PASSHE Institutions Merging

[IUPNation]

One thing has nothing to do with the other. Grow up.

Did you turn the mic on and was it you trying to ice our kicker?

[WarriorVoice]

They had a live mic on the PA System making 'noises' in the seconds before IUP snapped the ball for the game-winning FG.

Don't pull that bush league crap and your locker room doesn't get (allegedly) trashed.

One thing has nothing to do with the other. Grow up.

[IUPNation]

Penn State asking for 47% more in state funding.....kind of greedy for not being a state university/flagship with 20 something branch campuses and $6.2 billion endowment!!! Where are the calls to consolidate campuses or even close them?


https://www.inquirer.com/news/penn-s...-20220922.html

**** them…thry get the BIG money…cry me a River.

[Fightingscot82]

Penn State asking for 47% more in state funding.....kind of greedy for not being a state university/flagship with 20 something branch campuses and $6.2 billion endowment!!! Where are the calls to consolidate campuses or even close them?


https://www.inquirer.com/news/penn-s...-20220922.html

Penn State is the land grant/flagship but they're not held to any higher standard than Pitt, Temple, or Lincoln. They're also not a true state university because they don't fall under direct state oversight. They're a NPO that files a form 990. In exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars, they agree to charge PA residents less tuition and to allow state leadership so many spots on their board of trustees. Most of those seats are served via proxy (the governor and several agency secretaries aren't travelling to State College, Pittsburgh, or Philadelphia several times a year) and the real business is brokered by alumni trustees behind the guise of the state's open records law. We have a duty to fund Penn State as our land grant - but there should be more transparency. Pitt and Temple can f*ck right off. Pitt's medical affiliate is the largest employer in the state. Instead of endowing faculty positions they should be creating scholarships to offset the state funding that gets yanked.

Conversely, Pennsylvania literally owns our schools. We're as public as the Turnpike Commission (with a slightly better success rate). There are no secrets in PASSHE schools - everything is subject to open records requests. We could submit one for each PASSHE school to see how many email conversations mentioned this message board. The only caveat is the affiliate 501c3's like SGA, Foundation, Alumni Association, etc. that are legally separate.

[only1]

Penn State asking for 47% more in state funding.....kind of greedy for not being a state university/flagship with 20 something branch campuses and $6.2 billion endowment!!! Where are the calls to consolidate campuses or even close them?


https://www.inquirer.com/news/penn-s...-20220922.html

[Fightingscot82]

Still a very good thing. There are some similar arrangements for medical fields such as LECOM, Salus, etc. These integrated programs should be more common for the students who are sure of their intended path. They cut down on student loans and usually save at least a semester to a year vs going the bachelors-grad school route. I think PASSHE schools should have done this with Master of Education programs and MBAs.

FWIW, Edinboro proposed in the late 70s to create a law school. The state board of education (precursor to PASSHE) denied the request questioning the need for a low cost law school, especially one not located in a major city.

[Bart]

Not everything about ESU is bad..good partnership with Widener Law School that you can be done both undergrad and law school in 6 years. The State System needs more of this…

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/0...n-6-years.html

They can learn how to sue IUP for mucking up the visiting locker room.

Most schools have that. Bloom has it with University of Pittsburgh, Penn State, and Widner through Bloom's Law Center. .https://www.northcentralpa.com/commu...836258401.html

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Not everything about ESU is bad..good partnership with Widener Law School that you can be done both undergrad and law school in 6 years. The State System needs more of this…

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/0...n-6-years.html

They can learn how to sue IUP for mucking up the visiting locker room.

They had a live mic on the PA System making 'noises' in the seconds before IUP snapped the ball for the game-winning FG.

Don't pull that bush league crap and your locker room doesn't get (allegedly) trashed.

[IUPNation]

Not everything about ESU is bad..good partnership with Widener Law School that you can be done both undergrad and law school in 6 years. The State System needs more of this…

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/0...n-6-years.html

They can learn how to sue IUP for mucking up the visiting locker room.

[iupgroundhog]

Surprisingly positive comments from students.

https://triblive.com/local/regional/...st-university/

It's becoming clearer that the merger is a lifeline for all 3 schools. Time will tell. Of course, these are anecdotal comments. The author thinks there are 110k students in the system.

IUP needs a lifeline.

[Fightingscot82]

Surprisingly positive comments from students.

https://triblive.com/local/regional/...st-university/

[iupgroundhog]

IUP made it on my favorite TV show today, This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Picture beside Bernie at 00:46 - 00:49.

Also, at 00:56 I think that is in front of Sutton Hall. Bunch of radicals there at IUP. College students protesting! Lock'em up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBF7BJqZSY0

[Fightingscot82]

IUP is expected to around 8900 students. The freshman class is bigger than last years.

https://www.wccsradio.com/2022/08/21...-begin-at-iup/

That's better than I had heard - rumor was 7,900 but I felt that was low.

[IUPNation]

IUP is expected to around 8900 students. The freshman class is bigger than last years.

https://www.wccsradio.com/2022/08/21...-begin-at-iup/

[Ship69]

I work at universities but there's still a lot of elitism. I've met a lot of really unintelligent people who went to D1 and "name" schools. I've been complimented many times that I exceeded the expectation for a PASSHE alum.

I certainly knew a lot of people attending Penn State in the '60s who were no smarter than the average PASSHE student. My roommate at Ship went up to Penn State to take some summer courses and got better grades than he did at Ship.