Student Futures and Lifelong Learning
Living Our Mission
An Institution of Opportunity: YSU inspires individuals, enhances futures, and enriches lives.
Student Futures and Lifelong Learning
An Institution of Opportunity: YSU inspires individuals, enhances futures, and enriches lives.
As a student-centered university, Youngstown State University’s mission is to provide innovative lifelong learning opportunities that will inspire individuals, enhance futures and enrich lives. YSU inspires individuals by cultivating a curiosity for life-long learning; enhances the futures of our students by empowering them to discover, disseminate and apply their knowledge; and enriches the region by fostering collaboration and the advancement of civic, scientific, and technological development. YSU’s culture of enrichment flourishes in our diverse, accessible, and quality education.
Stories of Student Futures and Lifelong Learning
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Members of the Youngstown State University’s American Foundry Society Chapter attended the MAGMA North America Users Group meeting in Itasca, Illinois. Victoria Mathews, a mechanical engineering major in the college of Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics, presented her research on a 3D...
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The Youngstown State University Society for Human Resource Management Student Chapter, in partnership with the Western Reserve Chapter of SHRM, hosted its third annual Human Resource Mixer on Oct. 14 at Cassese's MVR Restaurant near campus. The event brought together HR professionals, students and...
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Students and prospective students can explore a range of veterinary and animal-related careers during Youngstown State University Pre Veterinary Society’s Career Night 6 to 8 p.m., Nov. 6 in DeBartolo Hall 132 on the YSU campus. YSU alumni working as veterinarians, veterinary students, pathologists...
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Ten Youngstown State University students recently attend the Society of Petroleum Engineers Eastern Regional Meeting at Oglebay Resort in Wheeling, West Virginia, with Vahid Atashbari, assistant professor in the Rayen School of Engineering. The meeting brought students and professionals together for...
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Student Spotlight Youngstown State University's admissions office is where all students’ journeys start, and working hard to keep it running is Reagan Seidel, a senior studying human resource management. Taking prospective and incoming students on campus tours is one of Seidel’s primary...
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A student-driven idea has grown into a signature experiential learning opportunity within the Sokolov Honors College. The third annual Honors Pre-Health Research Symposium, slated for Thursday, Oct. 29, from 1 to 4 p.m., brings together students, faculty, staff, alumni, healthcare professionals and...
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Student Spotlight Youngstown State University student Nadia Zarbaugh has built her college experience around academics, leadership, service and opportunities that extend beyond the classroom. A biological sciences major on the BaccMed track major from Poland, Ohio, Zarbaugh is a member of the...
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Student Spotlight When Krish Patel arrived at Youngstown State University, finance was not his major. Now, as he prepares to graduate in December with a degree in financial management from the Williamson College of Business Administration, Patel has turned his YSU experiences, campus involvement and...
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The Youngstown State University Chapter of the American Foundry Society poured 16 aluminum parts on Oct. 1 for a Mechanical Engineering Technology class project, giving students hands-on experience with the casting process. Students poured the aluminum into four sand molds at Trumbull Foundry and...
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Dr. Chander M. Kohli, a prominent local neurosurgeon and former chair of the Youngstown State University Board of Trustees, has donated $1.25 million to YSU’s Centofanti School of Nursing, located within the Bitonte College of Health and Human Services, in honor of his late wife, Karen Kohli. In...