At the danger of encouraging an echo chamber, we wanted to post an addendum to our look at the state of college newspapers. In the post, we said: If the Collegian finds itself short of funds, then it could always ask the University for a greater subsidy, but the chances of a successful result are […]
UPUA sent Rendell a letter asking him to speak here on March 4th (or as you might know it, UPUA’s Tuition Awareness Day). Here’s the Collegian’s story about Rendell and UPUA’s offer. It was published on 2/17. I hope he’s responded to the request by now. There’s a Rendell quote from January that I think […]
We’ve spent countless hours thinking about the effect of the economic downturn on Penn State. Our recent thoughts, and some older ones, have focused on the Penn State endowment. Recently, the scope of our endowment queries has expanded to include the Big Ten’s eleven schools. By compiling data from several sources, we have aggregated Big […]
President Obama has stated that compensation for executives at companies receiving stimulus, or bail-out, money will be capped at $500,000. Businesses aren’t the only ones receiving funds from the government in this stimulus package, so are universities; Graham Spanier, as of 2006, has a yearly salary of $545,016. Obama’s mandate does not affect university administrators, […]
In an opinion piece in the Philadelphia Bulletin, Thomas Shakely, founder of Safeguard Old State, discusses the effect of the currently debated stimulus package on higher education. Shakely argues that: this increase in taxpayer funding of higher education will not result in fundamentally better colleges or universities. Our universities and colleges will likely be less […]
Gavin Keirans (UPUA President), George Khoury (Council of Commonwealth Student Governments President), and Luke Pierce (IFC President) all addressed a crowd of approximately 100 students and community members at today’s Rally for Relief. The argument put forth by the student leaders was quite strong. It was, in short, that students at Pennsylvania’s state related universities […]