YSU commencement Saturday to add more graduates to record year

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

If commencements at Youngstown State University this past academic year looked a little crowded, they were.

YSU awarded 2,147 degrees in the 2013-14 academic year — the most since the 1985 to 1986 school year.

YSU celebrates summer commencement at 10 a.m. Saturday in Beeghly Center when another 392 candidates for degrees will participate: three doctoral, 118 masters, 238 bachelors and 33 associate degrees.

Jack Fahey, vice president for student affairs, said the high number of graduates is a reflection of increasing enrollments at the university in the first decade of the 2000s. But he pointed to two other factors.

Read what those are in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.