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Temple, Pitt, and Penn State are not even public institutions. They are "state-related" institutions that are governed as privates.  The Pennsylvania legislature long ago abdicated its role in supporting public education, standing by as one-by-one its premier "public" institutions had to choose between providing an excellent educational experience to Pennsylvanians or living off state dollars.  If they had chosen the latter, the three of them may have really become only football schools instead of great universities. Since 1971, PSU has gone from being 60% supported by the state down to 20%; tuition increased from being 30% of the budget to 70%.  This has been a long term trend, not something recent.  The tuition and state appropriation intersected at the same percentage over 20 years ago.  Now after thirty years of neglect state legislators want to have hearings, which will no doubt find that the universities themselves are to blame for Pennsylvanians having to pay so much more than other states by charging such high tuition.

[inthelab]

Are you sure?
Penn State is the state university, U. Pittsburgh is private, and I thought Temple was as well.

[jonesey]

Can't you just go to one of the other schools in South New Jersey?

[titian]

FWIW, Penn State is not "the state university." The state universities (14 of them) are part of SSHE (State System of Higher Education). Penn State, Temple, UPitt, and Lincoln are part of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education in PA, and considered to be state-related. Different governance and funding rates exist for the two systems.

[mountain_ivy]

What article are ya'll discussing?

[doctor_torrseal]

Are you sure?
Penn State is the state university, U. Pittsburgh is private, and I thought Temple was as well.

Neither the University of Pittsburgh nor Temple are private.  They are both state-related, have in-state tuition deals, and are generally regarded as state universities (in much the same way as Michigan or Wisconsin are state schools even if the state is barely paying for them any more).

I think the OP is referring to this article: http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/10/5730n.htm.  Honestly I cannot understand why people, even forum newbies, expect anyone to understand these responses without pasting in a link to the article.