Nine months into her tenure, the new Penn State president has laid out a first set of five-year goals for the state's largest university.
- Bendapudi has spent a great deal of time listening to her new constituencies, and taking the measure of the university’s resources and results.
“We really want to make sure that, in the time they were here, our education did transform that individual,” Bendapudi said.getting substantially more state aid for Pennsylvania’s biggest state-related university. Her staff is already working on a new budget model that will see more funds appropriated based on student enrollment and credit hours taught in various departments and colleges. Officials have made clear that no unit will take a budget cut of more than 4 percent in any given year as this is implemented, and year-over-year increases will be capped at 4.6 percent.
“We’re a land-grant unniversity. It’s supposed to be about transforming lives through higher education, not just for the elite; but for everybody,” Bendapudi said. Bendapudi didn’t propose specific changes in research prioriities Monday, but she did add this caveat: “We are always going to align our areas with the biggest needs of the Commonwealth... Our purpose requires us to align what we do with the needs of the Commonwealth, the country, and beyond, in that order.”
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