The University of Pittsburgh, Penn State, Temple, and Lincoln are expecting to receive $623 million. However, a Pennsylvania legislative budget dispute is still delaying its arrival.
Four of Pennsylvania’s universities are plugging budget gaps while they await hundreds of millions of dollars in aid that has been snarled in a partisan dispute among lawmakers in a state that has one of the nation’s most abysmal records for funding higher education. Education advocates argue that even a proposed increase in aid won’t make a dent in the underfunding of Pennsylvania's higher education.
Lawmakers approved funds to go out to the state-owned higher education system, community colleges and state financial aid. If the Legislature doesn’t send any money to the four state-related schools, Pennsylvania’s spending on higher education will be below $1.5 billion in fiscal 2023-24. That is below the $1.6 billion it was spending 25 years ago. Pennsylvania ranks nearly last in just about every measure for college affordability.
But I do believe that if we get into the new year, into the second semester of the academic year, then we will certainly get very, very nervous and potentially have to start taking other fiscal actions to make sure that we can pay salaries, can operate,' he said. House Majority Leader Rep. Matt Bradford, D-Montgomery, agreed that tuition freezes were necessary, but said the discussion hinges on the state funding levels.
Coupled with significant slashes to state funding around 2011, Pennsylvania has been on a trajectory of ranking low for affordability. Even as they wait, the universities are already developing their requests for the next fiscal year. Hari Sastry, the senior vice chancellor and chief financial officer at the University of Pittsburgh, said they’ve heard the concerns about affordability, and have pitched a 'shared sacrifice for the state.
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