Do me a favor, close all 20 branch campuses and the main one too.
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Yes, Pitt's degenerate little brother has been quite disturbing for some time. Of course, I mean little brother in age, stature, morality, and wisdom, just not size...at least since he greedily let himself go and is now suffering the consequences of an unrestrained accumulation of gluttonous quantities of whatever he could get its hands on with nary a concern for maintaining any standards. All the warnings of the unrestrained expansion and diploma mill mindset are now coming home to roost.
This place will die if PSU ceases to exist. Apparently ever other post is about them.
PSU has sapped state resources and begged the legislature to cut Pitt off to do things like keep operating the branch campus mess under the lie that they had to keep making education accessible to underserved communities. Now, those campuses are not profitable enough so they're going to leave those communities in the dust and probably still try to get Pitt pushed aside. It really is important to us as both taxpayers and as people who love Pittsburgh's university.
I'd argue higher education doesn't necessarily need scaled back in terms of number of schools, but needs reimagined. There are some schools that with tuition and room & board are like $100k per year. That's insane. Where in the world is that money going?
Careful. My brother went to UPJ and he called it 13th Grade too.
What has always been crazy to me and defines PSU's academic standard is the fact that they boast about having over 200 (I even heard 250) degree programs?? Seriously, I know someone who majored in golf management. Obviously programs are watered down.
) and move everything to Hershey, where their school of medicine is located, creating an institution akin to IUPUI, UIC, etc.
It’s interesting that you either put a laughing emoji or a Brady Bunch reference anytime there is anything negative about State Penn.
Really? For example does PSU need a branch campus in Erie, Beaver, New Ken, Dubois and Altoona? Like every hour's drive away? When the numbers are so low, like 500 students, Can that be efficient?
Wouldn’t it make more sense for you to spend your time on the Penn State message boards talking with your own fans?
About 35 or so years ago, the PSSHE schools all begged for PSU not to be allowed to covert all their 2 year community college-like branches into 4 year schools. Many overlapped territory with the state schools, but the PSU branches were much worse in what they offered as they were still only 2-year schools with no admission standards that pumped students into University Park. The PSSHE schools were, and still are, all much better, more developed, full residential colleges with robust academic offerings unlike PSU's schools which today have largely token 4-year offerings, little in the way facilities, little student housing, etc.
Everyone's local college is "13th grade", but there is no comparison between what UPJ offers and what any of the PSU branches offer, academicly, facilities-wise, or athleticly, except maybe for Erie.
Outside of Altoona, what assets really? Selling extra psu hats at local Dicks to wear to st patricks day parade? Providing staff for local newspaper, tv station? Environmental/Agriculture research? Thon? I mean, what?
That you think I’m a Penn State is quite pitthetic and Jan Brady of you. What year did you flunk out of Pitt?
Some of the branches are better than others. I can speak for Altoona and I'm sure you've seen the changes to that campus over the years. If they took down all of the signs that told you where you were, you'd think you were on just about any other D3 campus in the Commonwealth. And it really doesn't overlap with the footprint of any PASSHE schools. I would agree that you can get a better education in many of the 4-year degree offerings elsewhere but it's a fully functioning campus that could legitimately stand alone. Only real outward difference that you see is that there are still a lot of commuter students which makes it more affordable if you live locally. Still, the area would be much better served it if was a stand alone school and not watered down as a branch campus.
