YSU leaders welcome Class of 2014, celebrate university’s growth

Staff Report

YOUNGSTOWN

Administrators, deans, faculty and student leaders welcomed one of the largest classes in the history of Youngstown State University to campus today.

Administrator Jack Fahey told hundreds of freshmen gathered at Beeghly Center for the university’s annual Freshman Convocation that one of them would represent “the happy milestone” of being the 15,000th student enrolled for fall semester, which begins today.

“This fall’s enrollment is above 15,000 for the first time in over 20 years,” he told them.

Fahey, interim vice president for Student Affairs and Ombudsman, said the 15,000-plus enrollment is a milestone for the university’s prosperity, for northeastern Ohio’s resurgence and for each student’s ability to flourish.

YSU President Cynthia Anderson thanked students for choosing YSU —”the greatest university in Ohio and beyond” — for their undergraduate education.

“YSU is the perfect-sized university,” she said, adding that it’s big enough to offer many of the programs of “mega-universities” but small enough to offer one-on-one support.

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