{"id":139280,"date":"2023-12-20T00:07:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T05:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=139280"},"modified":"2023-12-20T09:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:24:14","slug":"as-youngstown-state-student-enrollment-dropped-admin-student-ratio-tuition-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/as-youngstown-state-student-enrollment-dropped-admin-student-ratio-tuition-increased\/","title":{"rendered":"As Youngstown State student enrollment dropped, admin-student ratio, tuition increased"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANALYSIS: Staff showed growing focus on DEI, but new president may reverse trend<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Over a recent four year period, Youngstown State University\u2019s 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<\/em> found.<\/p>\n

Amid these changes, a growing effort to focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion was embedded at the public, Ohio-based institution.<\/p>\n

It may be one reason why Youngstown State University\u2019s Board of Trustees recently selected Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson, a staunch conservative, as the school\u2019s new president despite major objections from some faculty and others.<\/p>\n

\u201cPreventing 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, \u2018will take great courage\u2019 on the part of the trustees,\u201d YSU trustee Molly Seals, the lone nay vote against Johnson, told<\/a> the Daily Beast.<\/em><\/p>\n

Johnson is scheduled to begin his tenure as president in February 2024.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/em> analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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After much thought and prayerful deliberation, I have accepted the offer to lead Youngstown State University and will not be seeking an 8th term in Congress. As I\u2019ve stated previously, I wasn\u2019t looking for another job, because I love the one I have serving the people of Eastern\u2026<\/p>\n

— Rep. Bill Johnson (@RepBillJohnson) November 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n