YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Youngstown State University’s Williamson College of Business Administration and The Business Journal are partnering to help connect students and faculty with local businesses.

“We have so many incredible businesses that students are just not aware of, and that’s one of the … great, valuable services The Business Journal provides is to give us all that chance to read about businesses that we might otherwise not be familiar with …,” said Betty Jo Licata, interim dean of the Williamson College.

Andrea Wood, president and publisher of The Business Journal, said the partnership is another way for the publication to support the community.

“We’re committed to do what we can to retain top talent for businesses in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys,” she said.