Youngstown State University has joined other northeast Ohio universities in a program with the goal of helping students with unsettled debt.

The program will help students with unsettled debt re-enroll into the university and complete their degrees.

It focuses on "stranded credits," academic credits that students have earned but cannot access because their former university due to an unpaid balance.

The pilot hopes to begin outreach to the students in the spring of 2022. Students may begin to re-enroll through the compact as early as Fall of 2022.