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[azv105]

Hope you all heard this: http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110310/NEWS/103100327/-1/NEWS01

Any insights/guesses on what this means? I work for the PASSHE system and I am concerned about it. Can this cut tenure-track people hired in the recent years (not only in ESU but other PASSHE schools as well)?

[gsawpenny]

I don't think they will eliminate recently tenured profs.  What this really means is the elimination of mixed programs and those with few graduates.  That position for a professor of GLBT Studies will be cut.  The Philosophy Department will likely be rolled up with Religious Studies (and/or some others) into a Liberal Studies Department.  More likely, all traditional Arts and Letters departments will be rolled into a broader Humanities Department. 

Smaller colleges will be forced to trend toward the fundamentals of an older, more traditional liberal arts education.  I feel bad for PA, but this is coming to every state in the nex few years.

[immigrant]

As a proud Penn Stater, this is devastating news.

Graham Spanier is warning that some of the PSU branch campuses could close as a result. The sky *is* falling.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11068/1130761-100.stm

[azv105]

Yes, devastating indeed. I believe we never had a cut this massive before (or may be looong ago).