Alumni + Giving

Powerful network

When you earn your degree from the College of Creative Arts, you join an exceptional group of more than 101,000 living alumni who proudly call Youngstown State University their alma mater. From Grammy and Emmy Award winners to Disney World Imagineering Executives to Nashville Songwriter Hall of Fame members, College alumni continue to make a name for themselves.

Our highly accomplished Dana alumni may be found in fulfilling and broadly diverse careers and are Grammy Award winners, Billboard chart-topping songwriters and producers, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra members, award-wining arrangers and producers, and featured soloists around the world. They also hold positions in orchestras, military ensembles, and jazz groups, as well as university and public school music programs across the globe. You are now a member of our expansive Penguin family..