The House-passed bill requires a tuition freeze for next year and that may be too big of a pill for at least some of them to swallow.
A path to clearing the logjam that has held up $642 million in funding for Pennsylvania’s four independent state-subsidized universities appears to have been found, and would come with some relief for students’ wallets- at least temporarily.
“At a time when Temple University is facing near-unprecedented rising costs and decreasing enrollment, honoring such a freeze would prove to be incredibly challenging,” university spokesman Steve Orbanek told PennLive. The funding that cleared the House Tuesday is still less than Penn State received in 2010-2011, even without adjusting for inflation, according to the university. Pennsylvania’s public funding for higher education remains below par nationally, according to
At separate news conferences, Republican and Democratic lawmakers did not say specifically the measures included in the funding bill were endorsed by the universities. Asked what changed, Democratic floor leader Matt Bradford, D-Montgomery County, simply said it was Republican votes. “We are finally saying ‘this is what we believe is a good way to govern,’” said House GOP leader Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster County. “Today’s vote is really a culmination of a lot of hard work and advocacy and advancement of good government measures, to insure that taxpayer money spent at these schools is used wisely and transparently.”
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