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Originally posted by IUPbigINDIANS View PostCutting football also cuts out 80 or so students ... most paying their own way. Who knows. They are in a tough spot.Originally posted by iupgroundhog View PostI think you just let in another 80 applicants. It's not hard at all.
Based on the rate of fall 2019, for Clarion to get another 80 students, it would have to admit another 280 (2,622 applicants, 755 enrolled).
Clarion only turned down 131 applications last year (2,491 admitted out of 2,622 applications), so it would have to find a way to drive up applications while the number of Pennsylvania high school seniors is going down.
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I agree that its a really bad idea for a state with declining population and declining revenue to be funding two exclusive systems competing with one another - the same state that says competition on liquor & wine sales is a bad idea. With the exception of Penn State Behrend, the only Pitt & Penn State branches on strong footing provide geographic access (Pitt Bradford, Penn State Abington & Harrisburg). All other branches have experienced declines just as bad if not worse than PASSHE. Behrend's secret is leveraging its Penn State brand and beating Edinboro at its own game. Why fund two failing systems when you can prop up the one you own?
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View PostThis is the best article on the possible "integrations" that I've found. It helps that its written by people who cover (and understand) higher ed, not a local newspaper writer regurgitating what they've read elsewhere then got some quotes from usual suspects.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/...-plan-redesign
As for the letter related to the original article, with all due respect to its author, he doesn't know what he's talking about. Less than 1 in 5 PASSHE students live on campus. Less than 2 in 5 live on campus or immediately adjacent to campus (off campus rental). When you close a campus, you're leaving behind 60% of the students who attend - because they commute from their permanent residence. Only in the case of Cheyney/West Chester and *maybe* California-IUP would you find someone who commutes to campus who could commute in a different direction. PASSHE students are highly sensitive to financial and geographic needs. Plus the guy's only higher education experience is teaching a statistics class at GW. He's no higher ed policy wonk.
The chancellor's presentation hit the nail on the head: the magic bullet is a radical increase in annual funding to the degree of ~$250 million increase over the current level. That's just not happening because the money isn't there nor is universal support for PASSHE's mission.
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This is the best article on the possible "integrations" that I've found. It helps that its written by people who cover (and understand) higher ed, not a local newspaper writer regurgitating what they've read elsewhere then got some quotes from usual suspects.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/...-plan-redesign
As for the letter related to the original article, with all due respect to its author, he doesn't know what he's talking about. Less than 1 in 5 PASSHE students live on campus. Less than 2 in 5 live on campus or immediately adjacent to campus (off campus rental). When you close a campus, you're leaving behind 60% of the students who attend - because they commute from their permanent residence. Only in the case of Cheyney/West Chester and *maybe* California-IUP would you find someone who commutes to campus who could commute in a different direction. PASSHE students are highly sensitive to financial and geographic needs. Plus the guy's only higher education experience is teaching a statistics class at GW. He's no higher ed policy wonk.
The chancellor's presentation hit the nail on the head: the magic bullet is a radical increase in annual funding to the degree of ~$250 million increase over the current level. That's just not happening because the money isn't there nor is universal support for PASSHE's mission.
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Originally posted by Bart View Post"""
No you didn't. The Higher Ed letter recommended it and you seemed to agree. "That would probably be the most efficient and effective option". I was commenting on both.
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Originally posted by Bart View Post"""
No you didn't. The Higher Ed letter recommended it and you seemed to agree. "That would probably be the most efficient and effective option". I was commenting on both.
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Originally posted by IUPbigINDIANS View Post
Clarion really had an epic fall in athletics.
For the somewhat older crowd on here, it wasn't really all that long ago when Clarion had some outstanding football and men's basketball teams.
Recall they made the football Final Four in 1996. As a long-time PSAC basketball fan, trust me they had some really good teams as recent as the early 2000s.
Fast forward a bit and football had a winless season and a one-win campaign. The men's basketball program there has become, well, horrific.
Clarion is a nice town up in the mountains. Very remote. The campus is nice in kind of a 1980s way. I hope it survives.
Their football program has made strides under Chris Weibel. They went from dumpster fire to kind of being an annoying, tough team to play. They've given Cal and IUP fits in the recent past.
Support seems to be totally lacking. Clarion is one of the road trips I go on in football and basketball. It's like a yearly home game for IUP in basketball. I've also been to football games there where IUP had more fans in the stadium.
They just pumped a fortune into Tippin Gymnasium. It turned out pretty nice.
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Originally posted by boatcapt View Post
That would probably be the most efficient and effective option but it doesn't seem like the BOG is looking for the most effective option. They seem to be stuck trying to "efficiency their way out" of this problem with out doing anything meaningful to the schools. While efficiency is great and you can take a marginal performer and make them functional by increasing efficiency, i think the time has passed were that can generate the change necessary for all PASSHE schools to sustain long term success. To put it bluntly, there are too few students in PA to sustain 14 healthy universities. And the number of students is going to continue to decline.
The efficiency process the PASSHE is engaged in here imay be effective in kicking the can down the road for a few years but in the end,, schools are just going to have to close.
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Originally posted by boatcapt View Post
That would probably be the most efficient and effective option but it doesn't seem like the BOG is looking for the most effective option. They seem to be stuck trying to "efficiency their way out" of this problem with out doing anything meaningful to the schools. While efficiency is great and you can take a marginal performer and make them functional by increasing efficiency, i think the time has passed were that can generate the change necessary for all PASSHE schools to sustain long term success. To put it bluntly, there are too few students in PA to sustain 14 healthy universities. And the number of students is going to continue to decline.
The efficiency process the PASSHE is engaged in here imay be effective in kicking the can down the road for a few years but in the end,, schools are just going to have to close.
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Originally posted by Bart View PostInside Higher Ed letter quote
"Pennsylvania, you have an opportunity to go further. Why not pull the five western institutions: Edinboro, Clarion, Slippery Rock, Indiana, and California together into one cohesive unit. The same could happen for other state institutions. Lock Haven, Mansfield, Bloomsburg, and East Stroudsburg as one subset, and a Shippensburg, Millersville, Kutztown, West Chester, and Cheyney as an other. Then there would be three subsystems instead of 14 or even the proposed 11. Of course, from a simple map standpoint, one could argue the elimination of 2-3 campuses completely, including Clarion and Indiana, as well as West Chest/Cheyney and Kutztown. I am sure there are both programmatic and political reasons to keep all 14 open, but at what cost? At least their trying. Watch this scenario playout across the country in the next five years."
https://www.insidehighered.com/views...ampuses-letter
The efficiency process the PASSHE is engaged in here imay be effective in kicking the can down the road for a few years but in the end,, schools are just going to have to close.
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Originally posted by WarriorVoice View Post
Things are often cyclical in collegiate athletics...In a few years Call could be back in the deep valley...Ya never know...
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Originally posted by CALUPA69 View Post
Don't really think CLARION has had the athletic history to justify having any sports on campus. Way back when they were outstanding in wrestling and well above average in football and basketball. Recently they seem to have fallen on hard time. At the same time CAL came out of a deep valley of mediocrity when AA showed up and along with 4 team NCs and 2 individual ones, have been more than competitive in most sports so even putting aside my rooting interest, I don't believe the VULCANS should give up anything unless their administration thinks it wise.
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