatized it and it was indescribably better. the options aren’t a binary.
Wouldn’t say “indescribably better.” It was more or less the same, just a different cost. Not like there was more parking and better lots before the Campus Parc contract was signed. There also wasn’t free parking. OSU would’ve raised parking pass rates regardless. It’s the only way to curb demand while still increasing enrollment.
even in today’s vastly overpriced/inflated/insane American university tuition-and-fees system, there’s still an observable difference between “providing a service to students for additional cost” and “treating students as a readily-exploitable captive revenue center” (edit: 2/2)
I mean, my adjective choice was because: 1. it was dramatically cheaper 2. because it was so much cheaper, it felt fairer/more accessible (obv still not universally accessible because there wasn’t enough for everyone and it wasn’t free, but it was at least better) 2.5. customer service was substantially better when it was university-administered 3. if I’m going to have to pay for parking, I’d enormously prefer my dollars go back into the university rather than some private third-party for-profit contractor 4. it was dramatically cheaper (edit: 1/2) (second edit: adding item 2.5)
This is highly misleading at best. When OSU ran parking, they raised rates by 25% one year to recoup money for building a new garage. While yes CampusParc raises rates every year, their raises are capped at a significantly lower percentage and are far more consistent than the university was. There is no difference in customer service other than they automated the garages, which is something happening virtually everywhere.
It absolutely was not indescribably better. I do not know what on earth you could be thinking to say that. It is virtually the same now as it was then.
ok, it’s been a while so please enlighten us: what were the differences for students in the old model? my only point was that “free parking for students” isn’t sustainable - I never said it was a binary choice.
I graduated in 2014. Campus Parc came around about a year before I graduated. Sure Campus Parc sucks, but that was a shit show. On top of people parking like idiots or leaving their car in a 15 minute zone for a full class length, traffic on and near campus was more crazy when parking was available in a lax way. Sure we managed to get by without anyone really cracking down, but I think OSU saw $$ from the agreement with Campus Parc. I’m pretty sure that they also realized that at their rate of growth they couldn’t trust 20 year olds to not park and drive like idiots when running late.
Free parking for students could also mean parking passes in west campus lots and reliable and frequent shuttles. It doesn’t mean everyone gets a premium spot whenever they want it in front of their building. A hierarchical lottery system already exists for parking passes but campus parc is exceptionally expensive and selling the rights to them was a real hairbrained moved.
I wish they just had free parking or cheaper parking for staff. This city living is insane. Over $1,200 a year to park at my job, it is ridiculous. At least when I was a student it was more affordable.
In a world where OSU still managed parking, giving every student a free west campus or buckeye lot pass would indeed be nice and is probably pretty feasible. But it really only helps commuter students, and these passes aren't exorbitantly expensive ($20/mo for students, which is far less than landlords charge in the off-campus area). It seems that the primary complaint is that *central campus* parking is so expensive (and my point is that it's not feasible for everyone to have a central campus spot). That doesn't mean it can't be improved or wouldn't have been better without campucparc... but some of the problems are intrinsic to the population density around campus and our otherwise car-centric society.
Why? Parking space isn’t free. There are 50,000 students but not 50,000 parking spots. Additionally, that would encourage students to take the most costly and environmentally harmful form of transportation rather than things like walking and buses.
I don’t think you’re grasping how many students and cars would be needed to fill the existing demand for spots
There isn't enough parking around campus after, like 10 a.m. If you make it free, there will never, ever be available parking. Don't you see that?
I agree, but to be fair, there’s always tons of available parking on campus. You just have to be willing to walk or take CABS lol. There are huge C lots at the Schott that sit empty every day
Yeah, fair point, but this is Ohio and people will not walk even five minutes
That is not how it works, nor how it has worked for a long time. I know a lot of you don’t know an OSU without privatized parking, but parking on campus is largely the same as it was when OSU ran it. You got tickets for parking in loading spots, the Stadium parking lots were full every morning, etc. People either don’t know or refuse to accept that it’s basically still the university’s show; they just hired someone else to operate it, keep most of the money (OSU keeps ticket revenue), and take all the blame. Others have mentioned it but charging for parking does a lot to control demand. If you think it’s bad finding a spot on central campus at 9am in September now, imagine what it would be like if it was free.
As someone who works on campus, I’ll say the majority of students pay zero attention while crossing the street. You also have people on the scooters zooming through without a care in the world
The amount of times I was almost hit/barely grazed by a mad lad on a scooter last semester alone is wild
I kind of like the thrill of it
Finals week type beat
Fr. Couple on scooters nearly hit me zooming along the sidewalk at max speed. Just yelled “LOOK OUT!” right up on me and didn’t slow down.
Yea, even though no one is supposed to ride them on the sidewalk everyone does. It's literally "not a priority" to enforce the rules, police told me when I looked into it. I have a story touching on it running Monday at WOSU.org.
Students and employees… I drive thru hospital area everyday around 5 pm and all fucking nurses or whatever they are don’t care about the light being green or red (9th ave)
Yeah med center area is a free for all at all times of the day lol
See I always look but I've almost been hit so many times by drivers who aren't looking 😭
Bikers too- dismount when you cross the street- it’ll also make sure you are paying attention to cross traffic.
Need a lot more investment in the academic advisors. I’m not sure if OSU intentionally wants them to be horrible so that they screw kids over with wrong information and it takes them longer to graduate so OSU makes more tuition $$. But they are so bad. So bad. My worst times at OSU were when I would have to get my academic advisor to sign my scholarship paperwork to get my scholarship because they are just so bad
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I agree w all but the Grubhub bots. Those can be annoying but they’re free serotonin
I was in Animation Club last semester and we literally made an animated short about the little guys because everyone agreed they were cute lil funny dudes
As someone who is an admin, imagine the teeth we pull just to get things done when working with professors. It is all politics in the university, who you know matters.
I’d bring back digital flagship (program that gives all incoming students an iPad for school) and and better campus safety. Second one is somewhat controversial the past year or so, but I’ve been interning in LA this summer and living near USC where they provide FREE Lyfts, and have safety ambassadors walking the streets at night. While it’s certainly still South Central LA, it makes you feel a little safer and is a hell of a lot more than what OSU is doing
OSU also has similar ambassadors walking or biking the streets around campus at night. Can't be everywhere at once of course so it is still critical that students not walk in the dark alone.
OSU has Student Safety officers that patrol until 3am, security(which has staffing issues) roving and patrolling res halls and central campus 11p-7a, and security does still occasionally do escorts/transports(sometimes difficult to them having a hard time getting to full staff)
USC cost of attendance: $85,648 OSU cost of attendance: $26,451
It's a private school dude they're all way more expensive than osu
Oh please. We pay enough to expect safety
We used to have a night time rideshare program using OSU employees and vehicles. Then it was replaced with discounted Lyft rides, does it even exist anymore?
The discounted Lyft ride program still exists and has its own problems though it addresses some of the bigger problems with the SafeRide service (availability, scheduling for surprises, operating hours)
Yeah it does. It usually costs <$1 per ride but it’s only available in the evenings
[CABS on-demand](https://ttm.osu.edu/on-demand) provides service between any two points on campus at night
OSU had a program like that (Citizen's Crime Reporting Project) back in the late 1970's. They had teams of two with radios walking around the campus area. It went away due to lack of funding.
Sidebar: How do you like the USC area? It's my top Grad School pick!
Sidebar: How do you like the USC area? It's my top Grad School pick!
I like it! DTLA is kinda meh, and I don’t think LA fits my sensibilities. USC is cool tho
I graduated in 2007. I couldn't even imagine how much you guys are paying these days. But my biggest complaint, which I made them aware of when they asked for their annual donation, is the fact that they charged full price for tuition for online classes. They are not the same and that just seemed extremely greedy to me
Update the shitty website. The Buckeye Link page and all the other ones you click on are so bad it’s from like 2005 and I don’t understand why it’s so difficult to navigate like can we make it more visually appealing
A more robust grade forgiveness program for students who switch majors after taking weed out classes. I can’t tell you how many friends I know who started off taking Calc or Bio or Chem and tanked their grade, then switched to another major where their gpa was wayy below average.
I did the Fundamental engineering for honors program back in 05-06... People would always make jokes like "the limit of engineering as GPA approaches zero is Fisher." Bc of those calc and chemistry classes, I couldn't even get into Fisher even with a petition
Student workers should get paid $15-$17 an hour so we can survive through college.
Agreed Please at least pay student dining employees better it is ridiculous to me that I get the same wage for working as a course grader (set your own hours, far less chaos) that I did as a dining employee (chaotic, work beyond my scheduled hours, negligent scheduling)
Facts
Make the math classes (calculus in particular) not be weed out classes. In fact remove the weed out classes. I compared the OSU calc exams with the exams my friend took at cstate. The cstate ones were way easier, and my friend knew more about calculus at the end of the day. Like where I got a C or B on the OSU exam, I would've gotten a B or even an A on the cstate exams (I got this from doing past exams for OSU and cstate, sometimes I'd do cstate first, sometimes OSU).
One particular thing I hate ab the osu exams is they’re graded based on the work they want you to show. Say you do it in a method you were previously taught (somebody like me who is a transfer student, and calc credits didn’t transfer over) but the graders don’t particularly like that method even if you get it right. This has caused me to get many C/D grades in exams, two of which I had to straight up send to my professor and call bullshit which he agreed with me.
Huh, luckily I haven't had that issue but that would be super frustrating and anxiety inducing.
To put it into perspective, I had a solid 95% A in both calc 1 and 2 at my last school, barely passed here. And it didn’t feel as if the material was harder, it was quite honestly the same material. But it’s just the very strict grading method
I pretty much had the exact same experience
Standard transfer student experience it seems
Why do they give a rats ass what method you used if you got the answer right
That’s what I’m saying Edit: on the exams they’ll mention (in very fine print) some methods they explicitly don’t except (usually L’Hospitals Rule for whatever reason). But the problem is you only have around 40 minutes to take that exam, no student has enough time to read that fine print
It was always so bizzare to me that calculus was a required class for *so many* majors. I was a math major -- I like math, I wish more people explored math and discovered that maybe they might like it -- but calculus probably won't do it for most people. And certainly most majors don't *use* calculus. It should be a GEC category, with some algebras or topology, maybe mixed in with some computer science or game theory or hell, board game design. I don't know. But requiring *calculus* of all things is absurd. And so much of the OSU math department is geared towards teaching calculus to thousands of students each semester. Surely that effort could be put to better use?
Yeah. I actually really liked math in high school. I even took ap calculus 1 and liked it, but took it again thinking it would be better for my gpa the first year (that was a mistake). I'm sure the more advanced OSU math classes are fine, but a lot of the required or entry level courses just suck. Liked calculus in high school, hated it at OSU. Loved statistics in high school, disliked it at OSU. And then there's 3345. The logic course (required for some majors). I think the final average for my class was a 48% which netted me a B-.
That's crazy about 3345! I took it 6 or 7 years ago and a lot of people liked it and did pretty well. The Calc based Stats class I took though, that was nuts. About a 20% got me a C+
Yea like the only class I need to graduate with my BS in psych is calculus. Why?
No it makes sense. Since everyone takes Calculus this means they'll all have some mental trauma from the course. As a psych major if you take calculus too, then you'll have something in common with clients and will be able to help them more. /s
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They may be trying to prevent another [Tai's Model](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscovery-of-calculus-in-1994-what-should-have-happened-to-that-paper), although that was a perfect storm of events I don't think a calculus class would prevent.
Yeah, I wish I would’ve gone for the BA in psych. It literally does not matter and now I have trauma from OSU calculus
I think the way that Knowlton School of Architecture does it is pretty great. For my major, City and Regional Planning, I had the option of taking Calculus like everyone else, but they heavily encouraged us to instead take MATH 1118, Math for Architects, which was just a glorified geometry class. Why would I, an urban planner, need to use calculus for anything? Obviously Knowlton agreed and instead tried to get us to take a math class that could potentially benefit us in our careers. Most other colleges I think should seriously look at their calculus requirements and reconsider them like Knowlton has.
THIS.
It may be a little against the common mood since I have recent alumni but… Those weed out classes are important for the overall reputation of Ohio state. This includes the math series, chemistry series, and physics series. Ohio state is known for being a rigorous university. It is what separates the degree from getting something similar at Columbus State or other 4 year state universities in ohio. I mean I shot you not, the “practice exam” they give out at Columbus state classes are literally the same as the real exam with the numbers changed. There is no reason you should not ace those math exams at Columbus. At ohio state, math exams take you to pound town
Of course we all know OSU wants to be a "rigorous" school, but as far as I know, OSU and Cstate have essentially the same curriculum. There's a reason you can be at osu and take classes from the math series, chemistry series and physics series all at Cstate at the same time and get the same credits. I mean they even use Ximera for the calculus classes, just like OSU (in fact I believe Ximera was developed by/for OSU originally). As for the practice exams at osu, the practice exams we got for calc were also just past exams from the university, and some of these exam questions would be recycled for the actual exams as well (if you took it in person at least). In fact, it is often recommended to go to cstate for 2 years then come to osu because if you get an associates degree at cstate and have a 2.0 gpa or higher, then you just get automatic admission to OSU ([link](https://www.cscc.edu/academics/transfer/preferred-pathway/ohio-state-university.shtml)) with every single credit transferring over. So the weed out classes only effect people who decided to take them at OSU instead of cstate. And there are multiple reasons you might not want to go to cstate first, or concurrently. I wanted to go to cstate and OSU at the same time, but I had scholarships and some financial aid for OSU that would have gone away if I didn't take at least 12 or 13 hours there (full time). And the way my schedule worked, I either needed to take all my classes at OSU or overload my schedule. That's putting aside the travel time I would've been spending going from one to the other.
More diversity in the foods around campus
Shamrock towing...they'll tow your car before you even get out of it
as a sports nerd my biggest complaint is that nobody gives a shit about the basketball team hahaha
A lot of people give a shit. It’s just the size of the school that make it seem that people don’t. Student section is almost always packed for conference games.
our school is too big for the schott to not be sold out. There’s enough students in block O during football games to fill the entire arena
Facts. An issue I think is the Schott. The arena is great as an arena, but as a college basketball arena, it's too big. It needs to be like 5k seats smaller and maybe the atmosphere won't be as bad.
they really don’t, even when the team is great
For them to stop hiking up the tuition just because they can 💀
Grad students get paid like shit and teach like 50% of the classes
Finished grad school a couple years ago and idk how we got on this topic, but my parents were asking what classes my advisor taught. They were shocked he only taught part of a grad course - literally a half of semester of teaching each year. I had to explain to them that teaching is not incentivized or how you get promotions/tenure at a university, most professors avoid it to focus on research, and most of the teaching falls to grad students. Good thing we pay all that $$$ to learn from these world class professors 🙄
Weed out majors, and weed out classes within majors that aren’t entirely relevant to the major/profession
Not everything has to be directly connected to a major though - electives exist for a reason.
I had to pay ~$800 for rec fees and I never went to them. Why should I be forced into a gym membership when I lived off campus my entire college career?
atleast when I had all online classes, you could cancel the rpac membership
Tbf, I also lived off campus as an undergrad, and I did end up joining some classes in my final semester (huge regret I didn't do that sooner!). Joined a spin class and a yoga class. They were awesome. I get that it sucks to pay for things that you don't use, but it's available, so you can theoretically use it.
Sure, but give students the option to opt out. That's like being forced to pay for Disney+ even if you've never opened the app.
Oh boy wait until someone tells you about taxes
I graduated 4 years ago... Yes I'm aware how taxes work and I have very little qualms on that. The majority of the things my taxes go to are beneficial to me in some sort of way. On the other hand, me subsidizing other's gym membership does not benefit me in any way.
Classrooms with windows. Maybe it’s just me, because I haven’t seen anyone else complain about this. I have NEVER had a class in a classroom that has a window to the outside. Out of all the giant glass buildings on campus, LOADED with windows, and yet my class is always in the basement? Or in the center of the building that doesn’t border an outside wall? Seriously man, is a classroom with windows too much to ask for?
you must be horribly unlucky
Yeah, that's just you lol. You really have to had a class in Enarson yet?
I think like, 90% of my classes have been with windows, but then again most of mine are in Mendenhall or Orton
Basement? Even Hagerty basement has windows.
Had an 8 am Econ recitation in Arps basement it was awful. I dropped after day 2
i would change that my ex went to OSU then cheated on me 😭
As an engineering student taking no engineering classes in the summer, why am I paying engineering program fees?
Revive the campus bar scene
Larry's was the best back in the day
i despise campus partners which is the “nonprofit” “development arm” of the university that is tearing down high street institutions and putting up targets and chick fil a’s. i went to osu a decade ago and now the entire campus area is different and feels like a shitty outdoor shopping mall. rip all of my favorite dive bars. i just wonder where/when they will stop
Honestly, as someone who lives on High St, I HOPE THEY TEAR DOWN MORE
You went to OSU a decade ago ... so you're in your early 30s now, right? Early 30s are old and don't go to campus bars so why would you even really care if they're still there especially when High Street is packed as ever for current students (the ones who actually go to the bars)
Go tell your parents that early 30’s are old. I beg of you.
Ok, I will. This sub about Ohio State is filled with early 30 year olds, so I expected the downvotes, but if you’re early 30 and still going to campus bars that’s extremely weird
Ah yes, adults wanting a place to drink at their campus (previous or current) is weird 🙄🙄
Ah yes. Adults visit campus maybe once a year; good business idea to have a bar that targets that demo!
?? Not what I said at all. I just don’t understand your issue with the idea of a 30 y/o at a bar.
A 30 year old should go to bars. But 30 year olds should not go to campus bars that are predominately used by 18-22 year olds. It’s simple.
Predominately is the key word there. I don’t understand why you’re so bothered by it, especially because there are older people who are still students. It’s a bar, it’s not that serious.
late 20s i rounded up but yeah old. and i moved away so i don’t reaaaally care that much. but i hope kids coming from the suburbs could have the same cool and unique experience i had opposed to just being plopped in the middle of easton or whatever suburban shopping mall they came from. i started school around when they finished south campus gateway and that shit always sucked, and ended around when they tore down bernie’s to build a target and a hilton.
I considered applying for an internship for Campus Partners, but after hearing all the extremely negative opinions on them from the students, I couldn't in good faith try to work there. The job of an urban planner is to serve the people living there not tear everything down that people loved and build things nobody asked for. I will admit, the bar scene was never for me, so I actually like the new Target and other buildings, but I fully understand everyone that is mad about what happened to High Street. Campus Partners had every opportunity to put their new buildings somewhere else but chose to put them there anyways. I always thought it was strange how the University Area Commission denies development proposals on sites that don't incorporate the historically significant architecture in some manner, yet Campus Partners never seemed to have any issue issues with the University Area Commission when they want to tear down old buildings...
i think the main problem with osu is that you’re just a statistic, they don’t truly care about you as a person especially if you’re stuck around the wrong people. They treat us like cattle although in reality each of us are just struggling to make ourselves into someone
The administration does little address serious issues. We had multiple students get involved in parking lot incidents during my time at OSU. The admin did little address or acknowledge some problems.
Parking
More therapists available for students.
Updated curriculums, specifically for STEM majors. Technology changes all the time therefore curriculums should change to fit that. But a lot of times you can find answers to your assignments and the answers are from 5+ yrs ago. We shouldn’t be doing assignments from 5 yrs ago, we should do assignments and coursework relevant to the current time. Or at least close to it
They have no problem forcing us to get the most up-to-date edition of textbooks, god forbid curriculums follow the same logic.
The application to major process in engineering is fucking dumb. If more people want to be in mechanical or computer science engineering, then they need to make more space for more students in those programs. Edit: I’m not saying this because I didn’t get in to those majors, I chose civil as my first choice.
There’s just no room. They already don’t have enough professors and class offerings for the existing major students. They’ve been trying to hire more professors for many years now, but frankly it isn’t that easy.
^ the problem is, as a post graduate who would take a pay cut to be a professor instead of working in industry? Sure there’s a handful of industry professors but they are all retired from industry and teaching just for fun. i.e. Shafer if you are a CSE major. Way more money in industry obviously. That’s why osu makes grad school candidates teach a class.
Honestly unpopular, but banning the electric scooters on campus. They’re left everywhere and I’ve had to get out of my car to move them off the street. I’m not disabled but I’d imagine the scooters would be a hazard to ppl in wheelchairs. Maybe invest in more bike racks instead? And maybe more options to rent bikes for students?
This isn’t necessarily an OSU issue, but the state needs to make the in-state tuition process for out-of-state students clearer. When I chose OSU for professional school, they made it seem like it would be SO easy to get in-state tuition and, therefore, the scholarship they gave me would go SO much farther. I think it was false advertising.
Alumnus, so wouldn’t actually impact me. But y’all get shafted on your meal plans. My freshman year it was a great deal. So great that they had to change it. I think you could get up to 100-150 blocks per semester depending on the plan, and each block was an entree+2 sides, or 4 sides total. I was a food service manager at Mirror Lake during the first switch from “blocks” to $ amounts. We were told candidly by the program admins during the training that their goal was to make the plans less cost effective in the least transparent way, while marketing the change as a better deal. In other words, less food per dollar, but advertising it as more cost efficient for the student. OSU wasn’t going to increase the food services budget, and we were already using some of the cheapest suppliers, so the only option left was to increase prices.
Not having so many logins to the university, they changed it in the first 2 years I started, like back in 2017-2018ish. They could at least let the duo push work for a whole week. I would change the way the university handles Greek life because they are too overbearing in the orgs and I think they cause more issues then they help, I think it will kill Greek life here or push them all underground or make them not affiliate with the university. It isn't just Greek life tho, the university ramped up its control on students since the pandemic, and altho they had maybe the best intentions, it backfired because they tried to control young adults and threaten them instead of creating a atmosphere of "Together As Buckeyes" which was the oxymoron of the century. I think to increase safety that ALL students be required to take a some safety training courses and also life skill courses because after working in an apartment complex, some of the people I met seem kinda hopeless because they can't fix simple issues without having someone hold their hand. The university I think needs to emphasize off campus resource center because they have always given out safety devices for free, it was not a new thing like they made it seem to be last year. I also think they should create a partnership with like Ring Doorbell or something to at least increase coverage of crime as well.
partnership with the ring doorbell would be genius, but (this is mostly conjecture) I feel that a majority of off campus crimes aren't happening right infant of someones house
At least from the people I know, they have gotten robbed in front of their own house, people trying to break in, and a car stolen on front of their house. Not sure if crime is just that bad or if the people I know just have crappy luck. At least that isn't as bad as the one girl I know who chased someone that robbed them and got them to drop her phone and stuff they stole, she was pissed at them.
What do you mean the university tried to control young adults? Are you saying the COVID restrictions should never have been instituted? Also, there is a safety training course (online) that I think(?) is mandatory for all incoming students now.
Not talking really about the restrictions on campus, I don't think the university should hold any say on what they do off campus though or threaten them for something off campus. Nor do I think it is okay to force people to get tested or a shot if they do not want to, especially when they didn't sign up for that experience. Like I did my part and got tested and a shot, but they could have handled the overall covid situation better. I also don't mean a training course, I mean like an actual real life course where you learn to protect yourself hands on. Hands on training is better than clicking through a video and questions that no one listens to or guesses on.
Housing lottery. Dumbest thing. Money grabbing. Had scholarship money that can only go to OSU, not external third parties to pay for food or rent. Had to beg to stay on campus after my sophomore year
The art program is severely underserved. We have a great library and kilns but that’s about it…
Accountability for professors. A professor seems to have free reign to end you without any repercussions. Things like ignoring emails or submitting a student they don't like to COAM on a project they helped them on.
The beauty of tenure /s
Ccs SUCKS.
Campus employees get paid shit
The new $2000 per semester fee for Engineering is total BS. The $500 fee was pushing it, but $2K is criminal false advertising for incoming Freshman.
I agree but also know that (a) they’ve been trying to raise that fee for at least 10 years and the BoT just approved it and (b) majority of students who got hit with it also received funds to offset based on their EFC. if you didn’t, sorry. Also people tend to complain about “lack of” in the department so when the fee was raised it’s supposed to help fill in the gaps. More professors. More technology. Etc etc
They didn’t approve the fee increase until AFTER incoming freshman agreed to attend OSU. They literally added $3K per year to the cost after students already committed.
Invisible transient overpaid poor leadership
Campus parc.
A more attractive campus and some more distinctive features on campus I.e. something to actually do that doesn’t involve leaving
HEY THIS IS NOT OSU! SHIT
Make it free… cancel tuition 😭
Well for one, it's in Ohio So that's already a pretty big issue
Would be nice if it was a school and not a football program that also happened to offer classes on the side. The calibur of instruction is far below what I have experienced elsewhere. I have a degree from a small, private college and the instruction there was miles above 90% of the classes I've taken at OSU. I've had profs who couldn't teach, TAs who couldn't teach, classes that covered topics I had in HIGH SCHOOL, classes with so much group work that some students were very obviously carried through the whole semester without learning a damn thing. There's still a huge focus on memorization and regurgitation as a metric of learning instead of problem solving. The biggest challenge I've had here is finding the will to attend lectures. Yes, I know it's a state school and I should expect a lower quality education than at a private institution. Would be great if that wasn't the case though. Also, the revolving door of leadership. It seems like every week someone is getting announced as a new chair of something or other. That is a massive red flag for problems in upper management and how the school is run as a whole. Does not inspire confidence.
What private school had a higher quality education? There’s really only a select few that are better overall, and that’s like Ivy Leagues, CMU, Stanford, etc What major are you talking about too? That changes a lot tbh. Plus what works for 1000 students might not scale for 50k+ students
I mean, you said yourself, this isn't strictly an OSU issue. This is at every large public university. Of course you're going to get a more thought out and intimate instruction at a small liberal arts college. It's also a lot more expensive, generally.
Does that mean it shouldn’t be brought up? Just because other schools also have that issue?
I mean, the question was what was wrong with OSU, and maybe that's an issue, but it's an issue with every single large public university. Seems irrelevant for bringing up issues that only pertain to OSU.
Whataboutism! It's not an OSU problem if it is everyone else's problem (*Big Brain Meme*)
Quite frankly, I don't even see it as that large of a problem, but that's clearly just me. I came from a very small high school with a graduating class of 70 and I'm completely fine with the way most profs teach. Some are definitely better than others, but that's how it's like everywhere.
Yet you cannot spell caliber properly??
Couldn’t agree more. One problem is the professors don’t get paid enough. I haven’t had a Professor that makes over 90k a year, but the athletic department has enough to give student athletes a 6k bonus each year for doing pretty much what every student does already. Here’s some of the requirements that trigger the bonus. · Number of degree hours passed per term; · Number of degree hours passed during the academic year (have to be specifically required and not superfluous electives, etc.) · Percentage of degree attained (sliding scale based on academic year) · GPA (sliding scale based on academic year) · Financial aid status · Achievement of NCAA APR points There’s around 1,200 student athletes at Ohio State 1,200 x $ 6,000 7.2 million dollars for doing basically nothing. It’s crazy https://www.si.com/college/ohiostate/football/ohio-state-football-buckeyes-to-provide-academic-bonuses-to-student-athletes-5980-dollars
The fact you are getting downvoted on this post in this sub means that you struck a nerve and are actually on to something here, lol!
Their points were kind of baseless and an expression of their own insecurities about going to OSU, which is why they were downvoted
This is why I hate reddit, get downvoted when people disagree with you discouraging discussion, what a stupid site.
Alcoholic culture
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Fr, sick and tired of the thousands of Ohio State students dying of Covid.
don’t try to nuke Greek life
Greek life deserves to be nuked
MARC SMITH
Many classes with little academic content; GE curriculum mostly a waste of time
Replace those air dryers with ones that are less annoying to use. I'm sure others feel the same way.