The search for new leadership of the Greensburg YMCA will be suspended until at least next year as officials continue efforts to strengthen the financial health and operational structure at the downtown facility. Board president Sydney Beeler confirmed this week that an agreement with the Greater Pittsburgh YMCA to serve
A leadership team from the YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh will evaluate and oversee the YMCA of Greensburg for the next four months while it seeks a new CEO, leaders said Wednesday. Following the departure of Suzanne Printz, the Greensburg YMCA’s outgoing CEO, the Pittsburgh location will “provide executive leadership for
The Greensburg YMCA will host a public meeting on Thursday and again on Feb. 24 to get feedback on what people want from the facility and how the YMCA can meet the needs of the community. “We really want to hear from the community, what they feel they need and
Colleges across the region, ranging from the University of Pittsburgh to local community colleges, are mirroring troubling national trends in enrollment. In a development experts say could lead to gaps in the workforce and affect the nation’s economic health for years to come, college enrollment is down overall for the
Community college enrollment booms when the economy busts.
That was an accepted fact, proven time and again during the cycles that characterize the U.S. economy. But the covid-19 pandemic, which sent the world into a series of lockdowns, shattered that pattern.
Although the region’s community colleges were expecting an enrollment surge last fall, they saw just the opposite, as did community colleges across the country.
While enrollment in postgraduate degree programs inched up sufficiently to offset undergraduate enrollment declines at many of the region’s four-year institutions, enrollment at community colleges, the two-year public institutions that are a gateway to higher education for hundreds of thousands of Americans, declined.