PASSHE Institutions Merging

[IUPNation]

You can say that all the campuses are in conservative ares. It is the students who create the campus environment and they could come from liberal places. The surprise is that 3 of the worst campuses merged into 1.

Maybe they get all the rural students while IUP and Slimey get students From urban areas.

[Bart]

Not a surprise. Most of the campuses are located in highly conservative areas.

You can say that all the campuses are in conservative ares. It is the students who create the campus environment and they could come from liberal places. The surprise is that 3 of the worst campuses merged into 1.

[Fightingscot82]

Cheyney may the only (then) PSAC I haven't been to for a game.

As I recall their football field was pretty rough, correct?

Everything IUPNation said is accurate. I was visiting in Chadds Ford a several years ago and realized we were so close so I drove to campus to make it to all 14 PASSHE campuses. It was rough. There were 3 types of buildings: early 19th century stone houses, characterless Cold War era buildings, and a couple brand new "brick and plastic" buildings. No landscaping anywhere. No little details that make a campus look nice. The football stadium reminded me of something you'd see in a poor city neighborhood park. Wood open bleacher seating. Unmaintained grass field. Old fashioned "light bulb" scoreboard.

[IUPNation]

Four of the six merged campuses considered hostile environments for black students.


"Three in Western Pennsylvania and one in north-central Pennsylvania as most problematic. They include the three campuses making up Pennsylvania Western University — Edinboro, Clarion and California — and Mansfield University, which is now a part of the newly merged Commonwealth University."

https://www.inquirer.com/education/p...-20240130.html

Not a surprise. Most of the campuses are located in highly conservative areas.

[Bart]

Four of the six merged campuses considered hostile environments for black students.


"Three in Western Pennsylvania and one in north-central Pennsylvania as most problematic. They include the three campuses making up Pennsylvania Western University — Edinboro, Clarion and California — and Mansfield University, which is now a part of the newly merged Commonwealth University."

https://www.inquirer.com/education/p...-20240130.html

[IUPNation]

Cheyney may the only (then) PSAC I haven't been to for a game.

As I recall their football field was pretty rough, correct?

Yeah...the stadium is rough and the campus was pretty worn down the last time I was there. I don't really have any reason to go on it but i do drive near it going to and from work. The last time I was at Cheyney was the last time IUP made a visit.

It's in an affluent area. Any developer would be licking their chops to get that land....since a lot of land between West Chester and Newtown Square is protected and not able to be developed. The former Edgemont Country Club was the last big swath of land that was up for sale in the general area and they are building nice high priced single homes and townhomes on the land. Housing in the Western Suburbs of Philadelphia is still in high demand...

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Cheyney is probably the most valuable land right now. They could knock that whole campus down and build a nice planned community...and it would sell out fast.

It's very prime real estate in highly desirable area.

Cheyney may the only (then) PSAC I haven't been to for a game.

As I recall their football field was pretty rough, correct?

[IUPNation]

AB is (was) so remote. I'm sure buyers weren't exactly lining up.

If some our our schools ever get to that point ... it would be interesting. Not exactly booming commercial real estate markets in places like Clarion, Mansfield, etc.

It almost makes me think about what these mega Olympic sites look like 10 years after the games.

Cheyney is probably the most valuable land right now. They could knock that whole campus down and build a nice planned community...and it would sell out fast.

It's very prime real estate in highly desirable area.

[IUPNation]

Actually, she went to IUP. LOL. Hey, any school crank out some beauts.

I knew that was going to be the answer when I asked it.

[Ship69]

Did she go to Slimey Pebble?

:-)

Actually, she went to IUP. LOL. Hey, any school crank out some beauts.

[Fightingscot82]

AB is (was) so remote. I'm sure buyers weren't exactly lining up.

If some our our schools ever get to that point ... it would be interesting. Not exactly booming commercial real estate markets in places like Clarion, Mansfield, etc.

It almost makes me think about what these mega Olympic sites look like 10 years after the games.

I'd compare it to Mansfield. Remote surrounded by not much and what was there was economically depressed.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

The Alderson Broaddus campus sold for $5 million. Pennies on the dollar. All the "stuff" gets auctioned off at a later date.

https://www.wvnews.com/business/elki...08fa63141.html

That's not a lot of money to recoup against the debt burden on the struggling PASSHE campuses.

AB is (was) so remote. I'm sure buyers weren't exactly lining up.

If some our our schools ever get to that point ... it would be interesting. Not exactly booming commercial real estate markets in places like Clarion, Mansfield, etc.

It almost makes me think about what these mega Olympic sites look like 10 years after the games.

[Fightingscot82]

Here is an article from the IG regarding Shapiro's higher ed plan. Hopefully, you can navigate the paywall

https://www.indianagazette.com/news/shapiro-proposes-bringing-together-passhe-community-colleges/article_d32a05ef-4bf3-5bac-aff4-f7f39683fe34.html#tncms-source=login

The reactions from the state rep from Indiana and the other Republicans blow me away. They simply never grasp that spending for education is an investment. If the PA economy needs anything, it needs this. The PA Republicans thinking is so disappointing and misguided.

Having grown up in Lock Haven and attending college in Indiana, I read these local papers online. All you ever see on the pages is about some organization receiving a government grant for this or that and they are so happy. Yet, this grant money to help bad local economies like Lock Haven and Indiana is made possible by Democrats. The locals still vote Republican. Go figure.

Sorry for the politics but it is too intertwined with the topic to ignore.

You're right though. Pittman is bullish on giving IUP more funding, then just days later celebrates landing $2 million for the IUP med school.

[IUPNation]

The Alderson Broaddus campus sold for $5 million. Pennies on the dollar. All the "stuff" gets auctioned off at a later date.

https://www.wvnews.com/business/elki...08fa63141.html

That's not a lot of money to recoup against the debt burden on the struggling PASSHE campuses.

I doesn’t help when the school is located in a town nobody is flocking to move to…

Cheyney would fetch a nice haul.

[Fightingscot82]

The Alderson Broaddus campus sold for $5 million. Pennies on the dollar. All the "stuff" gets auctioned off at a later date.

https://www.wvnews.com/business/elki...08fa63141.html

That's not a lot of money to recoup against the debt burden on the struggling PASSHE campuses.