Sweet: YSU may get short shrift

YOUNGSTOWN —  Dr. David C. Sweet is worried about the representation on a new commission created to study collaboration among five Northeast Ohio universities.

He’s concerned that the greater Youngstown area might get short shrift by a group that appears to have a Cleveland dominance, at least among its initial membership.

The state Legislature created the North East Ohio Universities Collaboration and Innovation Study Commission last fall to develop a plan and make recommendations on collaboration among Youngstown State University, Kent State University, the University of Akron, Cleveland State University and the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine.

It will be a 19-member panel and former Gov. Bob Taft made the five gubernatorial appointments before he left office in early January, naming five business executives to the group.

Sweet, president of YSU, pointed out that three of those executives are from the Cleveland area. One is from Akron, and the man named chairman of the commission is from Canton.

“It’s a Cleveland agenda that is being served,” Sweet recently told the YSU Academic Senate.

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