PASSHE Institutions Merging

[complaint_hopeful]

So it explains why that is. It's a matter of convenience. Upon further reflection, they are all accredited so why would the most recent matter?

Doesn't accreditation last a while too? Not like it expires soon.

Interestingly that the 2 most recent accredited schools are also the largest in the triads. In the West, Californias Pres isn't the Pres of the triad.

[iupgroundhog]

http://therecord-online.com/site/archives/67228

Ok, so this is pretty earth-shaking. Dishes are falling off the shelf out in Mifflinburg.

I guess the benefit to Bloom is that they will get to have more administrators stay in town.

Hey, let's hope the NCAA allows for the schools to keep their full complements of intercollegiate sports. If they don't, what then?

At least LHU will likely get to keep all of their sports management and athletic training majors so that would be good for athletics. I still think LHU should drop d2 football.

Could my prognostication come true that these schools go to sprint football? The league could be called the integrated/consolidated athletic association ... of Pennsylvania

Bloom should get to keep the Supply Chain Management track.

All of these releases are coming out of LH. Does anybody in Bloomsburg care (beyond Bart)?

[complaint_hopeful]

LHU Virtual Town Hall on the 30th. This is all under the microscope so Greenstein's plan better be good. It better be great.

https://www.sungazette.com/news/top-...ual-town-hall/

The Universities have no leverage in this. They think they do...but these schools have been failing financially for so long that some will be bankrupt within a few years if this Integration doesn't happen. In some cases, it's their only hope of survival. I'd say probably 4 schools fall into that category atleast especially with covid. Then, once some fail...the entire system will collapse.

That said, the Integration itself meaning the plan is a concern. As has been pointed out, not many details have been released. And the plan is going to have to be very good to work. There will be a price tag that is pretty high initially and we'll see how it gets funded. With that price tag, savings are going to be tough to come by early.

So instead of fighting this for political reasons, groups need to see this as a means of survival and help develop the plan..

There is a huge misconception that this is the Chancellors plan..It isn't. He's letting each triad develop it.

[Bart]

I received something similar about the western integration. Cal has been named as the hub campus simply because they have the most recent regional accreditation. That's a silly reason to me.

https://apscufku.tumblr.com/post/644...he-integration

[iupgroundhog]

I received something similar about the western integration. Cal has been named as the hub campus simply because they have the most recent regional accreditation. That's a silly reason to me.

So it explains why that is. It's a matter of convenience. Upon further reflection, they are all accredited so why would the most recent matter?

[iupgroundhog]

http://therecord-online.com/site/archives/67228

Perhaps we have been overlooking one important postulate:

To integrate requires integration.

- Lao-Tzu groundhog

[Fightingscot82]

http://therecord-online.com/site/archives/67228

I received something similar about the western integration. Cal has been named as the hub campus simply because they have the most recent regional accreditation. That's a silly reason to me.

[Bart]

LHU Virtual Town Hall on the 30th. This is all under the microscope so Greenstein's plan better be good. It better be great.

https://www.sungazette.com/news/top-...ual-town-hall/

http://therecord-online.com/site/archives/67228

[iupgroundhog]

Update on Bloom's situation, which I am trying to figure out. Pandemic hit hard and PSSHE student to teacher ratio also hurt.

-$26 million shortfall since 2019-2020 school year
-received $16.6 million in COVID relief money
--$10 million loss of revenue because of pandemic (room and board fees were refunded last year)
-fees on activities and student housing to increase when they go back to normal in the fall
-91 jobs to be cut by 6-30-22 (after earlier reporting there would be no job cuts)
-70 of 91 furloughs will be non-faculty jobs
-14 administrators who left were not replaced
-21 temporary faculty chopped
-4% enrollment increase from 2020 spring

LHU Virtual Town Hall on the 30th. This is all under the microscope so Greenstein's plan better be good. It better be great.

https://www.sungazette.com/news/top-...ual-town-hall/

[Bart]

Update on Bloom's situation, which I am trying to figure out. Pandemic hit hard and PSSHE student to teacher ratio also hurt.

-$26 million shortfall since 2019-2020 school year
-received $16.6 million in COVID relief money
--$10 million loss of revenue because of pandemic (room and board fees were refunded last year)
-fees on activities and student housing to increase when they go back to normal in the fall
-91 jobs to be cut by 6-30-22 (after earlier reporting there would be no job cuts)
-70 of 91 furloughs will be non-faculty jobs
-14 administrators who left were not replaced
-21 temporary faculty chopped
-4% enrollment increase from 2020 spring

[iupgroundhog]

She'll get a nice pay raise plus a smaller school without union and state BS.

She is making $278k at Ship. The last president at Lawrence was making $375k and change.

We're getting used as an internship in being a college president.

Do they even have much power at this point?

[Fightingscot82]

Ship president leaving.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/0...niversity.html

She'll get a nice pay raise plus a smaller school without union and state BS.

She is making $278k at Ship. The last president at Lawrence was making $375k and change.

We're getting used as an internship in being a college president.

[Bart]

Ship president leaving.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/0...niversity.html

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Skip Bayless just signed a 4-year deal with Fox Sports for $32m.

Good work if you can get it.

[iupgroundhog]

You still Kant hit the Marx because of all the ENGELS you're trying to take.

To top that I would have to kibbutz with someone who knew how to work Trotskyism into a sentence. That's why I've been Stalin.