YSU seeks strategic plan

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

There are several opportunities for people to provide input into a plan aimed at leading Youngstown State University to 2020.

The goal is to have the strategic plan to the board of trustees for approval by the end of this year.

Ikram Khawaja, provost and vice president of academic affairs, and Eugene Grilli, vice president of administration and finance, are chairmen of the strategic planning committee.

The 40-plus-member committee includes representatives from the faculty, staff, students and the community who began meeting in July.

Members are divided into four subcommittees, or cornerstones, of the plan: student success, accountability and sustainability, urban-research transition and regional impact.

Input is being sought about those cornerstones.

Anonymous comments to focus-group questions may be posted at http://web.ysu.edu/contentm/easy_pages/view.php?page_id=199&sid=25&menu_id=480

People may attend focus group sessions for each of YSU’s six colleges:

• College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, in the Jones Room of Kilcawley Center.
• Bitonte College of Health and Human Services, 3 p.m. Monday, Cushwa Hall 3112.
• College of Fine and Performing Arts, 3 p.m., Monday, Bliss Hall 1220.
• Williamson College of Business Administration, 4 p.m. next Tuesday, Williamson 3415.
• Beeghly College of Education, 3 p.m., Sept. 15, Beeghly College 1302.
• College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, 3 p.m. Sept. 16, Moser 2400.

Public comments also may be made using Twitter or Facebook.

More information is available at http://web.ysu.edu/2020strategicplan.