March 18, 2011: Board of Trustees Regular Meeting Minutes

Abstract

Presented are the minutes of the 301st 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 modify policies on state residency requirements, the employment of students other than those on work study undergraduate and graduate faculty, the Affiliated Scholars Program, the policy on admission, retention, and graduation standards, the organization of instruction policy, sabbatical leave taking by departmental chairs, teaching by staff, the use of animal subjects in medicine, research, public service centers, institutes, and laboratories, equal opportunity and affirmative action recruitment and employment policy, the administrative appeal process for exempt employees, the resignation policy, employee files policy, the public records policy, tuition and fees, bookstore rentals, athletic events during final examination weeks, and the athletics student athletes policy; to bestow an honorary degree on Peter C. Economus; to approve a Master in Respiratory degree, a Master of Education degree in Intervention Services, and an Education Specialist degree in School Psychology; to approve the YSU 2020 Strategic Plan; to name the Candy and Edward DeBartolo, Jr. Field in the WATTS Center; to rescind a Penguin Club policy; to approve inter-fund transfers; to approve a campus possession of weapons policy; to rescind the substance abuse assistance policy; and to appreciate Larry DeJane and Lyndsie Hall.