PASSHE Institutions Merging

[ctrabs74]

Positive news out of Cheyney:

https://hbcugameday.com/2024/07/02/h...ion-probation/

(Yes, I know they're not a PSAC school anymore, but they are still part of PASSHE.)

[Bart]

Occasionally, I would really like to read something in The Press-Enterprise but it's not possible without a subscription.

I paid the $2 so you don't have to.

[iupgroundhog]

Commonwealth school has an expected deficit of $28 million, up from the projected $10 million in Feb.. That includes 160 job vacancies that won't be filled. Staffing has dropped from 2,460 in 2017 to 1,564 now. Projections are another $16.2 million shortfall next year.

The good news Bloomsburg's dorms will be near capacity for the first time since 2017. More freshman enrolling.

Occasionally, I would really like to read something in The Press-Enterprise but it's not possible without a subscription.

[Bart]

Commonwealth school has an expected deficit of $28 million, up from the projected $10 million in Feb.. That includes 160 job vacancies that won't be filled. Staffing has dropped from 2,460 in 2017 to 1,564 now. Projections are another $16.2 million shortfall next year.

The good news Bloomsburg's dorms will be near capacity for the first time since 2017. More freshman enrolling.

[Fightingscot82]

Well, they certainly haven't been under the radar in Harrisburg area media in recent years. They probably get about as much attention as any of the PASSHE schools here. At a time you don't see any coverage of Ship or Millersville sports on local media, there was so much publicity about the Harrisburg U. e-sports team a couple of years back that I was getting tired of hearing about it.

Yeah PennLive is really the only place I ever see covering Harrisburg U. I think they also have a pretty high profile concert series that I sometimes see in tour listings.

I have only met one person in my career who has any affiliation with them - and it was the son of an HU professor.

[Ship69]

Another PA private school struggling. Harrisburg University is one that often flies under the radar even in central PA.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2024/0...niversity.html

Well, they certainly haven't been under the radar in Harrisburg area media in recent years. They probably get about as much attention as any of the PASSHE schools here. At a time you don't see any coverage of Ship or Millersville sports on local media, there was so much publicity about the Harrisburg U. e-sports team a couple of years back that I was getting tired of hearing about it.

[Fightingscot82]

Another PA private school struggling. Harrisburg University is one that often flies under the radar even in central PA.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2024/0...niversity.html

[Tdobson]

I know a few teachers that graduated from there. I never heard of it until I met them.

[jrshooter]

Never heard of it.

It actually had a fairly robust D-III athletics offering. It used to be called Baptist Bible College, renamed about a decade ago.

It's in the suburbs of Scranton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarks_Summit_University

[IUPNation]

Another Pa. school closing: Clark Summit University.

Never heard of it.

[Bart]

Another Pa. school closing: Clark Summit University.

[Horror Child]

Yeah PA got rid of the one-party lever option on election day but it hasn't changed behavior much. A lot of rural PA voters choosing MAGA and right wing media positions over actual issues that affect them. The party of George HW Bush and Bob Dole is long gone. Eisenhower would be a Democrat today. Conservative media successfully converted that part to the right wing populist party. Ever notice that you never hear much about the deficit anymore? The goal isn't to be correct, its about defeating the opposition to be in power.

On that we agree.

[Ship69]

Here in the Yinzerlands they opened a casino (several years back now) at Westmoreland Mall (Greensburg). It BOOMS. Every day of the week. It has nice bars, a Guy Fieri (overpriced) restaurant, cool bars, etc.

The one in Pittsburgh near the Steelers stadium can be pretty sketchy at night. In turn, the one in Greensburg is making a killing.

I do wonder how the two in WV are doing now that these have opened in PA. I can't imagine very well compared to years past.

I'd rather just go out in my driveway and burn $2,000 or so and call it a day. Save the gas.

As Ace Rothstein famously said ... the players have no chance. In the end, they get it all.


BTW, I''ll be in Shippensburg here in a couple weeks. I plan to hit up the University Grille once again. Great stop.

Give me a holler when you think you might be around. If I'm not planned up that day, maybe we can have a beer.

[Fightingscot82]

Sad. PA legislature needs to turn more blue. If it did (it probably won't anytime soon), many of the people who vote Republican would be helped. Many of the communities who now vote Republican would be helped. Just sayin'.

Yeah PA got rid of the one-party lever option on election day but it hasn't changed behavior much. A lot of rural PA voters choosing MAGA and right wing media positions over actual issues that affect them. The party of George HW Bush and Bob Dole is long gone. Eisenhower would be a Democrat today. Conservative media successfully converted that part to the right wing populist party. Ever notice that you never hear much about the deficit anymore? The goal isn't to be correct, its about being defeating the opposition to be in power.

[iupgroundhog]

WVU just jacked tuition 5% and is trimming majors at its campuses. Tuition, housing, and meal plan for a PA resident is $42,000.

Competing PASSHE funding proposals for the budget. Democrats want a 6.5% funding increase to cover cost increases and not raise tuition for the 6th year in a row. Republicans have proposed no increase, meaning a combination of tuition increases (which Republicans will blast), budget cuts, and staff layoffs.

Sad. PA legislature needs to turn more blue. If it did (it probably won't anytime soon), many of the people who vote Republican would be helped. Many of the communities who now vote Republican would be helped. Just sayin'.