And that is the problem. Pa has a gazillion schools even though its population has dropped or hasn’t grown in decades. And it lost massive tax structure with the closing of steel, coal, auto, powdered metals, machine shops, and more.
Source?
ncses.nsf.gov
Boy are you clueless about PA politics.
The steep decline started when Corbett slashed funding to higher education in 2012. And we were warned of the long term consequences at the time.
The Republicans look control of the PA House in 2010 and held it for 12 years. During Wolf’s 2 terms he proposed increases for state universities each year and the Republicans fought it every time.
There are actually nine alumni votes. Three are elected each year. But on a board of 32 …or whatever the true number is…..nine is pretty inconsequential. Which was the entire purpose of increasing the size of the board when it “ reformed” itself after the Sandusky debacle. An outside expert recommended it Board reduce its size from 25 to 15 after the scandal but the board actually increased it to 32 and added a few powerless alumni to quiet the unsettled masses.The truth is, does it really matter. With 3 votes they basically have no power. From where I sit, things have just gotten progressively worse with each passing year. I barely recognize the place.
Not that they would do anything about it, I'd love to know if PSU will ever be welcoming conservative students back to PSU?
Penn State Deletes Tweet Welcoming Conservative Students After Outcry
Today we discussed the formal censuring of a conservative student at Georgetown for his criticism of Black Lives Matter as an organization and his objections to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court…www.google.com
And here, in a nutshell, is why PA higher education is in crisis. Penn State is huge in Ag, engineering, nursing, it is the talent pipeline for the state. But hyper-political Republicans will ignore all of that and happily starve universities because they won’t kowtow to political agendas.
Yeah, that’s it. The whole damned entire problem. It’s all Republicans fault. Everyone else is perfecta and above suspicion.
Whoopsie. Well you got me there.
You poor, poor thing. It must be so hard being a college-educated white male these days.
