Plain Dealer: Move NEOUCOM to Cleveland
Reprinted without permission from the Cleveland Plain Dealer Merge Cleveland State and U of Akron? That's the buzz Posted by Janet Okoben September 20, 2007 23:42PM Categories: Education , Impact An idea to shake up the state's college system could combine Cleveland State University and the University of Akron and bring a medical school to downtown Cleveland. Some of the talk involves moving the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy, known as NEOUCOM, from Portage County or expanding its Rootstown-based campus. • Compare the three schools. Combining CSU and UA would eliminate overlapping programs and administrative jobs, and the two schools would then function under a single leader. The two people with the ability to make these ideas happen, Gov. Ted Strickland and his higher-education chancellor, Eric Fingerhut, would not comment Thursday on what others familiar with the discussions say has a real chance of happening. Fingerhut is in the midst of de