The Board of Trustees met on Thursday in New Kensington. By the Penn State Live release, you’d think they ignored the most important issue the university was facing: the drastic reduction in state appropriations. Veblen noted that Spanier’s speech was “much happy talk.” But the university began releasing statements today about the plans for next […]
Graham Spanier is calling in favors… or trying to, at least. He sent a letter (PDF) to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan about Governor Rendell’s recent exclusion of Penn State and other state-related universities from federal stimulus money. By arbitrarily re-defining The Pennsylvania State University as non-public, simply because we are not “under the absolute […]
Governor’s Reduction Governor Ed Rendell released the latest of his increasingly drastic budget reductions for the 2009 fiscal year. The governor has now reduced the budget proposal by $2 billion dollars. Overall, 229 line items would be impacted by the latest round of spending reductions. Compared to the current fiscal year, the Governor has now […]