PASSHE Institutions Merging

[Fightingscot82]

PennWest trustees met in Edinboro on Friday. The faculty union president from Edinboro ripped them a new one (watch it - its on YouTube). There is no plan for transition, which is ludicrous. I think the problem is that they have no real president. They have no real provost (VP of academics). Most other executive level people either aren't qualified or don't want it. Makes me worried there is some sort of secret plan that's not yet announced.

[SecretlySavage]

Did you even read the article? She's had a 27-year career at West Chester, most recently as the provost. She was effectively on loan to PennWest. West Chester formed a search committee less than two months after the current president announced his retirement, whereas PennWest has done nothing towards identifying a permanent president even though the interim is only committed through June 30, 2024.

Please elaborate how this is poaching.

Its not poaching, its more of a loaner president who is supposed to get the school back on track. The problem is that I don't think they've done a good job of that. I know they cut inquiry classes at Clarion even though it was statistically helping to retain students. Professors brought this up and met with leadership, but they seemingly told the professors to f off and not stick their noses in PASSHE business. I think its ridiculous that PennWest doesn't have their own president committed to helping the school.

[Horror Child]

West Chester attempting to poach an interim president from another PASSHE institution... yeah, that kinda shows where the power is in PASSHE at the moment.

Did you even read the article? She's had a 27-year career at West Chester, most recently as the provost. She was effectively on loan to PennWest. West Chester formed a search committee less than two months after the current president announced his retirement, whereas PennWest has done nothing towards identifying a permanent president even though the interim is only committed through June 30, 2024.

Please elaborate how this is poaching.

[IUPNation]

Looks like IUP's enrollment went up. Lots of caveats, but its a start. New Science building ribbon cutting is Nov 2 , this should help recruiting this spring as well. https://www.post-gazette.com/news/ed...s/202309280116

We are coming back!!!

:-)

[ironmaniup]

Looks like IUP's enrollment went up. Lots of caveats, but its a start. New Science building ribbon cutting is Nov 2 , this should help recruiting this spring as well. https://www.post-gazette.com/news/ed...s/202309280116

[Ship69]

West Chester attempting to poach an interim president from another PASSHE institution... yeah, that kinda shows where the power is in PASSHE at the moment.

We got former Mansfield president Charles Patterson when his job went away as they formed Commonwealth University. We couldn't be more pleased with him. He's been fantastic.

[Fightingscot82]

Emporium the hometown of PSAC commissioner Steve Murray. Also 2004 PSAC West DPOY Seth Fragale. And Kentucky men's basketball legend Nate Sestina.

[iupgroundhog]

Emporia, PA is the Cameron County seat.

Rabs, I think you missed the point here, FWIW. Emporium is in PA. Emporia is, in fact, in Kansas.

[ctrabs74]

Emporia is in Kansas.

Emporia, PA is the Cameron County seat.

[ctrabs74]

Pennsylvania Sh*t Show of Higher Education

https://triblive.com/local/regional/...-yet-to-begin/

West Chester attempting to poach an interim president from another PASSHE institution... yeah, that kinda shows where the power is in PASSHE at the moment.

[IUPNation]

Ironically, an emporium is a place where they have anything you'd want to buy. I guess they did in the logging days. Also, ironically, I knew an African-American woman from Philly who married a white guy from a small community near Emporium, They eventually moved to that small town. I looked up the Census statistics for the town and on the ethnicity pie chart there was a thin line for African-American. I told her that I could see her on the graph.

HA!!

[IUPNation]

My wife is from Emporium! So is your favorite D2 conference commissioner. My wife too had never conversed with a Black person until she arrived at Edinboro and met the former president & his wife.

I couldn’t understand that at all when that girl said it. She wasn’t being ignorant or anything I just found it incredulous.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

I'm sure you weren't alone in socializing. As "Animal House" brought out, socializing in college has a long tradition. I will say that most guys in my day tried to keep their GPA above a certain minimum as those who flunked out were liable to find themselves the recipient of an expenses-paid trip to Southeast Asis, courtesy of the Army. I think straight numbers for grades work well for classes such as math or science. They probably work less well in something such as a writing class. For example, is the essay worth an 83 or an 85? That's often a rather subjective call.

Going to hang out with Charlie should have been pretty good motivation to attend class.

[Fightingscot82]

Emporium!

Where I briefly met a girl at IUP who was from there who told me they never saw a black person until they came to IUP.

Needlessly to say I wasn't impressed but because of that statement...I have remembered that town actually still exists.

My wife is from Emporium! So is your favorite D2 conference commissioner. My wife too had never conversed with a Black person until she arrived at Edinboro and met the former president & his wife.

[Ship69]

The one thing I had a hard time with grade wise going from 12 years in the School System of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to IUP...was how they calculated your averages. In Catholic School when i went...it was straight numbers 1-100. Then IUP is was letters and GPA. I liked the Catholic School way better. My final grade average in high school was 87.5. I think my IUP GPA was 2.86 or something....I was way worse a student in college because I socialized far too much instead of actually studying. I must have winged half of those classes...

I'm sure you weren't alone in socializing. As "Animal House" brought out, socializing in college has a long tradition. I will say that most guys in my day tried to keep their GPA above a certain minimum as those who flunked out were liable to find themselves the recipient of an expenses-paid trip to Southeast Asis, courtesy of the Army. I think straight numbers for grades work well for classes such as math or science. They probably work less well in something such as a writing class. For example, is the essay worth an 83 or an 85? That's often a rather subjective call.