Pennsylvania
Related: About this forumThe Mis-education of Gov. Corbett - Here's Facts About PA. State-Owned Universities.
http://apscuf.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/apscuf-president-offers-facts-on-public-higher-education-in-pennsylvania/Excerpt:
State-owned universities (PASSHE) have "cut 900 jobs since 2010. Does the governor know? Does he care?
In the same statement, Chancellor Cavanaugh and Chairman Pichini also note the system has saved $230 million in cost savings over the last decade does the governor know? PASSHE has retrofitted heating plants, consolidated purchasing and centralized data collection. Does the governor care about such details? When Corbett says, Its incumbent upon the people of Pennsylvania to call on [these colleges] to control the cost of education, does he know the facts? Does he care?
Last year, the governor approved an 18 percent cut in state funding; this year there are 150 fewer faculty in the classroom. If the General Assembly authorizes his 20 percent cut, is he willing to live with the loss of another 150? How concerned is he really for the students at the universities that the commonwealth owns?
Further, Corbetts math seems to be a bit off. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Corbett stated his cuts would amount to 3.8 percent of the systems operating budget. Since his cuts are $82 million and the systems budget is $1.5 billion, his math simply doesnt work. When he asked the Siemens executives if they could live with an 1.8 percent cut (the percent cited for Temple University), did he not realize that, even with his math, thats half of what PASSHE would have to cope with? Since my calculator comes up with 5.5 percent cut of PASSHEs budget, does he know the ramifications? Does he care?"
creeksneakers2
(7,476 posts)He's the worst governor the state has ever had.
I'm sorry to go a little off subject, but I saw Corbett on the news the other night saying that voter ID
laws increase turnout. How is that possible? It's a lie. I'm still very angry that he could tell such an obvious lie to the public.
Higher education, the schools, fracking, it goes on and on with this governor.
JPZenger
(6,819 posts)Lots of facts and charts at the link
creeksneakers2
(7,476 posts)The bar graphs tell the story.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)was talking about university cyber classrooms where "thousands" could enroll in the same online class. I'll bet one of Corbett's puppet masters, i.e., big contributors, has dreams of cashing in on a higher education equivalent of PA's K-12 cyber schools.
EVERYTHING Corbett does is according to the script provided by his corporate masters. It is ALL about enrichng the chosen few.