Community college plan hits a snag

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University’s community college initiative has hit a roadblock in Columbus.

Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut, during a meeting with YSU officials June 12, called for a six-month delay of the university’s ambition to place a community college in the Mahoning Valley.

In the meantime, YSU officials will meet with Fingerhut for monthly planning sessions, said Nathan Ritchy, YSU’s interim associate provost.

“The challenge in some sense is patience,” Ritchy told the academic affairs committee of YSU’s Board of Trustees on Tuesday. “What I thought today would be a recommendation of ‘let’s move forward’ or ‘let’s not move forward,’ turns out to be: ‘we need a lot more planning.’”

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