Leslie Cochran Youngstown State University Y oungstown State University is a community within the larger Youngstown Metropolitan area. As an integral part of the community, the University continually seeks to improve the quality of living not only within the YSU community, but throughout the area surrounding the campus and the Youngstown community in general. The University has also pledged its support to work with community leaders for the betterment of the entire community. Through the implementation of Campus 2000, the University has developed plans and strategies to meet its long range campus environment goals and its short term campus development objectives.
Growth implies land acquisition for parking and facilities as well.
These academic objectives are completed by the University's commitment to increase the number of students living within walking distance of the campus. The University has already initiated an aggressive plan to increase student enrollments not only from its traditional base of local high schools. There is an essential need for a campus-community partnership among the University, the City of Youngstown, local and regional economic development agencies and area businesses that promotes a shared vision and cooperative spirit of leadership, promotion and development of the neighborhood areas immediately adjacent to campus. Through such cooperative efforts, the resources of all parties can be combined and directed toward the creation of a healthy educational, economic and community environment. The goal is to attract commercial businesses to different neighborhoods surrounding the campus.