YSU Ceremony to dedicate new welcome center

The new center will be the launching grounds for campus tours.
YOUNGSTOWN -- It's only appropriate that the owners of a car dealership would be the principal players in financing a new "showroom" for Youngstown State University.
YSU officially opens its new Robert and Marilyn Sweeney Welcome Center with a dedication ceremony this afternoon. The Sweeneys, of North Lima, are the owners of Buick Youngstown and gave $250,000 to YSU.
"It is support like this that allows the university to continue making changes that are necessary to serve students as efficiently and effectively as possible," YSU President David Sweet said.
"The center will serve as the front door of the university -- a place to welcome potential students and their families," said Dr. Cynthia Anderson, YSU vice president for student affairs.
Details: The center is at University Plaza and Bryson Street in the former Dana Hall, which underwent a $1 million renovation and addition.
The center includes rooms for individual student advisement, group meeting rooms, highlights of university program offerings and a lower level to accommodate admissions process meetings, records and storage.
Sweet said the center is another step in YSU's effort to make the campus more "student-friendly and accessible to the public."
"One way of putting YSU's best foot forward is to show prospective students and their families state-of-the-art efficiencies, which a new and enlarged reception area can provide," Marilyn Sweeney said.