PASSHE Institutions Merging

[IUPNation]

They could turn Cheyney into a business park pretty quick. Or, some other use.

UPenn would probably buy it.

Suburban office parks are not the future. SAP’s big glass building in Newtown Square sits empty every day..they still work from home.

[IUPNation]

Maybe. It’s if you are putting still pretty close to the outer limits of the sprawl and the demo costs would be substantial.

Not if you build 7- 8 figure homes on the land…it’s a high rent district.

[Ship69]

Should be an interesting test for how selling off a former PASSHE campus will go a few years from now: https://www.pennlive.com/realestate-...lassrooms.html

Scotland School, as mentioned in the article, was primarily a school for veterans' kids, often orphans, at one time, but over the years it gradually became a haven for low-income kids from troubled homes. They often punched above their weight in sports because in spite of the school's rural location there was usually a large contingent of urban minority kids enrolled. They won a couple of state championships in their enrollment classification in basketball and had some standout individual football and track athletes. Chuck Davis, at one time Shippensburg's all-time leading scorer with 1,825 points, came out of Scotland. In recent years, the site had been run by some Christian outfit based out of Korea. That apparently did not work out.

[iupgroundhog]

Maybe. Its still pretty close to the outer limits of the sprawl and the demo costs would be substantial.

They could turn Cheyney into a business park pretty quick. Or, some other use.

UPenn would probably buy it.

[Fightingscot82]

I don’t think they’d have too much of a problem selling off Cheyney. It’s prime real estate.

Maybe. Its still pretty close to the outer limits of the sprawl and the demo costs would be substantial.

[IUPNation]

Yeah I can't imagine much else for it given where it is. So many out of the way towns in PA based on former industries and former modes of transportation (river, train, etc) that are now passed over by interstates and major roads.

There really isn't much of a market anywhere for a college campus not located in a major metro starved for real estate. Georgia Southern University is having trouble selling off parts of the former Armstrong State campus that they merged with - and that's in the Savannah/Hilton Head market.

I don’t think they’d have too much of a problem selling off Cheyney. It’s prime real estate.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

My money’s on that getting blown up and turned into warehouses.

Dollar General probably already has the wrecking ball on the way.

[Fightingscot82]

My money’s on that getting blown up and turned into warehouses.

Yeah I can't imagine much else for it given where it is. So many out of the way towns in PA based on former industries and former modes of transportation (river, train, etc) that are now passed over by interstates and major roads.

There really isn't much of a market anywhere for a college campus not located in a major metro starved for real estate. Georgia Southern University is having trouble selling off parts of the former Armstrong State campus that they merged with - and that's in the Savannah/Hilton Head market.

[cwfenn]

Should be an interesting test for how selling off a former PASSHE campus will go a few years from now: https://www.pennlive.com/realestate-...lassrooms.html

My money’s on that getting blown up and turned into warehouses.

[Fightingscot82]

Should be an interesting test for how selling off a former PASSHE campus will go a few years from now: https://www.pennlive.com/realestate-...lassrooms.html

[iupgroundhog]

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

Greenstein echoed those concerns, though he feels that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are willing to help buoy higher education when tied to workforce outcomes.

Dan keeps stealing my lines.

[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.

:-)