YSU official: Fall enrollment should surpass 15,000

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University expects student enrollment to surpass the 15,000 mark this fall.

That’s well above the 14,682 students who enrolled in fall 2009 which was the highest number on campus in 17 years.

Jack Fahey, interim vice president for student affairs and university ombudsman, told the university’s board of trustees today that projections show a 2.6 enrollment increase over last year. It should reach 15,058 this fall, he said.

That level of growth should generate $2.6 million in new tuition revenue, he said, noting that $800,000 of that amount will go to the members of the Association of Classified Employees union under terms of an enrollment incentive clause negotiated in the union’s last contract. The money will be divided among about 400 union members.

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