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Pete's Trees
For the eighth consecutive year, the Arbor Day Foundation has designated YSU a Tree Campus USA. Out of nearly 4,000 universities nationwide, less than 250 achieve such status. Above, Pete stands among two White Oak trees by Maag Library. The trees, which have trunks measuring nearly four feet in diameter, as suspected to be the oldest on campus. In all, the university has nearly 2,000 trees representing 78 species.
Success leader
Claire M. Berardini has been named the new associate provost for Student Success. An independent consultant at Albright College in Reading, Pa., Berardini previously was an executive consultant at Noel-Levitz and dean of Student Success and First-Year Experience at Alvernia University in Reading. She replaces Mike Reagle, who resigned the position earlier this year. Berardini will leader the Division of Student Success, including Career and Academic Advising, Testing, Center for Student Progress, First-Year Student Services and the Student Counseling Center.
On a Mission
Learn more about YSU’s mission at a new webpage, “Mission: Who We Are. Where We’re Going.” The page at www.ysu.edu/accreditation/mission, breaks the university’s mission statement into 10 key and overarching words/themes and provides real life stories that show the university’s accomplishments in those areas. The page is designed to help us all better understand and more actively carry out our mission.
Heritage Wall dedicated
Some of the most prominent YSU leaders of the past half century came to campus this spring to mark the dedication of the new YSU Foundation Heritage Park.
From Barbara Brothers, retired dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, to Phil Hirsch, retired director of Kilcawley Center and executive director of Administrative Services, dozens of recipients of the YSU Heritage Award attended the ceremony at the park, located on Elm Street just north of Kilcawley Center.
The park features a wall that includes the engraved names of the 73 individuals who have received the Heritage Award, considered to be the highest award given to former university employees.
“The list of recipients of the Heritage Award is a literal who’s who of YSU,” said Paul McFadden, YSU Foundation president.
"As a former administrator, recipient of the Heritage Award and someone who loves YSU, I cannot say how pleased I am that the university and the YSU Foundation has provided this special place to honor its most outstanding employees," Hirsch said.
The park also recognizes the 50th anniversary of the YSU Foundation, which funded the $100,000 park project.
In the photo above, posing in front of the new Heritage Wall at YSU are Heritage Award winners, from the left, Steve Hanzely, Lou Zona, Hugh Earnheardt, Barbara Brothers, George Beelen, Janet DelBene, Tom Kane, K.J. Satrum, Tom Shipka, Phil Hirsch, Frank Tarantine, Charles McBriarty and Jim Tressel.