Florida State poised to select next president. Nine are on short list.
Some high-profile names are among the 22 candidates considered by a search committee.
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The entrance to Ruby Diamond Auditorium on the Florida State University campus, where a search committee is deciding on a successor to president John Thrasher. [ BILL LAX | Bill Lax/FSU Photo Lab ]
Updated May 11
A search committee looking for the next president of Florida State University on Tuesday developed a short list of nine candidates that includes state education commissioner Richard Corcoran.
The committee chose Corcoran and the others from a candidate pool of 22 people. Two other high-profile candidates â Frank Brogan and Jeff Kottkamp, who served terms as Florida lieutenant governor â did not make the list.
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Gov. Tom Wolf speaks about the importance
of state residents getting the coronavirus vaccine during a visit to Penn Stateâs Pegula Ice Arena on Wednesday in State College. / The Associated Press
Amid fresh signs of sagging statewide demand for the COVID-19 vaccine, Pennsylvania officials on Wednesday encouraged hundreds of thousands of college students to get their shots before they go home for summer.
Gov. Tom Wolf appeared in State College with the president and head football coach at Penn State University with a cameo by a freshman tight end to pitch younger people on the benefits of getting inoculated against the coronavirus.
With backing of unions, Pennsylvania public universities to slash over 1,500 jobs
The Board of Governors and chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) is moving forward with a restructuring plan that will merge six universities into two. The result will be the slashing of thousands of jobs and the erosion of the quality of education, even as tuition continues to rise.
PASSHE consists of 14 public universities across the state, enrolling over 95,000 students and employing over 11,000 workers and faculty. It ranks 48th in the nation in terms of public expenditure on higher education.
William Pitt Union at the University of Pittsburgh. (Photo: pitt.edu)