PASSHE Institutions Merging

[Fightingscot82]

Enrollment & budget woes are now hitting the next ring of schools: the large, public schools mostly with D1 sports who have the enrollment to cover for small financial swings but the combination of enrollment fluctuations, state funding changes, and operating cost inflation have forced them to trim. UNC campuses like Charlotte and Greensboro are trimming. University of New Hampshire is looking to cut 75 jobs.

Penn State is looking to cut $100 million. A 1.5% cut from the main campus but 15% from the branches annual operating budgets. Plus $30 million a year less in administrative & operating costs (unsure how that differs).

[IUPNation]

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

It was September in those days! Nobody should be in a class room before Labor Day!

I was about a B plus student in high school..and It was just about that at IUP. I rarely got grades below 85 in high school ( Philly Catholic High Schools grades in 0-100 scale) but I did get more C’s than I was used to at IUP..mainly my science classes because it’s boring to me and I was a bigger social butterfly…

[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.

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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..

[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]

Montgomery County Community College has over 12000 students.

Just sayin…

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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]

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.