September 7, 2017: Board of Trustees Regular Meeting Minutes

Abstract

Presented are the minutes of the 352nd meeting of the Youngstown State University Board of Trustees. This was a regular meeting. The oath of office was administered to new trustees Capri S. Cafaro and Molly S. Seals and to new student trustee Lexi E. Rager. In his report, President Tressel said that he appreciated the university community’s “patience with urgency” over the past three years as major challenges have been confronted and ad-dressed. The President noted that during this period the university has successfully stabilized student enrollment; balanced the budget; filled housing, built housing, and filled housing again; graduated the second-largest class in university history; attracted record-setting fundraising; confronted and made progress addressing campus culture concerns; dramatically improved the campus roadway infrastructure and is no longer dependent on third-party suppliers for the university’s energy needs. Committee reports were heard. The Board resolved to modify “The Student Code of Conduct” Policy; to modify the Adjunct Faculty Policy; to authorize the conferral of an honorary degree upon Dr. Pamela Browner White; to rescind policies on Agreements, Educational Partnerships and Related Arrangements, the Establishing, Altering, or Abolishing Educational, Research, and Public Service Centers, Institutes, and Laboratories, and to approve the policy on Partnerships, Centers, and Related Arrangements; to approve reorganization to create the Office of College Access and Transitions; to accept Alumni Engagement and WYSU memberships: to modify the policy on University construction/renovation projects; to modify the Key Control Policy; to approve interfund transfers; to ratify personnel actions in Athletics; to modify and retitle the policy on workplace violence; to modify and retitle the policy on background checks for potential employees; to approve the selection of Jennifer A. Pintar for the post of Associate Provost for Academic Administration; to approve the selection of James A. Yukech for the position of Associate Vice President for Technology and Chief Information Officer; and to ratify personnel actions regarding professional/administrative staff and faculty. In addition, the Board passed resolutions in memoriam to Frank Watson and Harry Meshel. President Tressel also mentioned the names of those members of the University community who recently died. There was no new business.