From Staff Reports
LOCK HAVEN While trustees of Lock Haven University do not have any vote in the proposed integration of LHU, Mansfield and Bloomsburg universities, The Express recently asked each trustee a set of questions to gauge their thoughts on the ongoing process.
The Board of Governors meets this Wednesday in Harrisburg to receive the integration plans.
Receipt of the consolidation proposals which culminate months of meetings by multiple task forces established by PASSHE triggers a 60-day public committee period before the board is scheduled to act on integration in July.
LHU trustees include: Daniel Elby, chairman; Mary Coploff, vice chair; Mike Hanna Jr., secretary; Margery Brown Dosey; Krystjan Callahan; John Gower; James Gregory; Albert Jones; Angela Smith; Mark Stern and Mia Swales.
From Staff Reports
LOCK HAVEN While trustees of Lock Haven University do not have any vote in the proposed integration of LHU, Mansfield and Bloomsburg universities, The Express nonethless recently asked each trustee a set of questions to gauge their thoughts on the ongoing process.
Faced with declining enrollments, stagnant state funds vs. increasing payroll and operating costs, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education set out two years ago to right-size those schools with enrollment under 10,000 by mandating, among other things, a balanced budget.
The result has been and continues to be multiple furloughs of faculty and staff across most of the system.
Any new site would take many years to develop, amid what is likely to be intense local opposition wherever is chosen. “It is therefore a reasonable assumption that achievement of the necessary planning permissions would be testing or impossible,” Gower said.
An alternative would be to try to base Trident at King’s Bay in Georgia, in the US, where Britain’s nuclear submarines go to pick up missiles from a common pool, or possibly with the French nuclear fleet at Ile Longue, in Brittany. Such ideas are, however, “highly speculative” and would be controversial and legally fraught.
“There appear to be no prima facie absolute blocks to an overseas basing” of Trident, Gower wrote, “although the concept is insufficiently understood by experts.” It would be “virgin territory” for national and international regulators “as well as the provisions of the NPT [nuclear non-proliferation treaty]”.
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A Forgotten Little Corner of Wood Green
Posted by Hugh on August 12, 2020 at 10:40 in History of Harringay
It s odd how my history journey goes. I seem to hit these patches when I keep getting drawn back to a particular small area time and again, even when I have no particular interest in it. When this happens, I tend to go with the flow and let fate take me where it will.
Recently, I ve been pulled back a number of times the block of land between Wood Green High Road and Lordship Lane. First I wrote a piece about the Chesser Blacksmithing family then a few months later, I found myself just next door following up about the Alsford Wood Merchants who got their start in Hampden Road, Harringay and then moved on to a large building on Lordship Lane just round the corner from the High Road.