The Ohio Board of Regents was created in 1963 by the

Ohio General Assembly The Ohio General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio. It consists of the 99-member Ohio House of Representatives and the 33-member Ohio Senate. Both houses of the General Assembly meet at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus ...

to: provide higher education policy advice to the

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and the

; develop a strategy involving Ohio's public and independent colleges and universities; advocate for and manage state funds for public colleges; and coordinate and implement state higher education policies. In 2015 the Ohio General Assembly renamed the office of the Board of Regents as the "Department of Higher Education." The board consists of nine members, in addition to two

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representatives from the state legislature. The nine regents are not compensated and are appointed by the Governor to nine-year terms of service. The Governor appoints the chancellor who leads a professional staff in the service of higher education. The Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH), created in 2011 as the technology and information division of the Ohio Department of Higher Education, comprises the Ohio Supercomputer Center ( OSC), the Ohio Academic Resources Network (

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), and the Ohio Library Information Network (

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External links

''Ohio Higher Ed''
The Ohio Board of Regents' official website {{Authority control Education in Ohio Governing bodies of universities and colleges in the United States