Governor names student trustee

Rocco L. Core of Mineral Ridge, Ohio, a student at Youngstown State University studying Nursing and Sociology, has been appointed a student member of the YSU Board of Trustees by Gov. John Kasich.

His two-year term runs through April 30, 2020.

Core, expected to graduate in Spring 2020, has served as a member of the YSU Academic Senate, Student Nursing Association, Physical Plant Advisory Council, Textbook Affordability Committee, Bookstore Advisory Committee, Integrated Technology Committee, Academic Standards Committee, Student Government Association, Student Conduct Board and has participated in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.

He also represented YSU at the Propel Ohio Collegiate Leadership Summit. He works at the Cleveland Clinic Akron General on the Crisis Intervention Inpatient Psychiatry Unit as a nurse technician, and for the Trumbull County Board of Elections as a presiding judge and a voting location manager. Volunteering experiences include various animal shelters and other nonprofit organizations.