YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – Youngstown State College hit a milestone.

The YSU Basis recorded $24.1 million in donations within the 2021-2022 fiscal 12 months, the most important one-year complete within the college’s 114-year historical past.

In 2014, the 12 months earlier than Jim Tressel was named president, YSU raised $6.1 million. The following 12 months, it jumped to $13.Three million after which to $22.Three in 2016. In complete, the college has acquired $150.Three million since Tressel’s arrival, proving his capability to draw donors.

“The mixed efforts of President and First Woman Tressel, our donors, the campus neighborhood, and our gifted and hard-working Basis employees have helped elevate tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to ensure we offer the very best alternatives to our college students and the whole Mahoning Valley neighborhood,” mentioned Paul McFadden, YSU Basis president.

Tressel introduced final month that he’s stepping down as president of the college, elevating issues about future fundraising efforts.

The YSU “We See Tomorrow,” introduced in 2018, had a fundraising objective of $100 million and upped to $125 million two years later. The tip of the marketing campaign was introduced in September 2021 with a complete of 35,581 items amounting to $126.2 million, together with 40 items of $1 million or extra.

$1 million or extra donations have been acquired by the next in FY 2022:

• $5 million reward by Dr. Chander Kohli and his spouse, Karen, to call Kohli Corridor
• $1.5 million from Richard and Susan Sokolov to call the Sokolov Honors Faculty
• $1 million reward by Vince and Phyllis Bacon to assist the Watson Group Heart on campus