The Ohio University Board of Trustees approved the fiscal year 2016 budget and Capital Improvement Plan Friday on the University’s Southern Campus in Ironton. That budget includes a $7.9 million operating deficit as the university invests in faculty compensation and facility improvements, though Trustees noted during the meeting that the university would work to balance that budget over the course of the next year.
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