Youngstown State Hired More Administrators and Hiked Tuition as Student Enrollment Dropped
“Amid these changes, a growing effort to focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion was embedded at the public, Ohio-based institution.”
The good news is that the school has a new leader who might turn this around.
The College Fix reports:
As Youngstown State student enrollment dropped, admin-student ratio, tuition increased
Over a recent four year period, Youngstown State University’s full-time undergraduate enrollment fell almost 16 percent — even as the ratio of administrators to students grew more than 13 percent and tuition was hiked for four consecutive years, an analysis conducted by The College Fix found.
Amid these changes, a growing effort to focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion was embedded at the public, Ohio-based institution.
It may be one reason why Youngstown State University’s Board of Trustees recently selected Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson, a staunch conservative, as the school’s new president despite major objections from some faculty and others.
“Preventing Johnson from altering the culture and curriculum at YSU, as other right-wing ideologues have attempted to do in states like Florida, Kansas, and Alabama, ‘will take great courage’ on the part of the trustees,” YSU trustee Molly Seals, the lone nay vote against Johnson, told the Daily Beast.
Johnson is scheduled to begin his tenure as president in February 2024.
He takes over a campus that, during the 2021-22 academic year, had 132 full-time administrators and support staff per 1,000 full-time undergraduate students — an increase from 122 in 2017 — according to the most recent data provided by the university to the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.
Administrators and support staff are composed of management, student and academic affairs divisions, IT, public relations, administrative support, maintenance, legal, and other non-academic departments, according to The College Fix analysis.
After much thought and prayerful deliberation, I have accepted the offer to lead Youngstown State University and will not be seeking an 8th term in Congress. As I’ve stated previously, I wasn’t looking for another job, because I love the one I have serving the people of Eastern…
— Rep. Bill Johnson (@RepBillJohnson) November 21, 2023
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Here is a good start:
1. Get rid of the DEI office and its administrators
https://ysu.edu/office-diversity-equity-and-inclusion
https://ysu.edu/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/diversity-ysu
2. Get rid of the gender studies administrators and instructors.
https://wgs.ysu.edu/
3. Make it clear that all hiring will be done on a strictly merit basis based on teaching and research, not on BS such as “Ability to contribute to the diversity, cultural sensitivity, and excellence of the University community through teaching.”
4. Abide strictly by its own nondiscrimination statement, “Youngstown State University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, disability, age, religion or veteran/military status in its programs or activities.”
That would be a good start.
They appear to be doing this on purpose — it appears to be a simple debt trap con game that preys on the naïveté of.inexperienced families.
It is heinous.
Youngstown State : most popular major GENERAL STUDIES
Youngstown State graduation rate ~42%
(F o r t y T w o Percent!)
Youngstown State cost averages $40,000-$50,000
Half the students take on federal debt in order to attend
Half the loans do not perform.
(Source:
college scorecard dot ed dot gov ?year?)
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These kids need jobs.
They don’t need this life-crushing scam