PASSHE Institutions Merging

[IUPNation]

Is it safe to say that colleges got too diversified in it's degree offerings?

College should exclusively be a classroom/Apprenticeship experience these days.

When you graduate, you should already have some professional work experience under your belt.

[Bart]

Interesting article about University of Arts collapse.

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2024/...t-newtab-en-us

[Bart]

Time for Commonwealth University to find a new president.

Former Dean owed $1,008,549 in back pay since fired in 2018.
$775,589 in future pay going forward.
$1.5 million for pain, suffering, and embarrassment
$450,000 in punitive damages from Commonwealth President Hanna

[Bart]

Must have been based on his track record.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsy...-20190426.html

As noted in the above post from 2021 when Hanna was name president of Commonwealth, this has been know for a long time. That article is no longer available, but the Lock Haven article is: https://www.lockhaven.com/news/local...-haven-campus/

Hanna, meanwhile, does not come to LHU without some controversy.

Four months into his job at Bloomsburg, he was accused of harassing an assistant. However, after investigating, PASSHE said it found that Hanna’s behavior was “clearly inappropriate,” but not “sexual in nature,” the Philadelphia Inquirer reported at the time.

At both Kutztown University and Delaware Valley University, officials approved confidential separation agreements that allowed Hanna to move onward and upward in his career, the paper reported.

The dispute on the 8,900-student campus, in Columbia County about 40 miles southwest of Wilkes-Barre, was brought to light last year by a whistle-blower lawsuit filed by the school’s former business school dean, Jeffrey Krug. Krug claims he was wrongfully fired after helping Hanna’s assistant file her complaint, which the school denies. Jeff Krug is suing Bloomsburg, alleging he was wrongfully fired after helping the president’s assistant report a sexual harassment complaint.

In an interview in 2019, Hanna, 52, has staunchly defended his record, saying he left Kutztown and Delaware Valley because of disputes over leadership style, not misconduct.

[Fightingscot82]

The University of the Arts & Temple merger talks have broken down after some lenders have called in loans UArts used to keep itself afloat. I give Temple credit for trying to do the right thing and try to find a win inside of a total mess.

[Fightingscot82]

Gannon is merging with Ursuline.

https://www.gannon.edu/ursuline-college/

[Bart]

Gannon is merging with Ursuline.

https://www.gannon.edu/ursuline-college/

Watch for more Florida athletes in Erie

[IUPNation]

Gannon is merging with Ursuline.

https://www.gannon.edu/ursuline-college/

To be a private school you need to have a lot of cash in the bank already ….….

This seems like a smarter move for survival then going D1 in sports that won’t fix a thing.