RWC will retain its own administrative structure and not be absorbed into UC’s Uptown Campus colleges, UC Provost and Vice-President Anthony Perzigian announced recently.Last year, Perzigian established the Collegiate Restructuring Steering Committee (CRSC), saying that the University was looking for structural change for stronger alignment with the University System of Ohio.
As the process gained steam last spring, several different options for restructuring the University were under consideration. At one point, it appeared very likely that Raymond Walters and Cl-ermont colleges were headed in the direction of being absorbed into colleges in Clifton. If that had happened, the RWC Art and Visual Communication Department, for example, would probably have been absorbed by the College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning (DAAP).
Now that option has been rejected by the CRSC, in favor of leaving in place the present administrative structure for RWC and Clermont. And the Provost has accepted the CRSC recommendations. Thus, RWC will retain its own dean and separate departments.
On the other hand, the University will continue the process of unifying its curriculum across colleges, so that students should have no problems transferring credit from one UC college to another. The curriculum effort is coinciding with the process of converting UC’s academic calendar from quarters to semesters, which is scheduled to go into effect for the Fall of 2012. Perzigian said that the result will advance “University System of Ohio (USO) goals and objectives for serving and graduating more students and offers a highly focused array of affordable, accessible and streamlined degree programs.”
The semester conversion will make transferring between universities much easier for UC students. Often in that case, two or three of a student’s classes might not transfer.
For some students, the change won’t come soon enough. Sophomore Danielle Koegel transferred this year from NKU, which is on semesters, and she ran into some trouble of her own. “Three of my classes didn’t transfer to Raymond Walters because of the stupid quarters,” she said. “That’s nine credit hours!