the amount of aid they give is criminal. I grew up getting free lunches at school, turned in fafsa, got zero from PSU, no pell grants or anything like that. Had to take out loans as did my parents, it was pretty sad that they gave nothing need based or academic based for a kid with a 4.0 and top 1% SAT scores. I could have gone to numerous places for free but wanted to go to PSU and my parents wanted me to go there too so we made it work but damn there was no way so many students like myself should have had to pay that much.
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I can certainly relate. We made it work and came out with ~70k in loans. I can't imagine doing the same thing today and starting out a career with ~220k in loans. Insane.
No Honors College? That’s the main source of academic awards that PSU offers.
Also Pell Grants are provided by the Federal government. If you didn’t qualify for them it was because of your family’s income and info on FAFSA and nothing to
do with PSU.
I don’t dispute that PSU is stingy with both need based and academic aid but that’s pretty typical at most flagship public schools. PSU is not the significant outlier that some on here make it out to be. The one place where PSU sticks out is in state tuition where it is definitely high for a flagship.
Scanned the piece, but didn’t see definitions around aid stats. I assume those averages for those that received each type of aid (?). If that’s true it’s hard to digest unless you have the share of students receiving each type.
Back in the day, we were seriously considering endowing a scholarship--likely at/for PSU Ogontz (now Abington) as a scholarship there (Sutherland Scholarship) really made a big, big difference for me and my family back in the mid-1970s. But with all the recent nonsense going on with both the Alumni Association (and I was once a chapter president and an admissions volunteer) and the current BOT, our money went elsewhere, to an named (after Mrs KG's grandmother) endowment for elephants at the Indianapolis Zoo.
And no, it has nothing to do with Joe. I likely would have considered following what the Paterno family has done were it not for all of the undemocratic and secretive machinations of the current BOT (and AA). And we did give sufficient amounts through the previous years to cover what I'd gotten in scholarship monies.
I understand. The only donations that I have ever made to Penn State was to the Libraries fundraiser for the expansion in the late 90s and I give to the Libraries General Collections fund every year. I started working for the libraries as a student in 1993.
If I ever had the opportunity to make a large donation it would be to the Schreyer Scholarship Fund as I was a recipient when I was a student and I've always dreamt of starting a scholarship for study abroad within the Stuckeman School.
I did also make a donation of books to their SF library. Unfortunately, these days, they are "deaccessing" a lot of books. No room, supposedly. So are libraries around the country. I think there's one small shelf of SF in my local branch.
Shelf space is real estate. Duplicates, older, and low use items are always ripe for weeding, especially general interest items.
True--but if you only have one bookcase for SF--and that's small, no more than 3 ft wide, I begin to wonder. Much of the space in my local branch is reading areas and computers and community meeting rooms. Also, a university library is a research library. Low use there does not mean no use. Its hard top predict in advance where research might take one.
PSU has over two million low use items housed in three storage facilities. One on campus and two warehouses at CATO park. They're finishing up the new 12' high, compact shelving at the two CATO warehouses to increase capacity. All items are available by request. Book chapters and journal articles are typically scanned.
Governor is a major part of the problem…only state of 50 that gratuitously attacks flagship university.Maybe it’s time to start the phone lines buzzing in Harrisburg to push for complete reform of the PSU BoT.
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It started by our own state government making something completely unrelated all about football.
Could be. In 4 years, I NEVER went. But I hear good things.
I made it there once (and don’t remember why). I’ve stepped thru the doors of Pattee twice…one on my tour, and that one time I researched something in the stacks.
I will mention that I spent some time in the Math library in McAllister (throwing that in so that my mother isn’t totally disappointed in me).
I had Math 220, Linear Algebra, in McAllister. It was funny to hear the young Russian TA say 'eigenvector'
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