(07-15-2021 04:44 PM)Dr. Isaly von Yinzer Wrote: Forget about their FBS aspirations, those campuses are not going to exist in 5-10 years. This is clearly a preliminary step.
There are lots of reasons for this happening. Chief among them is the fact that Pennsylvania’s population has declined quite a bit in the past half century.
However, another really big factor here is Penn State and to a lesser extent Pitt. They run all of these expensive branch campuses and they just run these smaller, more affordable state schools right into the ground.
I’m fine with the current plan and I’m realistic enough to know that this is just the first step in a multi-phase plan to downsize the number of universities offered through the state system. However, let’s make sure that we protect the surviving state system going forward or we will live to regret it.
If you are a doctor in real life sir, I am sure that you have a great deal of knowledge, and I won't treat you like I did double RSU. But, the campuses that are being referred in this integration never had FBS/FCS aspirations to begin with. Of the six that are going through these mergers, I only mentioned one as an FCS possibility because it had a rivalry with IUP (one of the campuses that Pennsylvania state legislators made
sure to
spare from this integration/consolidation.
Penn State does have waayyy too many branch campuses that a lot of them should have been made into jucos, IMO. Penn State does have two legitimate branch campuses, so I would leave those two alone. As for Pittsburgh's branches, they are going to have to look if it is worth it keeping them open, or just a couple, or one, or none. I really don't know the answer Dr. Yinzer, so I throw all of those options out there on the table. I don't see Pittsburgh being as much responsible as PSU though, to be honest with you.
Of the PASSHE schools, I see IUP, West Chester, Slippery Rock, the main campus of the northern conglomerate of PASSHE schools, the western conglomerate of PASSHE schools, and quite a few others surviving. But I also see some PASSHE campuses being closed as well. (There are fourteen in all).
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