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BGSU, schools and city highlight town–gown partnerships as enrollment and campus momentum rise
Summary
Bowling Green State University President Rodney Rogers described rising enrollment, campus investments and deepening partnerships with Bowling Green City Schools and the city, citing shared programs, student teachers and regional economic ties.
Bowling Green State University President Rodney Rogers and other speakers used the State of the City address to describe increasing enrollment at BGSU, campus investments and the university’s ties to Bowling Green City Schools and the broader community.
Rogers described a century-long history of the university’s selection of Bowling Green and emphasized the ongoing partnership between the campus and the city. He said BGSU serves more than 23,000 students across both physical campuses and online and that the university has made progress on enrollment and student outcomes. "A public university for the public good," Rogers said, pointing to student placements, graduate coursework partnerships and shared facilities as examples of mutual benefit.
Superintendent Ted Hazleman outlined concrete exchanges between the district and BGSU: 26 BGSU student teachers were placed in district classrooms this spring, district staff completed 85 credit hours across 32 courses at BGSU last year, and district students completed more than 1,200 college credit hours through the College Credit Plus program. Hazleman also described joint programs such as a BGSU-led math camp at Cream Elementary, a women-in-STEM conference for middle-school students and collaborations with the Bowling Green Rotary Club and community volunteers to pack more than 70,000 meals for the Kids Coalition Against Hunger.
Rogers and other speakers credited regional private-sector investments for supporting the local economy; he cited Abbott Laboratories and Meta as examples of significant regional employers and noted their expected impacts on the area’s workforce and development.
Speakers said these institutional relationships support recruitment, workforce pipelines and civic life in Bowling Green. Rogers urged local support for the schools' operating levy and framed the university’s involvement as part of a shared civic project that benefits students and the broader region.
