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Super_C_Complex t1_jcl0m0t wrote

Reply to comment by raven4747 in Penn State president says cuts will be deeper than anticipated as leaders finalize layoff plans by Aggravating_Foot_528

You also have to figure in that the state hasn't increased funding for public schools since 2008

So call it corruption, or mismanagement. But the administration isn't bleeding the school dry. Republicans are

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raven4747 t1_jcl1920 wrote

another spoiler alert: most of the admins at that level are Republicans lol

edit to add: your statement is also blatantly false, which is easily confirmed through a quick search. PSU has a thing called Advocate Day where students go to Harrisburg and talk to the PA representatives & senators to essentially ask for more money. I attended more than once. PSU definitely gets enough money from the state, and until the administration actually shows they are spending the money in the direct interest of students, I don't think we should line their pockets with more taxpayer money..

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Super_C_Complex t1_jcl4de4 wrote

Sorry, you're right. Penn state actually gets less money from the state than it did in 2008.

https://budget.psu.edu/BotJuly/BoardDocuments%2022-23/bargraph.aspx

But sure. Let's say you have to spend less before the state properly funds a fucking state university.

This is the bullshit reason penn state is so expensive. Cuts to funding or general decrease in funding per student but then blatantly false allegations of overpaid administrators.

Bendapudi isn't making a million a year.
Buildings are necessary.
Professors are underpaid and penn state relies heavily on graduate and temporary professors because the state isn't funding it.

If, in a per student basis, Pennsylvania gave as much adjusted for inflation as it did in the 70s, tuition would be like 5k

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raven4747 t1_jcl58su wrote

President Barron did make $1.8mil during Covid. how is that not overpaid? you're a unique type of bootlicker.

edit: spelling

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Excelius t1_jcl6ovx wrote

This is the narrative that school administrators have been pushing for decades. That runaway tuition inflation is simply because politicians aren't being generous enough with taxpayer dollars.

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Super_C_Complex t1_jclk57f wrote

Because it's true.

If you look at penn states expenses, tuition has gone up directly inverse to state funding.

State funding is lower now than 15 years ago

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