Daily News | Pennsylvania’s state universities delay tuition decision to July, hoping more state funding comes through
Daniel Greenstein, chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, received a new five-year contract at the board of governors meeting Thursday. He became chancellor in 2018.The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education’s board of governors agreed to delay setting next year’s tuition rate until July when the system will know how much state funding it will get.
and a $478 technology fee. That’s what they paid in 2018-19 and every year since then, making the price of attendance 13% lower now than five years ago — when adjusted for inflation, the system said.Greenstein initially had planned to propose a 3% tuition hike, which would have amounted to about an additional $250 annually for students.
But Greenstein’s approach changed Wednesday, the same day Pennsylvania Senate leaders called on PASSHE to maintain its current tuition rate.“Increasing tuition at this time would make higher education less accessible to students and directly contradict PASSHE’s mission of providing a quality education at an affordable price,” Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward, Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman, Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Scott Martin, all Republicans, said in a statement.
“It would be horrific,” said Michael Driscoll, president of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, anticipating a severe loss of students if tuition were raised that much. By holding tuition flat over the last five years, the system’s universities have given up $80 million in revenue, the system maintained, while offering $110 million in financial aid this year.
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