State Senator Jim Brewster has written a letter to State System of Higher Education Chancellor Dan Greenstein and Board of Governors Chair Cynthia Sha.
State Sen. Jim Brewster, D-McKeesport Thursday urged officials to pause vote on university consolidations.
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A spokesman for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education says there are no plans to delay or postpone next month’s scheduled vote that could be one of the final steps in consolidating six state-owned universities into two institutions.
System spokesman Cody Jones said Thursday that officials remain on target to vote on plans to consolidate the universities, despite pleas from anxious students and state Sen. Jim Brewster, D-McKeesport, who Thursday penned a letter, seeking a two-year pause in the process.
Jim Brewster, the McKeesport Democrat, has vivid memories of going to bed in December 2011 in his Allegheny County home and waking up to find his 45th Senate District had been moved across Pennsylvania to the Poconos. Strange things can happen when politics collides with the need to re-sketch district
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