Why Not Numero UNO in our Metroplex?

  Given the positive changes in the higher education establishment Columbus these days, and the newly emerged focus on regional development, the time may be right to consider the creation of a truly great regional state university in our part of Ohio: our Northeast Ohio “Metroplex”. 

  We could call it the University of Northeastern Ohio -UNO. Potentially a first rate public university on a par with the best in undergraduate, graduate and research-related education.

And although UNO would not single handedly solve all our Metro area’s problems, it could be another piece in the complex struggle to create, or perhaps recreate, our region (the Cleveland, Akron-Canton, Youngstown triangle) into something with a heart and a soul.