PSU has a $149M deficit for their FY23 budget. $1M is pennies in the couch, and a lot of lower-administrators actually serve key support roles. Something is horribly wrong.

They also still make more than non-college graduates on average. An English or comm degree may not be for a specific job like a biologist or engineer or teacher, but it still opens a lot of doors. It’s just not guaranteed for a specific position like a rocket scientist or something is.

But then who would write the policies on micro-aggressions, safe spaces, and penalties for not using preferred pronouns?

Philosophy majors also make more than non-college graduates on average. If I remember correctly, it was even more than welders, which is a classic suggestion for “go to trade school instead.” Not shitting on trades here; college isn’t for everyone. But I love that philosophy is always the degree people shit on lol.

The H in your acronym stands for humble

Yeah that’s not a PUC issue. The legislature and governor Corbett deregulated energy providers and the hellscape of shady energy providers now is the legacy of that, enshrined in statute. The PUC can’t regulate that market beyond what their mandate is, which at this point is basically nonexistent.

So many bullshit admin jobs in colleges and universities, it's insane. I worked for the GOVERNMENT for a number of years and I saw less waste than what I saw routinely on college campuses. The education bubble needs to end... not everyone should go to college and in fact most should not.

Our directors work hard. It's the Deans that have to go. Or at least not have as many of them. Some departments are really small. There is no need to have a Dean for each when a Director is more than enough.

It is almost certainly also law enforcement activity as ensuring public safety is, no matter how they might often fail to do so, a function of the police.

The earliest Pennsylvania budget that is available online is that for FY 1969 - 1970. On page 237 (345 of the file) in the section regarding the State Police, i shows an estimated expenditure of 25,403 for FY 1968-1969 and there are references to things like them receiving, "a Motor License Fund transfer for traffic patrol activities." So the transfer has been made for at least fifty five years and I would bet that it could be shown to go back as far as the creation of the Motor License fund in 1946 if the relevant documents were readily available.

What's more, prior to the current Pennsylvania State Police, there was briefly a separate Highway Patrol within the Department of Highways that was later merged with the State Police to form the Pennsylvania Motor Police, which were later renamed back to Pennsylvania State Police. In light of that, it seems plausible to me that the constitutional amendment the created what is now Article VIII § 11(a) was written to include allowance for it to fund, "safety," with the intention of allowing for highway patrol functions to be funded from motor vehicle revenues, in keeping with their past association with the Highway Department.

A more than half-century old precedent of actual practice seems to lend credence as a matter of reality to my reading. Even if I'm wrong, all that means some combination of that the PSP must reduce their activities, other functions of the government must be reduced or new revenues my be raised elsewhere, which might in fact end up just being equivalent to increasing Motor License Fund Revenue sources to compensate for the transfer to the State Police, because no matter what governments pretend, money is still fungible.

Penn State, PSU, Temple and Lincoln say they need more money, even with a 7% increase in state funding

FTFY

University of Penn’s 4 billion endowment should cover it all

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Different system. The PASSHE schools are not the same grouping as the state-relateds.

Yea dude. You're right. Road rage is always totally justified and rational.

Yo! I'll never get why people do that.

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Makes sense. WVU is a better school in a better location IMHO. State College sucks donkey balls.

Not sure why this is downvoted, it’s completely accurate.

To add to this, PSP is solely responsible for all policing over 75% of PA geographic area (and around 50% of the state’s population). That’s a lot of traffic enforcement cost. I’m spitballing here, but given the compensation package the troopers enjoy, it’s not out of the question that payroll costs alone could be north of $200k per trooper annually, plus vehicles, maintenance, technology, overhead, etc. I believe the state police now have to actually prove enforcement costs to receive MLF dollars. While some creative accounting on their part is not out of the question, the costs they incur enforcing traffic rules for a full 3/4 of the state could certainly be in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

Is it your router?

No, the state system of colleges in PA was actually formed in the 1980s.

Temple is fucking ridiculous. I’m a student, and first these fuckers cry that they can’t afford to pay grad student union workers, then they cry and cry that they need higher tuition.

I’m so sick of being surrounded by leadership in my university, in my state, and most of all at the federal government that cry cry cry.

Just get something for my quality of life better instead of whining and moaning. I’m so sick of the sorriest generation running the world based purely on greed and crying about how hard it is for them.

Yes, this enrollment situation has been on the radar for a long time. College administration just didn't pay close attention and heed to it. Innovation in education is dead. People just like giving a bunch of bullshit soundbites.

To add to this, PA has more miles of waterways than any state other than Alaska, so we have a shit ton of tiny bridges that drive road costs through the goddamn roof. Seriously, the number of small creeks and streams in this state is staggering.

Also worth noting that PA does not put general fund dollars into transportation infrastructure, so every dollar that goes into roads, bridges, etc. comes from the gas tax and other transportation-related fees that go to the motor license fund and grant programs.

Total state and local tax burden in PA is comparable to other states in our region, but road users get hit harder at the pump and notice. If that funding came from an extra .5% of income tax instead of gas taxes, people wouldn’t bitch as much.

You deserve many, many upvotes. Total truth.