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 increasedOver 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.
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