PASSHE Institutions Merging

[Fightingscot82]

Informative article that somewhat addresses the Penn State elephant in the room. Liked the b.s. spin by the Penn State representative to depict all their branch campuses as essential. What really got me was the statement that the branch campuses were around before PASSHE. That is correct in the sense that the organization known as PASSHE wasn't founded until the 1980s, but most of the PASSHE campuses themselves have been around far longer than PSU branch campuses. The Harrisburg PSU campus, for example, was founded in 1966.

I know the App State professor in the article. He actually is a Penn State grad and grew up in Edinboro, PA and is married to a Lock Haven native & grad. Even he knows Penn State has overstepped.

[Ship69]

Rumor has it PASSHE will get a 6% funding increase - exactly what they asked for and enough to avoid another tuition increase.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/...ts-and-funding

Informative article that somewhat addresses the Penn State elephant in the room. Liked the b.s. spin by the Penn State representative to depict all their branch campuses as essential. What really got me was the statement that the branch campuses were around before PASSHE. That is correct in the sense that the organization known as PASSHE wasn't founded until the 1980s, but most of the PASSHE campuses themselves have been around far longer than PSU branch campuses. The Harrisburg PSU campus, for example, was founded in 1966.

[Fightingscot82]

Rumor has it PASSHE will get a 6% funding increase - exactly what they asked for and enough to avoid another tuition increase.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/...ts-and-funding

[IUPNation]

'Aggressive Cow' roaming the Kutztown campus per numerous media reports.

Can't make this stuff up.

I didn’t know Marjorie Taylor Greene was in Berks County.

:-)

[Fightingscot82]

https://www.readingeagle.com/2023/06...ersity-campus/

[IUPbigINDIANS]

'Aggressive Cow' roaming the Kutztown campus per numerous media reports.

Can't make this stuff up.

[iupgroundhog]

I got a small bit of encouragement when I sat next to my super conservative local GOP state rep at a lunch meeting and he indicated he thought they should start worrying less about the state-related schools and more about the ones the state actually owns. Whether that will translate into any kind of action remains very much to be seen, but at least he seems to be thinking that way.

The more closely the PASSHE becomes linked to workforce development, the more support it will get from the GOP.

[Ship69]

It’s the GQP way. Shapiro needs to shore up the school the Commonwealth owns.

I got a small bit of encouragement when I sat next to my super conservative local GOP state rep at a lunch meeting and he indicated he thought they should start worrying less about the state-related schools and more about the ones the state actually owns. Whether that will translate into any kind of action remains very much to be seen, but at least he seems to be thinking that way.

[IUPNation]

Not aware it was private. My bad. Whichever, it's in a bad position. West Virginia has long had low tuitions compared to many other states, and given the state of the W.Va. economy I can't believe they're getting a ton of state aid.

I see there is some opposition in Harrisburg to more aid to the state-related universities — Penn State, Pitt, etc. One of the objections was rising tuition. I wanted to grab some of those people through the television screen and point out that the PASSHE system has held the line on tuition for several years now — some more funding would be nice. But the operative political method now is to knock the foundation out from under systems and then complain that they don't work.

It’s the GQP way. Shapiro needs to shore up the school the Commonwealth owns.

[iupgroundhog]

But the operative political method now is to knock the foundation out from under systems and then complain that they don't work.

That's a keen observation.

[Ship69]

AB is private. But also in that state, WVU has a FORTY FIVE MILLION budget deficit. They're cutting over 130 positions and several grad programs.

Not aware it was private. My bad. Whichever, it's in a bad position. West Virginia has long had low tuitions compared to many other states, and given the state of the W.Va. economy I can't believe they're getting a ton of state aid.

I see there is some opposition in Harrisburg to more aid to the state-related universities — Penn State, Pitt, etc. One of the objections was rising tuition. I wanted to grab some of those people through the television screen and point out that the PASSHE system has held the line on tuition for several years now — some more funding would be nice. But the operative political method now is to knock the foundation out from under systems and then complain that they don't work.

[IUsuallyPonder]

Alderson Broaddus is on life support. The state higher ed commission has questioned its ability to award degrees due to enrollment & finances. AB is down to 500 undergrads and 170 grad students.

Sounds similar to Thiel College. How that tiny school in Greenville still exists blows my mind. Not too far off from them would have to be Saint Francis.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Alderson Broaddus is on life support. The state higher ed commission has questioned its ability to award degrees due to enrollment & finances. AB is down to 500 undergrads and 170 grad students.

Athletes must be more than half the enrollment. Sounds like the dying days of Urbana.

[Fightingscot82]

Yeah, you're not going to be able to operate a campus and hire much of a faculty with numbers like those. PASSHE is not the only state system with problem children.

AB is private. But also in that state, WVU has a FORTY FIVE MILLION budget deficit. They're cutting over 130 positions and several grad programs.

[Ship69]

Alderson Broaddus is on life support. The state higher ed commission has questioned its ability to award degrees due to enrollment & finances. AB is down to 500 undergrads and 170 grad students.

Yeah, you're not going to be able to operate a campus and hire much of a faculty with numbers like those. PASSHE is not the only state system with problem children.