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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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The State System of Higher Education said Wednesday its university consolidation plan is on track. It’s asking for lawmakers’ support to keep it that way.
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The head of Pennsylvania’s group of 14 state-owned universities is detailing how he’d like to spend $75 million of mostly federal pandemic relief money over the next year.
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The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education unanimously approved plans Wednesday to merge the three western Pennsylvania schools as well as three in the eastern part of the state, the largest and most controversial change in the system’s nearly 40-year history.
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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'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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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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The board of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education is advancing a plan to merge six of its 14 universities into two new institutions, as the system struggles with sinking enrollment and stagnant state aid.
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The head of Pennsylvania’s public university system said Wednesday he is committed to combating racism on campus but conceded he has not studied how the…