June 13, 2012: Board of Trustees Regular Meeting Minutes

Abstract

Presented are the minutes of the 308th meeting of the Youngstown State University Board of Trustees on June 13, 2012. This was a regular meeting. President Anderson stated her views on the University budget and the need to raise tuition. She also thanked the University and the YSU-FOP and YSU-APAS negotiating teams for their efforts over the summer. Committee reports followed. The Board resolved: to confer faculty emeritus status; to accept development gifts; to name the Kilcawley Center computer lab after Theta Chi fraternity; to approve the policy on construction and renovation projects; to approve the policy on key control; to modify the policy on contract compliance/administration; to modify the policy on the investment of YSU’s non-endowment and endowment funds; to modify the policy on asset allocation and other investment guidelines on non-endowment university funds; to approve changes to student tuition, fees, and other charges; to approve the policy on board oversight on intercollegiate athletics; to modify the policy on the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA); to modify the policy on leave of absence without pay and extended child-care for excluded professional/administrative staff; to modify the policy on leave without pay for extended serious health consideration or disability for excluded professional/administrative staff; to modify the policy on sick leave accrual, its use and conversion, for excluded professional/administrative and excluded classified staff; to modify the policy on maternity/parental leave (paid leave) for excluded professional/administrative staff; to modify the policy on the fringe benefits for excluded professional/administrative staff – fee remission program; to modify the policy on fringe benefits to part-time faculty; to ratify faculty/staff appointments; to confer emeritus status on professional/administrative staff; to extend benefits to excluded classified and unclassified intermittent law enforcement employees; and to ratify the YSU-FOP labor agreement.