: UCM News
Podolefsky one of 4 finalists for Youngstown State presidency
Dec 17, 2009, 6:47 AM
WARRENSBURG, Mo.--UCM President Aaron Podolefsky is one of four finalists for the presidency of Youngstown State University in Ohio.
The others are C. Jack Maynard, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Indiana State University; Cheryl J. Norton, president of Southern Connecticut State University; and Cynthia Anderson, vice president for student affairs at Youngstown State.
The board will schedule campus interviews with all four in mid-January and expects to name a successor to David C. Sweet in February or early March, said Scott Schulick, board chairman.
Sweet, YSU’s sixth president, is retiring June 30, 2010, after serving 10 years as university president.
Youngstown State is an urban university with about 14,000 students, located in eastern Ohio, serving the Youngstown/Warren/Akron and Cleveland areas. It offers more than 100 undergraduate majors, 35 at the masters level and two doctoral programs--in education and physical therapy.
It has a $12 million, 70,000 square-foot recreation and wellness center--which includes a five-story climbing wall--that opened in 2005. Its student union includes a coffeehouse and pub.
YSU has a full-time faculty of 427, of which more than 80 percent have the highest degrees in their fields; it also employs 430 part-time faculty.
In sports, Youngstown State is a Division 1 school (Div. 1AA in football), and has won for national championships since 1994-5.
The university's endowment is about $170 million. YSU is one of 11 public universities in Ohio, which are governed by the Ohio Board of Regents, whose members are appointed by the governor, with approval of the Ohio Senate.
The others are C. Jack Maynard, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Indiana State University; Cheryl J. Norton, president of Southern Connecticut State University; and Cynthia Anderson, vice president for student affairs at Youngstown State.
The board will schedule campus interviews with all four in mid-January and expects to name a successor to David C. Sweet in February or early March, said Scott Schulick, board chairman.
Sweet, YSU’s sixth president, is retiring June 30, 2010, after serving 10 years as university president.
Youngstown State is an urban university with about 14,000 students, located in eastern Ohio, serving the Youngstown/Warren/Akron and Cleveland areas. It offers more than 100 undergraduate majors, 35 at the masters level and two doctoral programs--in education and physical therapy.
It has a $12 million, 70,000 square-foot recreation and wellness center--which includes a five-story climbing wall--that opened in 2005. Its student union includes a coffeehouse and pub.
YSU has a full-time faculty of 427, of which more than 80 percent have the highest degrees in their fields; it also employs 430 part-time faculty.
In sports, Youngstown State is a Division 1 school (Div. 1AA in football), and has won for national championships since 1994-5.
The university's endowment is about $170 million. YSU is one of 11 public universities in Ohio, which are governed by the Ohio Board of Regents, whose members are appointed by the governor, with approval of the Ohio Senate.
