Pennsylvania Set to Eliminate In State Tuition Discount For Penn State, Pitt, and Temple (Pittsburgh: house, universities)

[thedirtypirate]

If a budget doesn’t pass in the coming weeks, the Universities will have to take the unprecedented step of raising tutition in the middle of the year, eliminating the in state tutition discount to our premiere public universities.

Our state congress should be ashamed of themselves for brining it to this point. Their reluctance to find common sense solutions to the revenue problems runs at risk of driving the stake through the heart of young people who chose to stay here in the state.

I urge everyone to call your local representative today and tell them to pass a budget that actually looks after the best interests of our state, and not the loud minority that has put a stranglehold on the states budget.

[thedirtypirate]

In-state tuition discounts could be nixed for students at four state-funded universities | PennLive.com

If anyone is curious, PA colleges are already very unaffordable compared to most states

Pennsylvania could be on a path to becoming the most unaffordable state in the nation for students to pursue a college education.

It's not a direction that Gov. Tom Wolf or state lawmakers say they want to head, but it's where their collective failure to agree on a revenue plan to fully fund the enacted $32 billion budget is taking us.

Without any revenue from the state to fund Penn State, Pitt, Temple and Lincoln universities, officials from three of the four universities say they will be forced to end the tuition discount they offer to Pennsylvania students.

The fourth, Lincoln, which depends on the state support to cover a quarter of its operating budget, chooses not to think about what action it might have to take.

Taking away the discount could add thousands of dollars more to the cost of a college degree in a state where by nearly all measures, Pennsylvania already ranks among the top five states in tuition levels and student debt.

[jtab4994]

Presumably that includes ending in-state tuition for illegal aliens, too. Antifa is going to get spread mighty thin over all the stuff they have to riot over.

[KevinE]

It's about time they gey get cut off. PA should only subsidize PASSHE institutions.

[bradjl2009]

It only took a 10 second Google search to see illegal immigrants ARE NOT eligible for in state tuition in PA... Some bill for it was brought to the House but it's obviously not going to pass.

[bluecarebear]

Good.

Endowment of $3.49B makes University of Pittsburgh 25th richest in U.S. | TribLIVE

I don't feel bad....one....bit. I know a bunch of professors that need pay cuts too.

[Carolina Knight]

Costs of tuition for public and private universities and colleges continue to increase. States can offset costs of public universities and colleges to an extent. The costs have to made up by those attending classes.

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by Carolina Knight

Costs of tuition for public and private universities and colleges continue to increase.

Chicken or the egg, a quick search says the cost of education has outpaced inflation by about four times since 1980. That's a huge increase, I doubt giving them more money will be used to lower tuition costs.

[ElijahAstin]

Originally Posted by bluecarebear

Good.

Endowment of $3.49B makes University of Pittsburgh 25th richest in U.S. | TribLIVE

I don't feel bad....one....bit. I know a bunch of professors that need pay cuts too.

I take it you didn’t read the article:

Although Pitt is sitting on a large investment portfolio, only a small portion of it — an average of 4.25 percent — trickles down to it each year.

“We've been very fortunate to have a number of very, very generous donors,” said Clyde Jones, university vice chancellor for health services development.

“The kind of endowed funds we are getting are increasingly more restricted. It's helped increase the number of (faculty) chairs, scholarships and research funds quite dramatically,” Jones said. “But donors are very savvy. They want to be sure we're being good stewards and that there is a good result for the money — that we're hiring top talent and recruiting the best students.”

It's that way at most universities, where the survey found disbursements from endowments accounted for an average of 9.2 percent of institutions' total operating budgets last year.

[Dequindre]

Eh. Forcing them to be more fiscally responsible and competitive will drive down wages. They LOVE being subsidized by the government.