Joe Scarborough had Governor Rendell on Morning Joe this morning to talk about the annual budget impasse… but first, c0-host Willie Geist asked Rendell about yesterday’s top story: Penn State being recognized as the country’s #1 party school by the Princeton Review. Rendell’s comment, delivered with a school boy’s smirk, was: “You know, some are opposed […]
An interesting thing to come out of this month’s Board of Trustees meeting, other than the proposed tuition hikes, is the news that Penn State received the second highest amount of donations ever for the 2008-2009 fiscal year. Penn State received over 300,000 separate gifts from over 77,000 alumni, totaling $180 million in donations, reported […]
Gary Schultz retired this week after having served for 14 years as the university’s senior vice president for finance and business. Al Horvath, the current vice president for finance and business, will be taking his position effective today. In his position, Schultz was responsible for managing the 5,000 person workforce associated with “business operations, finance, […]
The Centre Daily Times announced on Thursday that it would be eliminating three positions and reducing all salaries over $25,000 by 2.5 percent to 5 percent. The CDT reported on its own troubles: Other cost reductions are planned, including reducing the width of the newspages by one inch, and reducing the number of comic strips […]
On Tuesday, Governor Ed Rendell met with a group of student leaders to discuss Penn State, its tuition, and the extent to which it benefits from the tuition relief act. We predicted that the meeting would be largely symbolic. UPUA President Gavin Keirans talked to us about the event via email: The Governor’s meeting went […]