Provost calls YSU climate issues 'long-standing'

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University Provost Martin Abraham said the challenges identified in the most recent Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Great Colleges to Work For” Campus Climate Survey results are "long-standing" and identified as early as 2008.

The most recent, 2017, results were lower than they were in the 2016 results., with about 46 percent of those surveyed said they are less positive about the workplace climate improving since the 2016 survey and about 29 percent reported feeling less positive about senior leadership taking action based on the 2016 results.

The questions or statements on the survey were ranked “more” or “less positive” by employees. For example, “shared governance” and “senior leadership” were ranked as the two least-positive themes.

"The good news is we recognize those challenges and are working to improve those areas, but the bad news is they are still standing issues," Abraham said. "I do believe we are making progress in those areas."