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  • IUPNation
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    Originally posted by iupgroundhog View Post

    Well, not exactly. Here's a secret, though, and that's that IUP is not doing so well. Shhh! Don't tell anybody. PASSHE needs a plan for IUP.

    North of I-80 would be Edinboro, Clarion, and Mansfield. Lock Haven was actually moving in the right direction when this all started. And I think that $53 million in reserves could have gone a long way for a 3000 student school. If they would have done the right-sizing for LHU it would have been better off than most of them. LHU didn't have to be a 4k-5k student school. It's fine as a 3k student school. If greenstein would have stuck to the LHU-Mansfield integration it would have been fine and strengthened LHU. Adding Bloom into it when SRU resisted was greenstein's big mistake. There was no reason to do that. He was just moving schools around like chess pieces.
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  • iupgroundhog
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    Originally posted by complaint_hopeful View Post
    Greenstein and the rest of the crew are clearly mismanaging this entire process. The NCAA question is pure BS. The specifics need to be made public. It is inexcusable.

    If the BOG makes the wrong decision and approves this folly of a plan that will not be the end of it. I think the resistence is becoming too great and this is not not going to fly.

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  • iupgroundhog
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    Well, not exactly. Here's a secret, though, and that's that IUP is not doing so well. Shhh! Don't tell anybody. PASSHE needs a plan for IUP.

    North of I-80 would be Edinboro, Clarion, and Mansfield. Lock Haven was actually moving in the right direction when this all started. And I think that $53 million in reserves could have gone a long way for a 3000 student school. If they would have done the right-sizing for LHU it would have been better off than most of them. LHU didn't have to be a 4k-5k student school. It's fine as a 3k student school. If greenstein would have stuck to the LHU-Mansfield integration it would have been fine and strengthened LHU. Adding Bloom into it when SRU resisted was greenstein's big mistake. There was no reason to do that. He was just moving schools around like chess pieces.

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  • complaint_hopeful
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    https://www.post-gazette.com/news/ed...s/202106250142

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  • complaint_hopeful
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    Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View Post

    Edinboro got caught with its pants down. Their sustainability plan involved drawing down their reserves by further reducing enrollment via much higher admission standards and hopefully replacing it with better retention. They were going to thread the needle financially. Then covid blew up everything.
    I'd like to see the impact of covid on schools quantified financially. Like I know it costed students. But, also the schools got 2 rounds of stimulus.

    It looks like Cal U finished $5.7 million positive.

    Are schools that were already failing just using covid as an excused?

    Looks like the state will raise funding by about $50 million a year for 4 years. No bailout of housing debt from what I can tell. I wonder what the effects of this will be?

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  • IUPNation
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    Originally posted by complaint_hopeful View Post

    Wow. Clarion and Edinboro are in bad shape...which is likely why the Chancellor is rushing the timeframe. Negative 6 million in reserves is terrible.

    Yet, they put Clarion's President in charge of the West Triad.

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  • Fightingscot82
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    Originally posted by complaint_hopeful View Post

    Wow. Clarion and Edinboro are in bad shape...which is likely why the Chancellor is rushing the timeframe. Negative 6 million in reserves is terrible.

    Yet, they put Clarion's President in charge of the West Triad.
    Edinboro got caught with its pants down. Their sustainability plan involved drawing down their reserves by further reducing enrollment via much higher admission standards and hopefully replacing it with better retention. They were going to thread the needle financially. Then covid blew up everything.

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  • complaint_hopeful
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    Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View Post

    Some good financial numbers in for one.

    https://observer-reporter.com/news/l...2a43e88fd.html
    Wow. Clarion and Edinboro are in bad shape...which is likely why the Chancellor is rushing the timeframe. Negative 6 million in reserves is terrible.

    Yet, they put Clarion's President in charge of the West Triad.

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  • Fightingscot82
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    Originally posted by complaint_hopeful View Post
    Cal U Board of Trustees calls for delay in merger vote

    https://monvalleyindependent.com/202...n-merger-vote/
    Some good financial numbers in for one.

    https://observer-reporter.com/news/l...2a43e88fd.html

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  • complaint_hopeful
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    Governor Wolf indicates his intention for $200 million for PASSHE over the next 4 years.

    https://www.governor.pa.gov/newsroom...state-history/

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  • complaint_hopeful
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    Cal U Board of Trustees calls for delay in merger vote

    https://monvalleyindependent.com/202...n-merger-vote/

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  • complaint_hopeful
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    Originally posted by Bart View Post
    'The latest indication that state officials will affirm the process comes from a report that budget negotiators in Harrisburg want to allocate $50 million of the expected budget surplus toward implementation of the plan, which may be up and running by fall 2022.'
    Last edited by complaint_hopeful; 06-25-2021, 05:50 PM.

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  • Bart
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    NCAA still waiting for information to make a decision.
    https://liber.post-gazette.com/news/...s/202106250142


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    https://www.penncapital-star.com/com...her-mcclellan/







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  • Bart
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    Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View Post

    I bet they'll be required for indoor common spaces similar to what we had until this month. But enforcement is something I don't get. If campus being public land means state law leads policy (for example you can carry outdoors on PASSHE campuses) then I don't see how they can enforce or even enact this policy. I think its 100% reasonable to require students living in the dorms to have the vaccine or complete a waiver just like they do for meningitis. College students live, learn, and socialize in groups and this is a communicable virus.

    However, this article's author does have a reputation for unintentionally making a mountain out of a molehill. He's the only full-time higher ed beat reporter on this side of the state. His daughter attends Edinboro. He sometimes has to go finding stories to write and PASSHE can't block him from getting info (the unions blab & 99% of operations are subject to FOIA). Its possible that someone at IUP tipped him off to this issue (when probed IUP says nothing is final) and he ran with it.
    As of June 28, 2021, the Department of Health requiring unvaccinated individuals to wear masks indoors will be lifted. Also employees and visitors to commonweatlh worksites will not be required to wear masks. It would ridiculous to have students wearing masks, while professors do not.

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  • IUPNation
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    Originally posted by iupgroundhog View Post
    The view from Lock Haven. Susan Snyder of The Inquirer has a good grip on the whole thing. Note the professor (Cloud) picked up on my realization that virtually everything can be done that is planned without merging/consolidating. That is absolutely true (possibly he didn't get the idea from this board - lol).

    However, it is true and that notion gives credence to the idea that the real goal is to force the "slow death" of the schools.

    https://www.inquirer.com/education/l...-20210623.html

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