This increase would bring Penn State's total state appropriations to $337.9 million.
The Board of Trustees met for their bimonthly meeting in Wilkes-Barre this afternoon where it elected a new Chairman and voted to raise tuition.
The Board of Trustees finance committee proposed a tuition increase despite increased appropriations from the state.
Penn State will see a 2.5 percent general support appropriation increase in the nine-month-impasse-free state budget that Governor Wolf is expected to sign off on.
I know what you're thinking: a UPUA meeting three weeks before the semester ends is probably short, sweet, and generally uninteresting. You'd be 33 percent right, and no one was passing out candy.
At long last, after months of standstill and political mudslinging, Penn State could finally receive its state appropriation today. The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is expected to consider non-preferred bills to fund Pennsylvania's four state-related universities (Penn State, Pitt, Temple, and Lincoln) when it convenes today at 11 a.m.