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PASCU Inc is Reaching Out to Students and Parents of Slippery University to Sign Up for the PASCU Newsletter
The Pennsylvania Association of State Colleges and Universities is strongly encouraging the students, families and alumni of Slippery Rock University to sign up for the PASCU newsletter. Our goal is to ensure that the statutory purpose of public higher education in Pennsylvania is preserved and delivered as promised. According to Act 188 of 1982, the State should provide High Quality Education at the Lowest Possible Cost to the Students”. The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), has failed in this mission and now we are working to correct it. We encourage students and family and alumni of Universities such as Slippery Rock to sign up for the PASCU newsletter so that they can better understand the changes that are going on.
Our goals and objectives are clear. We strive to preserve the statutory purpose of public higher education in Pennsylvania, high quality education at the lowest possible cost to the students, through education and advocacy, by reaching out to all stakeholders of Pennsylvania public higher education: students, parents, alumni, donors, faculty, staff, elected and appointed officials and the general public. We want people to sign up for the PASCU newsletter so that we can promote the legal rights of that segment of society which includes all PASSHE students, parents and donors, primarily alumni who, as a group have contributed the majority of the annual funding to the PASSHE universities in Pennsylvania starting since 1992 and continuing to the present day. To do this, we are collecting, analyzing and disseminating data and information on public higher education in Pennsylvania to all of its many stakeholders, with the goal of fostering open discussion, civil debate and effective public policy.
We encourage PASCU’s key constituencies, PASSHE students, parents and donors, primarily alumni and others who share PASCU’s values to sign up for the PASCU newsletter and make local and statewide elected officials and candidates for office aware that they support the mission, goals and objectives of PASCU and that they ask these officials and candidates for public office to do the same.
Additionally, we are maintaining a tireless and effective education campaign to inform PASSHE students, parents, alumni, donors and the general public about the drastic changes that have occurred to public higher education since the creation of the PASSHE system of universities by Act 188 of 1982. Also, we wish to engage in direct advocacy, to the degree permitted by law, by lobbying both elected officials in the legislative and executive branches of Pennsylvania government, as well as candidates for such elected office, to support PASCU’s mission goals and objectives.
