YSU business center gets state designation


November 1, 2011 at 12:00a.m.

YSU business center gets state designation

youngstown

Ohio Chancellor Jim Petro is expected to announce Wednesday that Youngstown State University’s Williamson College of Business Administration Center for Excellence for International Business has been designated an Ohio Center of Excellence in Cultural and Societal Transformation.

The announcement is expected at 2:30 p.m. in the atrium of YSU’s Williamson College of Business Administration.

With the designation, WCBA joins five other statewide centers for excellence. The others are in advanced energy, biomedicine and health care; agriculture, food production and bioproducts; enabling technologies; advanced materials and sensors; and advanced transportation and aerospace.

School of Autism plans open house

Youngstown

The Potential Development Program, an organization that serves preschool and school-age children with developmental delays, behavioral disorders and autism- spectrum disorder, has an open house at its School of Autism, 880 E. Indianola Ave., from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday.

The School of Autism is a charter school that offers classes to students in kindergarten through eighth grade and has 50 students enrolled.

There will be no admission charge to attend the open house.

Tours of the classrooms, new playground and facility will be ongoing, and refreshments will be available in the cafeteria.

For more information about Potential Development, visit Potential Development Program on Facebook, the agency’s website www.4pdp.org or call Shellie Sabel, development officer, at 330-746-7641.

Public meeting set on oil, gas drilling

NORTH JACKSON

A town-hall informational meeting on Utica Shale drilling and leasing will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Jackson Township Administration Building, 10613 Mahoning Ave.

The meeting will focus on landowner advocacy and will cover information about oil and gas drilling in Mahoning County, the leasing process, landowner groups, legal obligations on leases and protective lease terms for landowners. For more information, call 330-953-2035.