By Richard Robbins It's all well and good for state Sen. Pat Stefano to criticize Penn State University for abandoning its Fayette County branch campus, as he did last Monday on this page, but the question is: what's next in store for the Route 119 campus, with its dozens of fine buildings and ...
Earlier this month, the Penn State football team broke a six-game losing streak to defeat Michigan State and claim the rivalry’s coveted Land Grant Trophy – an award established to honor the two universities as the first land-grant institutions in the United States. Both schools were ...
After Penn State listed the Fayette campus for potential closure in February, and enumerated the reasons in a report this month, those who call the campus home saw the end result coming. But faculty were still devastated Friday over the Penn State board of trustees’ vote Thursday night to ...
Penn State Fayette will be one of seven branch campuses closing after the university’s board of trustees voted 25 to 8 to do so during a Thursday evening virtual session. Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi said the decision was “deeply emotional” but ultimately the right thing to do ...
News of Penn State Fayette’s fate and that of the other 11 campuses slated for potential closure will not come until after graduation. Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi announced the delay in a statement Thursday. In her original February letter announcing the intent to close some ...
British author C.S. Lewis once said, "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts." And, for the past six decades, the faculty at Penn State Fayette has endeavored to do that. They’ve cultivated the chance for local, post-secondary education in an area ...
