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Originally posted by iupgroundhog View Post
A merger with Temple might be the best thing but I doubt it happens.
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Pittsburgh Technical College is closing.
https://triblive.com/news/education-...lege-to-close/
Not even a week after Triangle Tech announced their closure. When you read that colleges are down because kids are choosing trade school, you know that's a lie. There's just too few high school students.
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View PostPittsburgh Technical College is closing.
https://triblive.com/news/education-...lege-to-close/
Not even a week after Triangle Tech announced their closure. When you read that colleges are down because kids are choosing trade school, you know that's a lie. There's just too few high school students.
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Originally posted by IUPNation View Post
The mechanic training school in the office complex section of my development is full of cars. The students come from all over and they live in an apartment complex about 5 miles north of it…
PTI/PTC was thriving for a while. They leased an entire apartment complex adjacent to the Mall at Robinson near the Pittsburgh airport. But I question the ROI on these trade schools using either a for-profit model or even just the college pricing model. The cost of operating any college is immense and not only are people less willing to take on the cost/debt to get that education, there are fewer in general to draw from. Pittsburgh has lost art schools, culinary schools, cosmetology schools, and trade schools in the last several years. Yet the union apprentice programs always have vacancies. The "kids are choosing the trades over college" narrative just isn't true.
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View Post
I can see that. Mechanics need such specific training anymore and its an attractive field for some. Its not a job that you can just pick up with an opportunity to learn and passion for cars.
PTI/PTC was thriving for a while. They leased an entire apartment complex adjacent to the Mall at Robinson near the Pittsburgh airport. But I question the ROI on these trade schools using either a for-profit model or even just the college pricing model. The cost of operating any college is immense and not only are people less willing to take on the cost/debt to get that education, there are fewer in general to draw from. Pittsburgh has lost art schools, culinary schools, cosmetology schools, and trade schools in the last several years. Yet the union apprentice programs always have vacancies. The "kids are choosing the trades over college" narrative just isn't true.
The automotive school by me is literally called UTI. But they have a lot of students and it’s a big building. It sits next to the Turnpike right off the Downingtown exit.
Our schools should size the day and open trade schools in unused building. Offer crossover classes like accounting and such. You can fill dorms. It might lessen the resentment those in the trades have for those who went to college.
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Originally posted by IUPNation View Post
We used to see commercials for trade schoools on TV back in the day. Not so much now. Pennco Tech always advertised. I wonder if they are even open?
The automotive school by me is literally called UTI. But they have a lot of students and it’s a big building. It sits next to the Turnpike right off the Downingtown exit.
Our schools should size the day and open trade schools in unused building. Offer crossover classes like accounting and such. You can fill dorms. It might lessen the resentment those in the trades have for those who went to college.Cal U (Pa.) Class of 2014
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Originally posted by IUPNation View Post
We used to see commercials for trade schoools on TV back in the day. Not so much now. Pennco Tech always advertised. I wonder if they are even open?
The automotive school by me is literally called UTI. But they have a lot of students and it’s a big building. It sits next to the Turnpike right off the Downingtown exit.
Our schools should size the day and open trade schools in unused building. Offer crossover classes like accounting and such. You can fill dorms. It might lessen the resentment those in the trades have for those who went to college.
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View Post
Many years ago I interviewed for a job at Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, trade school converted to a 4-year college overseen by Penn State but students do not earn a Penn State degree. It’s a great in-between and what it sounds like you're proposing. If it isn't it’s very close to open admission. And it’s thriving. Williamsport isn't for everyone (it wasn't for me) and it’s not in any of the corners of the state. The state does have Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology in Lancaster. It could use a few others. Clarion and Mansfield might be good candidates if those campuses need to be repurposed. And yes, Thaddeus Stevens has athletics, as does Penn College.
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Penn State following SSHE, going with regional leadership. Staff buyouts also resulted in 10% reduction.
https://www.timesleader.com/news/165...o-1-chancellor
https://www.psu.edu/news/story/penn-...alth-campuses/
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Originally posted by Bart View PostPenn State following SSHE, going with regional leadership. Staff buyouts also resulted in 10% reduction.
https://www.timesleader.com/news/165...o-1-chancellor
https://www.psu.edu/news/story/penn-...alth-campuses/
I've mentioned this a dozen times, but their locations are also largely terrible. While PASSHE are in rural towns that have developed around the colleges, Penn State branches are mostly in rusted out former industrial towns like McKeesport, Uniontown, and Hazleton.
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Originally posted by IUPNation View Post
Thry might but a lot of them live up 100 in a complex in Ludwig’s Corners.Cal U (Pa.) Class of 2014
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Originally posted by ctrabs74 View Post
I'm sure the folks in West Vincent are really thrilled about that. Mind you, it was about 10-15 years ago when the apartments UTI students used as "dorms" (for lack of a better term) were in West Chester, so they must've moved north.
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