YSU graduate first to accomplish feat

YSU graduate first to accomplish feat

YOUNGSTOWN

Kelly L. Colwell didn’t realize until this afternoon just what a pioneer he was about to become.

He knew he was going to be the first person to graduate from Youngstown State University’s new online master’s degree program in respiratory care. What he didn’t know was that he would actually become the first person in Ohio to accomplish the feat.

“That’s pretty exciting,” the 52-year-old Boardman man said. “I’m really proud of that. We were just forward thinking and trying to get YSU’s program up and running, not really realizing it was going to set the stage for the rest of the state.”

Colwell was among more than 600 people who received degrees today during commencement ceremonies in YSU’s Beeghly Center.

Read the full story in Monday’s Vindicator.