March 24, 1989: Board of Trustees Regular Meeting Minutes

Abstract

Presented are the minutes of the 131st 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. Amy McFarland and Ralph Crum were sworn in as student trustees. Presidential, executive, and committee reports followed. The Board further resolved: to follow Federal guidelines in making YSU a drug-free workplace; to permit the University to purchase property fronting on the west side of Fifth Avenue; to construct a student housing complex; to approve repairs to the artificial turf in Stambaugh Stadium; to transfer asbestos funds; to name the School of Education building Fedor Hall; to approve the transfer of funds for various projects; to establish budgets in the Cushwa Center for Industrial Development for support programs; to install vending machines for the sale of condoms in the rest rooms of four buildings; to approve the creation of a Hospitality Management Program; to adopt a policy on independent contractors; to confer honorary degrees upon Dr. Morris Slavin and J.S. Cafaro; to grant permission for the sale of beer in Beeghly Center during Youngstown Pride games; and to express appreciation to William J. Lyden for his service on the Board. The Board went into executive session to discuss pending legal actions.