Abstract:
Presented are the minutes of the 121st meeting of the Youngstown State University Board of Trustees. This was a regular meeting. Included are supporting exhibits. Highlights included: resolutions to approve staff/faculty appointments, and to accept gifts to YSU. Presidential, executive, and committee reports followed. The Board further resolved: to permit Dr. Lawrence E. Cummings (Criminal Justice) to assist with the establishment of a prison in the local area; to raise pay for intermittent staff and for those faculty who have completed higher academic degrees; to change Board policy on consulting, due to the recent creation of YSU-APAS; to transfer funds to create a Substance Abuse Prevention Program; to revise the telephone service budget; to set tuition and other fees; to change the name of the Metallurgical Engineering program to Materials Engineering; to approve a Master of Health Services degree and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Professional Writing and Editing; to confer an honorary degree upon James E. Fleming; and to amend athletics policies.