For the Record?   
June 2005 
 
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The YSU Board of Trustees agreed to scale back tuition and approved the fiscal 
year 2006 budget during a busy series of meetings in June. Trustees also discussed 
the first phase of the East Campus Gateway improvement project, the first steps in 
the construction of a new building for the Williamson College of Business 
Administration, a new plan to increase student scholarships and the end of a 
successful first year of the Youngstown Early College. Board members also passed a 
resolution in memory of board chair Larry E. Esterly, who died unexpectedly in 
May. Trustees elected H.S. Wang as the board?s new chair, and two new trustees 
took the oath of office ? Dr. Dianne Bitonte Miladore and Dr. Sudershan K. Garg. 
 
Here?s a summary of the board?s actions and discussions at the June 24 full board 
meeting, as well as committee meetings on June 2 at YSU Metro College in 
Boardman and June 9 on campus. 
 
Board of Trustees, June 24 
H.S. Wang, vice chair 
 
The board met in Tod Hall: 
?  Franklin S. Bennett Jr., board secretary, swore in new trustees Dr. Dianne Bitonte Miladore 
and Dr. Sudershan K. Garg. 
?  President David C. Sweet presented his Annual Report, focusing on enrollment, planning, 
sound management and other accomplishments.  
  Sweet said YSU has experienced 13 consecutive semesters of enrollment growth. He also 
pointed out that YSU has a 70 percent fall-to-fall retention rate, higher than the Ohio average 
of 66 percent. When students participate in tutoring, mentoring and other programs in the 
Center for Student Progress, the retention rate is over 80 percent. He noted that YSU had a 
?hallmark? commencement in May with the largest graduating class in a decade. He also said 
that from 2000-2004, YSU led Ohio in percentage of enrollment growth. In addition, YSU?s 
minority enrollment has increased 40 percent since fall 2000 
  The president also reported on several planning efforts, including the Centennial Strategic 
Plan, the Technology Master Plan and the Campus Master Plan. He also mentioned a new 
three-year scholarship plan, a new strategic plan for intercollegiate athletics and the 
Centennial Capital Campaign.  
  Sweet also focused on YSU?s ?sound management? practices in the face of declining 
financial support from the state. ?Since I arrived five years ago, the state has reduced the 
budget by $7.7 million..,? he said. Sweet said if state funding per full-time-equivalent student 
funding had stayed constant since 2001, it would have translated into an additional $12.6 
million for YSU. ?That?s $12.6 million in lost opportunity to provide tuition relief for 
students,? he said. He also said that YSU scored high marks on the annul Ohio Board of 
Regents performance report and that the university has healthy Senate Bill 6 ratios. ?That?s a 
tribute to management practices in place,? he said.  
  Sweet noted a series of student, faculty and staff accomplishments, including the Dana 
Wind Ensemble?s performance at Carnegie Hall, a grant to the Beeghly College of Education 
that addresses the shortage of special education teachers and the opening of the new Higher 
Education Center in Lisbon. Sweet said he was pleased that Robert K. Herbert is joining YSU 
in July as the university?s new provost and vice president for academic affairs. He expressed 
gratitude to Bege Bowers for filling in as interim provost. 
  ?All in all, it?s been a busy and productive year,? he said. 
 Bowers reported on several developments during her staff report for academic affairs, 
including Youngstown Early College, a partnership between YSU and Youngstown City. 
YEC?s average daily attendance was 94 percent, which is higher than other Youngstown city 
high schools. Forty-three of the YEC students took college-level classes, enrolled in 75 
semester hours in math, English, computer science, and health and physical education. YEC 
will have four new teachers next year, joining the five already there.  
  The interim provost also noted that a new bachelor of general studies degree was 
approved in April by the Ohio Board of Regents, the Northeastern Ohio Universities College 
of Medicine is planning to offer a doctor of pharmacy degree and there is a new engineering 
agreement with Jefferson Community College. 
 
The board: 
?  Approved a resolution to confer a doctor of humane letters degree on Thomas R. Hollern, 
area president of National City Bank, Northeast Region. Hollern, who will receive the degree 
at summer commencement in August, is past chair, president and CEO of Ohio Bancorp and 
past president and CEO of Dollar Saving and Trust Co. 
?  Voted on a resolution recognizing the accreditation of the bachelor of social work program by 
the Commission on Accreditation of the Council on Social Work Education. The 
accreditation is for eight years. 
?  Approved a resolution congratulating the Dana School of Music?s Symphonic Wind 
Ensemble performance at Carnegie Hall and for receiving the best Collegiate Classical 
Symphonic Band Recording award from Downbeat Magazine. 
?  Voted to grant tenure and faculty rank at the level of full professor to Robert K. Herbert, who 
becomes YSU provost and vice president for academic affairs on July 25. He will join the 
Department of Sociology and Anthropology. 
?  Voted on a resolution to accept 2,420 gifts from university donors totaling $386,003 for the 
third quarter of fiscal year 2005. 
?  Approved a resolution naming the entrance plaza to the new Andrews Recreation and 
Wellness Center as the Alumni Society Plaza. Members of the YSU Alumni Society Board 
provided a gift of $100,000 to the recreation center campaign on behalf of their more than 
65,000 members. ?It will be a wonderful, lasting testimony to our alumni,? said Paul 
McFadden, YSU chief development officer. 
?  Agreed to name the weight room in the recreation center as the Hynes Finnegan Foundations 
Weight Room. The foundation provided a gift of $250,000 to the campaign. ?It was key to 
the early momentum of the campaign,? McFadden said. 
?  Voted on a resolution to name the climbing wall in the recreation center as Flad Mountain. 
The Beecher foundation provided a gift of $1 million to the campaign. Eleanor Beecher Flad 
is the daughter of Ward and Florence Beecher. 
?  Approved the university?s base operating budget for fiscal year 2006. John Habat, vice 
president for administration, gave a report on the budget. In committee meetings, Habat 
reported that the total operating budget for fiscal year 2006 is $147.87 million, up 3.1 percent 
from fiscal year 2005. The budget is based on a 6 percent tuition increase, which would put 
full-time, undergraduate tuition for Ohio residents at $6,333 a year. He noted that the board 
approved a 9 percent tuition increase in January, but that will need to be scaled back to 6 
percent, which appears to be the tuition cap that will be included in the state budget. Habat 
reported that the budget also includes a 3 percent decrease in state funding. Tuition, fees and 
charges now makes up about 65 percent of total general fund revenues, while state funding 
accounts for about 32 percent. Four years ago, the split was 49 percent for tuition and 47 
percent for state funds. Habat also noted that the budget includes 3 percent negotiated salary 
increases for YSU employees who are members of the Fraternal Order of Police and the 
Association of Professional and Administrative Staff. Pay increases for the faculty and 
classified union employees are being negotiated. In committee meetings, Trustee Donald 
Cagigas asked what risks are included in the budget, besides the undetermined salaries for 
faculty and classified staff. Habat said enrollment is always a risk. 
?  Voted for a resolution for a 6 percent tuition increase for students in the Master of Public 
Health program. 
?  Agreed to set tuition at $5,500 a year for students entering the St. Elizabeth Health Center 
School for Nurse Anesthetists in summer term 2005.  
?  Approved the purchase of a small parcel of property on Court Street in Smoky Hollow and to 
accept another small parcel of property on Court Street as a gift. Also approved the purchase 
of small parcels of property on Custer and Scott streets, which are west of Fifth Avenue 
across from Stambaugh Stadium. 
?  Rescinded a resolution the board passed in January that increased student tuition an additional 
3 percent effective fall term 2005. In January, the board approved two resolutions ? one to 
increase tuition 6 percent, and a separate resolution to increase tuition an additional 3 percent. 
Since then, however, the Ohio General Assembly has established a 6-percent tuition cap for 
public universities. So, trustees voted to rescind the 3-percent additional increase. Under the 
revised tuition plan, full-time, undergraduate Ohio residents will pay $6,333 per academic 
year (fall and spring semesters), an increase over the current yearly rate of $5,884. Residents 
of the university?s regional service area in Western Pennsylvania will pay $8,804.88 per year 
instead of the current $8,355.84, and out-of-state students will pay $11,540.88, up from 
$11,091.81. 
?  Agreed to set tuition at $412 per credit hour effective fall term 2005 for the Northeast Ohio 
Universities Master of Fine Arts Degree in Creating Writing. 
?  Ratified faculty and staff appointments. 
?  Voted to confer emeritus status on 21 recently-retired faculty members and nine 
administrators. Hugh Chatman, executive director of human resources, said in committee 
meetings that emeritus status can be conferred on faculty and professional/administrative staff 
who retire from YSU with at least 10 years of meritorious service and upon the 
recommendation of the president.  
?  Approved a resolution of appreciation for the women?s outdoor track and field team, which 
won the 2005 Horizon League Women?s Outdoor Track and Field Championship.  
?  Approved a resolution of appreciation for Karen S. Green, who retired June 1 after nearly 34 
years as an administrative assistant at YSU. She served as administrative assistant for 
Presidents Leslie H. Cochran and David C. Sweet. ?Karen made the president?s office and 
the board of trustees look good,? Trustee Wang said. 
?  Voted on a resolution in memoriam for board chair Larry E. Esterly, who died unexpectedly 
May 7. The resolution designates Room 2069 in Kilcawley Center as the Larry E. Esterly 
Room and directs that a scholarship be established in Esterly?s name to assist political science 
and pre-law undergraduate students. ?His titles don?t adequately describe his service,? said 
Bennett, board secretary. ?He was a teacher and a scholar and in the truest sense of the word, 
a colleague. He was a lifelong example of dignity and excellence.? 
?  Elected Trustee Wang as the new board chair and Trustee John L. Pogue as vice chair. 
 
Finance and Facilities Committee, June 9 
William J. Bresnahan, chair 
Scott R. Schulick, vice chair 
 
?  Habat reviewed a document comparing budgeted general fund revenues and expenditures for 
fiscal year 2005 to actual revenues and expenditures. 
?  Trustee Bresnahan reported that the board?s Audit Subcommittee met with internal auditors, 
reviewed recommendations of internal and external auditors, reviewed a charter for the Audit 
Subcommittee and heard a report on the Sarbanes Oxley Act. 
?  Trustee Schulick reported that the board?s Investment Subcommittee met to review the 
performance of YSU?s investments. 
?  The committee reviewed a report summarizing the revenues and expenditures in the 
university?s Access and Success challenge budgets. 
?  Donna Esterly, YSU chief technology officer, updated the board on the $12 million SCT 
Banner implementation, which is replacing the university?s current administrative computing 
systems. ?A lot of work has been done by a lot of people,? she said. Esterly reported that the 
finance module of the project will ?go live? on July 5. Sweet said implementing the Banner 
software has been ?an enormous effort.? Trustee Wang asked what Luminus is. Esterly said 
the Luminus technology, which is part of the SCT Banner project, will allow students, faculty 
and staff to create their own personal Web pages through the YSU website. Trustee 
Bresnahan asked if Esterly has any reservations as the finance module moves toward ?go 
live? status. ?We?ve had a lot of issues along the way; I do feel we?re on track,? she said. ?I 
don?t see anything as a show-stopper at this point.? 
?  Habat reported that phase one of the East Campus Gateway project is about ready to begin. 
The project calls for $1.2 million in improvements to two parking lots along YSU?s main 
entrance on University Plaza. ?We can do a lot better in creating a much better first 
impression of campus,? he said. 
?  He also reported that a space needs assessment is being conducted for a new building for the 
Williamson College of Business Administration, which is part of the university?s Centennial 
Campus Master Plan. Once the assessment is finished, the university can proceed with cost 
estimates and financing options, he said. The university also is pursuing property south of 
campus for the location of the new building. ?You will hear much more about this project in 
September,? he said. 
?  Habat also reported that the university has reached an ?impasse? with a potential developer 
for the Wick Pollock Inn. Habat said YSU wanted to share with the developer some of the 
risks of the development, but he said there was a ?parting of the minds on how much risk is 
reasonable.? Sweet said YSU will now seek more proposals from potential developers. With 
improvements in downtown Youngstown, particularly the construction of the new 
Convocation Center, Sweet said he believes developers ?will begin looking at this area with a 
little more positive action.? 
?  Sweet reported that Trustees Schulick and Cagigas had met with officials at the Butler 
Institute of American Art to discuss the sale of First Christian Church at the corner of 
University Plaza and Wick Avenue. ?That is a work in progress,? Trustee Wang said. 
?  John Hyden, executive director of facilities, reported on several ongoing and new campus 
improvement projects. Construction of the Andrews Recreation and Wellness Center has 
been ?difficult,? he said. The construction schedule was aggressive to start with, and weather 
has created some delays, but the building should be open by Sept. 1, he added. The 
renovations and addition to the university bookstore are on schedule and should be finished 
by the start of the fall semester on Aug. 29.  
He also reported that 13 classrooms in DeBartolo Hall and three classrooms in Beeghly 
Center will be renovated this summer. Sweet noted that three years ago he committed to 
spending $1 million on campus classroom upgrades. This summer?s renovations will fulfill 
that commitment.  
Hyden reported on several other summer projects, including upgrading exterior doors and 
windows, steam line replacement, renovations to the swimming pool in Beeghly Center, 
masonry renovations and concrete replacement. Trustee Wang noted that all of the projects 
amount to several millions of dollars, mostly all of which goes to local contractors and 
workers. ?That?s good for the economy,? he said. 
 
Internal Affairs Committee, June 9 
John L. Pogue, chair 
Donald Cagigas, vice chair 
?  The committee entered executive session to discuss collective bargaining. 
?  Jimmy Myers, director of equal opportunity and diversity, summarized YSU staffing levels 
by race and gender. ?The university is generally holding its own with its commitment to 
diversity,? Myers said, noting significant increases in the hiring of Hispanic males and 
African American females. Myers also presented information to committee members on 
staffing levels at YSU compared to other Ohio public universities. The information showed 
that YSU generally ranks in the middle of the pack. ?There are no extreme deficiencies,? 
Myers said. ?All of our staffing levels are pretty much standard.? For instance, 90.1 percent 
of YSU?s employees are white, ranking fifth highest among the state?s 11 major, four-year 
public universities. Nearly 1.7 percent of YSU employees are Hispanic, the fourth highest in 
the state. About 6.15 percent of employees are African American, ranking seventh in the 
state. Sweet said the university will continue to make efforts to increase the number of 
minority candidates in applicant pools. 
?  Committee members reviewed the minority business report for the third quarter of fiscal year 
2005. The report shows that of the $15 million in goods and services expenditures by YSU in 
the first three quarters of the fiscal year, $1 million or nearly 7 percent went to minority 
businesses. 
?  The committee also received the minutes of the March 21 meeting of the University Diversity 
Council. Myers noted that the council has decided to increase its number of meetings to six a 
year. 
?  Ron Strollo, executive director of intercollegiate athletics, reviewed spring sports, noting that 
the baseball, women?s tennis and golf teams placed second in the Horizon League. He also 
previewed fall sports, noting that YSU?s football schedule includes six home games and a 
game against Pittsburgh at Heinz Field on Sept. 24. He said legislation that would allow fans 
to bring their own alcohol to tailgating lots at Stambaugh Stadium was passed by the state 
House but has stalled in the Senate. ?We still feel good about its passage some time this fall,? 
he said. Strollo also said that he is involved in talks with Ohio State University to schedule a 
football game in Columbus as early as 2007. YSU also is talking with the University of 
Cincinnati for a possible football game. ?That would be a great match-up for our university,? 
Strollo said. 
?  Elaine Jacobs, associate athletic director, reported on YSU?s NCAA certification process. She 
said the certification is similar to the accreditation process for colleges on campus and 
ensures that the athletic department is operating within NCAA rules and has the same 
oversight as other departments on campus. The process includes an eight-month self-study, 
led by a steering committee chaired by Cyndy Anderson, vice president for student affairs. 
That will be followed by a campus visit by an NCAA peer review team. A decision on 
certification should be made by early 2007, Jacobs said. ?It?s a healthy process,? she said. 
?We look forward to the results.? Trustee Pogue said the board supports the certification 
effort ?and looks forward to participating to the extent it can.? 
?  Strollo presented a draft of the strategic plan for intercollegiate athletics. Sweet said the 
athletics plan is part of an ongoing planning effort on campus which includes enrollment 
management and technology master plans, a campus master plan and an upcoming academic 
strategic plan. ?What we?re doing, in my view, is working the plan,? he said.  
  Strollo reported that YSU enrolls 355 student athletes who otherwise would not be at 
YSU. Thirty percent of them are minority. He said athletics is ?the window to the university,? 
attracting 150,000 fans a year to campus. The university has eight men?s sports and 10 
women?s sports, an $8 million annual budget and awards 183 full-time equivalent 
scholarships annually. The plan also identifies 15 ?benchmark? institutions against which 
YSU will compare its athletics programs. The plan also identifies several key issues, 
including the graduation rates of student athletes, the NCAA?s new Annual Progress Rate, a 
new scholarship plan for 2007-09, maintaining competitive salaries for coaches and budgets, 
athletic facilities and NCAA certification. Strollo also said athletics strives for national 
excellence in football and for placing in the top half of the Horizon League in men?s and 
women?s basketball. Trustee Bresnahan questioned the top-half goal in basketball, saying it 
was ?hardly motivating.? But Strollo said Horizon League universities generally don?t have 
football programs, so they can pump money into developing extremely competitive 
basketball programs. ?I think a top half finish for our men?s basketball, quite frankly, is 
aggressive,? he said. ?That program has a long way to go.? 
  
External Relations Committee, June 2 
 
Larry D. DeJane, chair 
 
?  George McCloud, special assistant to the president for university advancement, reported 
that University Development ?has been making very steady progress? in the Centennial 
Capital campaign, including completion of a feasibility study and a request for proposals 
for campaign counsel. 
?  Paul McFadden, YSU chief development officer, introduced the university?s two new 
development officers: Heather Chunn and Joe Casesse. McCloud said Chunn and Casesse 
are calling ?lapsed donors.? Sweet noted that Western Kentucky University has 31 
employees in its development office, many more than YSU. ?(Chunn and Casesse) are 
going to do the work of 15,? he joked. 
?  The committee received the third quarter report from University Development. The report 
shows a 4 percent drop in the number of donors and a 17 percent drop in donated dollars 
through the first three quarters of fiscal year 2005 compared to the same period of fiscal 
year 2004. 
?  Committee members received a list of summer and fall semester events planned by the 
Office of Alumni Relations, including an event for Columbus alumni in June, the 
Distinguished Citizen Award Dinner in August and an Alumni Tailgate Tent at the YSU 
football game against the University of Pittsburgh at Heinz Field on Sept. 24. 
?  McCloud reported on spring commencement, which included a ceremony for 
undergraduates in Beeghly Hall and a separate ceremony for graduate students in 
Stambaugh Auditorium. ?Everything came off without a hitch,? Trustee Bresnahan said. 
?It was beautifully done?It was a fine day.? Trustee Millicent S. Counts said she liked 
the split ceremonies. ?It gives each group a chance to showcase themselves,? she said. 
Trustee Pogue agreed, saying it gave the graduate ceremony ?a little more luster.? 
?  Bob Tupaj, university web site manager, made a presentation on what McCloud said is 
?one of the best Web sites that state universities in this part of the country can boast.? 
Walt Ulbricht, executive director of the Office of Marketing and Communications, said 
that more than 90 percent of students receive their first college contact through a Web 
site. Tupaj reviewed for the board several new and/or developing Web site items, 
including new Web sites for the provost?s office, institutional research, the YSU 
magazine, the online version of the YSUpdate, Penguin Parade, commencement and 
WYSU-FM. McCloud said the Web site is a constantly evolving effort. ?It is an 
invitation to involvement with the university,? he said. 
?  Ulbricht reported on the university?s spring and summer marketing campaigns, including 
an effort targeting western Pennsylvania with billboards, radio and cable TV 
commercials. McCloud noted a significant increase in enrollment from areas targeting by 
the university?s marketing efforts, including parts of Northeast Ohio. ?Our presence is 
increasingly being felt,? he said. 
?  The committee received a report from WYSU-FM, noting that the station?s annual spring 
fund drive raised $89,110, surpassing the $87,000 goal. The report also showed that the 
station?s membership and underwriting revenue has increased from $237,983 in fiscal 
year 2003 to $263,702 in fiscal year 2005. 
?  The committee received a compact disc of a concert by classical guitarist Ana Vidovic, 
recorded when Vidovic visited YSU on March 29. The concert, co-sponsored by WYSU, 
was broadcast by National Public Radio on April 20 and April 24. WYSU and the Dana 
School of Music were mentioned several times during the program, which is aired by 
more than 200 stations nationwide. 
?  McCloud reported that PBS Channel 45/49 is expanding its board of directors. As a 
result, YSU is naming two additional members to the board: Atty. Michael Harshman, 
Liberty, of Harshman and Bernard, and Andrea Wood of Poland, president of 
Youngstown Publishing Co. and publisher/editor of The Business Journal. They join 
Eugenia Atkinson as YSU?s community representatives on the board. 
 
Academic and Student Affairs Committee, June 2 
Millicent S. Counts, chair 
?  Cynthia Anderson, vice president for student affairs, reported that summer 2005 
enrollment is down by 17 students (0.36 percent) from last summer. Fall 2005 enrollment 
also is down slightly from the same period last year. ?Enrollment is very fluid,? she told 
the committee. ?Those numbers, by the time I get back to my office today, will be 
different.? Anderson also reported that the University Courtyard Apartments are at 92 
percent of capacity for fall 2005, while campus residence halls are at 67 percent of 
capacity. Anderson reviewed several enrollment statistics with the board, including 
projections that the 2005-06 high school graduating classes in Mahoning, Trumbull and 
Columbiana counties are expected to decline. She also reported that 12 sessions of SOAR 
(Student Orientation and Registration) will be conducted over the summer. Students take 
placement tests, learn about campus services (i.e. crime prevention, Center for Student 
Progress), meet their academic advisors and register for classes during the day-long 
process. 
?  Tom Maraffa, special assistant to the president, reported on a plan to better allocate 
student scholarship funds and to link those allocations to the university?s enrollment 
goals. Maraffa said 87 percent of YSU students received some form of financial aid 
(scholarships, work study, loans, grants), amounting to $84 million. Through scholarships 
and grants alone, the average YSU student pays 46 percent of the stated tuition.      
Maraffa presented a plan to increase the amount of money allocated for goal-based 
scholarships, with an emphasis on need and excellence from $5.75 million in fiscal year 
2005 to $8.67 million in fiscal year 2009. The plan would include big increases in the 
Martin Luther King Achievement Scholarship, the Pennsylvania Higher Education 
Assistance Award grant match and housing scholarships. Also included in the plan is 
increasing the Trustees Scholarship for high school valedictorians from $3,000 to $4,500 
annually, phasing out the $1,500 department scholarships awarded to continuing students 
for academic achievement and creating two new scholarships: A $1,500 award for 
students with mid-level ACT scores and a $500 retention award. 
?  Maraffa also updated the board on the university?s new conditional admissions policy 
aimed at helping academically at-risk new students succeed. Maraffa said the policy, 
which places academic restrictions and requirements on conditionally-admitted students, 
will be implemented in spring semester 2006, although the trial phase will begin in the 
fall semester 2005. 
?  Larry Johnson, dean of the Youngstown Early College, and Richard Bretz, special 
assistant to the provost, updated the board on the first year of YEC, a high school 
operating in partnership with the Youngstown City School District. ?We?ve had an 
exciting year,? Johnson said. Bretz reported that 43 of the 68 ninth-graders in the school 
enrolled in college classes during the spring semester, earning 75 college credits and a 
combined 2.9 grade point average. He also said the school posted a 95.6 percent 
attendance rate, the highest among the city?s public high schools. ?That?s very 
encouraging from my point of view,? he said. Committee members had questions about 
enrollment and costs. Trustee Donald Cagigas asked if there were any financial surprises 
with the school. ?None that have been called to my attention,? Sweet said. He added, 
?Having had experience with the launch of many new programs, this launch was as 
smooth as I?ve seen.? Trustee Schulick asked what are the major challenges facing the 
school in its second year. Bretz said the program had projected enrolling 75 to 100 
students a year, but enrollment for next year is only 68. ?Growing the enrollment is an 
issue,? he said. Schulick also asked about disciplinary problems at the school. Bretz 
reported ?a couple of minor incidents.? ?I don?t think we had nearly the number of issues 
that a number of people expected,? he added.  
?  The committee received a report showing an 11 percent increase in grants awarded to 
university faculty and staff in the third quarter of fiscal year 2005, from $461,438 to 
$512,969.  
?  Bege Bowers, interim provost, reported on new department chair appointments, noting 
that three long-time department chairs had retired ? John White, sociology and 
anthropology; Jim Morrison, psychology; and Charles Singler, geology. 
?  The committee also received a report on 13 faculty members who have been promoted to 
the rank of professor. The report also listed 11 faculty members who have been promoted 
to associate professor and one promoted to assistant professor. 
?  Bowers reported that about 150 people have inquired about the new bachelor of general 
studies degree, approved by the Ohio Board of Regents in April. The degree-completion 
program is designed primarily for adults who took college courses at some point in the 
past without completing a bachelor?s degree. Bowers also reported that the Northeastern 
Ohio Universities College of Medicine is developing a doctor of pharmacy degree that 
would be available to YSU students. She also thanked Ron Chordas, associate provost, 
the college deans, Sweet, board members and others for their help during her tenure as 
interim provost. ?I?ve really enjoyed working with you,? she said.