PASSHE Institutions Merging

[Fightingscot82]

[QUOTE=boatcapt;n890844]

State employees are not exempt from gobbaldy-gook. Where do you think most government consultants got their start!

Government and consultant reports operate on the rule of gross tonnage...The validity of a report is directly proportional to its weight, or, why use five words to say something when you can use 20 (along with a table) to convey the same thing!

Penn State isn't government. They're a 501c3 non-profit that is state regulated and receives annual state funding in exchange for board seats.

[boatcapt]

[QUOTE=Fightingscot82;n890722]

Gobbaldy-gook - Lots of unnecessary words used to convey what should be simply stated information. Often used in an attempt to either hide the underlying message or in consultant word, used to give the impression that the study the consultant conducted was worth the money they were given.[/QUOTE]

Comprehension: the action or capability of understanding something.

This was an internal study within Penn State. They didn't pay any consultants. Its right in the first couple pages.

State employees are not exempt from gobbaldy-gook. Where do you think most government consultants got their start!

Government and consultant reports operate on the rule of gross tonnage...The validity of a report is directly proportional to its weight, or, why use five words to say something when you can use 20 (along with a table) to convey the same thing!

[Fightingscot82]

[QUOTE=boatcapt;n890705]

Gobbaldy-gook - Lots of unnecessary words used to convey what should be simply stated information. Often used in an attempt to either hide the underlying message or in consultant word, used to give the impression that the study the consultant conducted was worth the money they were given.[/QUOTE]

Comprehension: the action or capability of understanding something.

This was an internal study within Penn State. They didn't pay any consultants. Its right in the first couple pages.

[boatcapt]

That was more of a sarcastic response more than anything.

Gobbaldy-gook - Lots of unnecessary words used to convey what should be simply stated information. Often used in an attempt to either hide the underlying message or in consultant word, used to give the impression that the study the consultant conducted was worth the money they were given.

[ctrabs74]

Bureaucratic gobbledy-gook to you, otherwise standard industry jargon understood by those receiving this report. Unsure what words you had trouble with.

That was more of a sarcastic response more than anything.

[Fightingscot82]

After seemingly years of speculation, seven Penn State campuses (aka "PSU-Lite") will be closing at the end of the 2026-2027 academic year:

https://psu-gatsby-files-prod.s3.ama...mmendation.pdf

If you don't feel like reading 140+ pages of bureaucratic gobbledy-gook, here's the campuses which are slated for closure:

DuBois, Fayette, Mont Alto, New Kensington, Shenango, Wilkes-Barre and York

Conversely, five PSU-Lite campuses would receive "significant investment" from the PSU system:

Beaver, Greater Allegheny (McKeesport), Hazleton, Schuylkill and Scranton

Bureaucratic gobbledy-gook to you, otherwise standard industry jargon understood by those receiving this report. Unsure what words you had trouble with.

Penn State's problem is similar to what GE went through a decade or so ago. State College is the brand that everyone knows and recognizes, but the entire entity is much larger and doing things the average person would be surprised to learn. Some examples:

- "Penn State" is in State College where the Nittany Lions play at Beaver Stadium and students eat Creamery ice cream before rioting on College Avenue. But there are 22 additional campuses and a fully online division that operate in near exclusivity of State College.

- Penn State has a medical school not in State College but in Hershey.

- Penn State operates a hospital division, Penn State Health, that has 6 hospitals, 5 urgent cares, and 19 imaging centers NOT ONE in State College or adjacent communities. The only hospital in State College is run by the Penn Highlands system out of DuBois.

- Penn State has TWO law schools on two different campuses: Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle and Penn State Law in State College. That is 100% accurate. Not one law school with two locations. Two separate law schools.

- Penn State as our Land Grant operates the Cooperative Extension assisting farmers with centers in every single Pennsylvania county (Penn State was founded to promote agricultural science).

- Penn State also operates "outreach centers" to connect folks in the city limits of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Penn State programs.

- State State operates a college athletic conference, the Penn State University Athletic Conference (just hear Vanilla Ice explaining its PSUAC, not PSAC), for 13 of the branch campuses to compete against one another at the community college level USCAA.

[IUPNation]

After seemingly years of speculation, seven Penn State campuses (aka "PSU-Lite") will be closing at the end of the 2026-2027 academic year:

https://psu-gatsby-files-prod.s3.ama...mmendation.pdf

If you don't feel like reading 140+ pages of bureaucratic gobbledy-gook, here's the campuses which are slated for closure:

DuBois, Fayette, Mont Alto, New Kensington, Shenango, Wilkes-Barre and York

Conversely, five PSU-Lite campuses would receive "significant investment" from the PSU system:

Beaver, Greater Allegheny (McKeesport), Hazleton, Schuylkill and Scranton

Thry should only have 2-3 branches at most….

[ctrabs74]

After seemingly years of speculation, seven Penn State campuses (aka "PSU-Lite") will be closing at the end of the 2026-2027 academic year:

https://psu-gatsby-files-prod.s3.ama...mmendation.pdf

If you don't feel like reading 140+ pages of bureaucratic gobbledy-gook, here's the campuses which are slated for closure:

DuBois, Fayette, Mont Alto, New Kensington, Shenango, Wilkes-Barre and York

Conversely, five PSU-Lite campuses would receive "significant investment" from the PSU system:

Beaver, Greater Allegheny (McKeesport), Hazleton, Schuylkill and Scranton

[IUPNation]

Hey McCormick's dad was president at Bloomsburg and the first ever PASSHE chancellor.

His son is still a POS.

[Fightingscot82]

How are the triads working out behind the scenes?

To quote one of my favorite scenes from Mad Men...

NOT GREAT BOB

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Hey McCormick's dad was president at Bloomsburg and the first ever PASSHE chancellor.

How are the triads working out behind the scenes?

[Fightingscot82]

But Bob Casey turned out to be a decent man and Senator..replaced by carpet bagging garbage.

Hey McCormick's dad was president at Bloomsburg and the first ever PASSHE chancellor.

[IUPNation]

The Commonwealth's biggest nepo kid since Bob Casey.

But Bob Casey turned out to be a decent man and Senator..replaced by carpet bagging garbage.

[Fightingscot82]

The quotes from Jay Paterno are laughable in their vagueness. Words like “innovate” and “invest” sound nice but unless the reporter did an absolute hatchet job on Paterno’s answers there is no substance on what innovation would mean or how money should be “invested.” At least Wollman provided concrete ideas such as collaboration with nearby PASSHE schools although that’s not really innovative as it’s certainly been done before.

The Commonwealth's biggest nepo kid since Bob Casey.

[IUPNation]

Good article on the Penn State branch closures with some strong quotes from Penn professor Julie Wollman, who was president of Edinboro 2012-2016 (and Widener after).

"Over time, the mission of land-grant institutions like Penn State was conceptualized to include extension services in agriculture and mechanics, but there was no mission or plan to develop branch campuses, said Julie Wollman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education."

https://triblive.com/local/valley-ne...grant-mission/

Yes. They should have only one campus. The state system serves everything else. But you know this all came about because too many Centre County alumni got into gubmint and steered money their way.