PASSHE Institutions Merging

[Fightingscot82]

The governor is going to announce a proposal to merge PASSHE and the Pennsylvania Commission for Community Colleges, which represents the 15 state-funded community colleges in the state. If this gains any momentum, it will take some time to process. PASSHE's ten schools are state-owned and operated. The community colleges are state-funded but not state-owned and their funding models are all different. Many get annual county appropriations, some get school district funding, etc. But I agree that these two entities should be working together, not in exclusivity.

[iupgroundhog]

The governor is going to announce a proposal to merge PASSHE and the Pennsylvania Commission for Community Colleges, which represents the 15 state-funded community colleges in the state. If this gains any momentum, it will take some time to process. PASSHE's ten schools are state-owned and operated. The community colleges are state-funded but not state-owned and their funding models are all different. Many get annual county appropriations, some get school district funding, etc. But I agree that these two entities should be working together, not in exclusivity.

Who or what owns the community colleges? They're just independent non-profit entities?

[IUPbigINDIANS]

PASSHE is gifting Clarion's Venango campus in Oil City to a regional entity. According to the story this will save PennWest approximately $1.6 million a year in operating costs plus remove about $6 million in planned renovation needs.

https://www.exploreclarion.com/2024/...oogle_vignette

Learn something everyday ... no idea they had a Venango campus.

I fear the mother ship may soon become the nicest $75m basketball YMCA court in history.

I spent some time up there when IUP played there this past season. It is not the Clarion of my days I can tell you that much. It's dead.

[IUPNation]

Learn something everyday ... no idea they had a Venango campus.

I fear the mother ship may soon become the nicest $75m basketball YMCA court in history.

I spent some time up there when IUP played there this past season. It is not the Clarion of my days I can tell you that much. It's dead.

No need for branch campuses now

[IUPbigINDIANS]

No need for branch campuses now

Imagine a day when IUP would send kids to Kittanning.

They are going to be turning those fancy dorms in Indiana into B&Bs lol.

[Fightingscot82]

Who or what owns the community colleges? They're just independent non-profit entities?

I assume so. I can't think of any other arrangement unless they're an extension of a county government.

[IUPNation]

Imagine a day when IUP would send kids to Kittanning.

They are going to be turning those fancy dorms in Indiana into B&Bs lol.

It was either Kitty U for a year or Summer/Jan for me in 84. I went Summer/January. Now I doubt they even do Summer/January.

[IUPNation]

Montgomery County Community College has over 12000 students.

Just sayin…

[IUPbigINDIANS]

It was either Kitty U for a year or Summer/Jan for me in 84. I went Summer/January. Now I doubt they even do Summer/January.

IUP was a different world. It's so calm now. Lol. Night and day different from the 80s and 90s.

[IUPNation]

IUP was a different world. It's so calm now. Lol. Night and day different from the 80s and 90s.

They didn’t have space for everyone then. Now they have too much..

[Fightingscot82]

It was either Kitty U for a year or Summer/Jan for me in 84. I went Summer/January. Now I doubt they even do Summer/January.

No, and anymore schools don't even do early start for students on the cusp (which is stupid). They'll bring them in with everyone else in August but make them take remedial courses that don't count toward their degree. If the student doesn't pass the remedial classes, they have to retake and it screws up the spring schedule (and further delays degree completion). But those early arrival programs make faculty work in the summer and cost more than the remedial classes. Not an IUP thing - its a national trend for those of us accepting kids academically unprepared for college level math and English.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

No, and anymore schools don't even do early start for students on the cusp (which is stupid). They'll bring them in with everyone else in August but make them take remedial courses that don't count toward their degree. If the student doesn't pass the remedial classes, they have to retake and it screws up the spring schedule (and further delays degree completion). But those early arrival programs make faculty work in the summer and cost more than the remedial classes. Not an IUP thing - its a national trend for those of us accepting kids academically unprepared for college level math and English.

Those are the students who always get stuck with that one math professor who treats freshman College Algebra like some sort of NASA high-level course.

[iupgroundhog]

No, and anymore schools don't even do early start for students on the cusp (which is stupid). They'll bring them in with everyone else in August but make them take remedial courses that don't count toward their degree. If the student doesn't pass the remedial classes, they have to retake and it screws up the spring schedule (and further delays degree completion). But those early arrival programs make faculty work in the summer and cost more than the remedial classes. Not an IUP thing - its a national trend for those of us accepting kids academically unprepared for college level math and English.

Who needs math and English when you have AI?

[IUPNation]

No, and anymore schools don't even do early start for students on the cusp (which is stupid). They'll bring them in with everyone else in August but make them take remedial courses that don't count toward their degree. If the student doesn't pass the remedial classes, they have to retake and it screws up the spring schedule (and further delays degree completion). But those early arrival programs make faculty work in the summer and cost more than the remedial classes. Not an IUP thing - it’s a national trend for those of us accepting kids academically unprepared for college level math and English.

I was Summer/January because I didn’t do SAT tests well but I had above average grades in high school. I was better off not answering the questions on the SAT which was not logical to me.

[Fightingscot82]

I was Summer/January because I didn’t do SAT tests well but I had above average grades in high school. I was better off not answering the questions on the SAT which was not logical to me.

Now that SAT is optional you could have started in August and rolled the dice on your success.