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Most schools under the PASSHE umbrella will be getting a several million dollar funding boost this year.
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Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned colleges and universities have lost a quarter of their students in the last decade, and this year recorded the steepest single-year loss. Chancellor Dan Greenstein says that dip is tied to the system’s funding, and the lack of financial support schools can offer low- and middle-income students.
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On today’s episode of The Confluence: Bill Schackner with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette explains what questions are still unanswered about the merging of six state higher education institutions; WESA reporter Kate Giammarise tells us how the county Health Department struggles to collect unpaid fines from negligent landlords and other property owners; and we hear how making agriculture less labor-intensive could help bring in a new generation of farmers.
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On today’s program: Post-Gazette reporter Bill Schackner previews what’s at stake if a plan to merge six state-owned universities is approved; legal analyst David Harris explains the effects of the decisions made during the latest U.S. Supreme Court session; and a Pittsburgh parent and disability advocate talk about the benefits of a bill that will allow students to repeat an academic, and what more they wish schools and the state Department of Education could offer.
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A 20-member appointed board is set to vote Wednesday on whether to integrate 6 of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education’s 14 universities into two new institutions.
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The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education is expected to vote on its plan to merge six state-owned universities into two institutions as soon as Wednesday, despite questions that critics of the plan say remain unanswered.
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The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education's board of governors takes public comment this week on plans to merge 14 of its schools into two new institutions. At the first hearing Wednesday morning, speakers pleaded with the board to delay or forgo the consolidation plans.
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The plan would combine Clarion University, Edinboro University, and California University of Pennsylvania.
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On today’s program: The chancellor for Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education explains why he supports plans that would consolidate six universities into two, while leaving each campus open; the president of the state system faculty union weighs in on the consolidation plan and why members oppose it; and County Councilperson DeWitt Walton talks about the newly approved Independent Police Review Board.
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Enrollment at Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities has declined by 20 percent since the fall of 2010.That falling enrollment looms large as…