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Daniel Greenstein, the new chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, speaks to faculty and staff members during a listening tour to East Stroudsburg University this week.
(Editor’s Note: This article appeared in the Chronicle for a Higher Education, Washington D.C. earlier this week.)
Daniel Greenstein is excited, grinning, talking a mile a minute. As chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, he’s days away from unveiling the details of a plan to consolidate six of the system’s 14 public universities into two new, combined institutions. Over the past nine months, the system has held hundreds of meetings to gauge the possibilities for how the new entities might function and hash out the details. The resulting document will be presented to the system’s Board of Governors for initial approval on April 28.
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Tuition for the 14 universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) will not increase for the third consecutive year following approval by the systems Board of Governors at its recent meeting.
The move keeps basic in-state tuition for undergraduate students for the 2021-22 academic year at $7,716. The technology fee for students will also remain at $478 for the upcoming academic year.
Prefacing his recommendation for the tuition freeze, Chancellor Dan Greenstein called public higher education “the last most reliable pathway to the middle class and beyond. It is a bridge to opportunity.”
“It’s arguably the only way this Commonwealth can meet its workforce development needs and address the growing inequalities that exist by region, by income and by race ethnicity,” he added.