State System of Higher Education Chancellor Dan Greenstein has not blogged as much this year as in previous years, but he’s now written his second blog of 2023, looking back to the academic year that was and forward to the new academic year, and to his “second tour of duty” as he refers to it now that the State System has renewed his contract following his first five years.
In a long reflection, he expresses gratitude for progress made, particularly with the State System Redesign, but he also shares some very real concerns about the future. Perhaps most pressing, he writes that PASHE is beginning the year “$31 (million) short of anticipated cost increases not including labor costs”.
Greenstein writes that the fiscal concerns mean the State System will have to “continue making difficult trade-off decisions” and will also need to continue to grow, both in enrollment and in the proportion of students who complete their education.
Greenstein writes that the State System’s student retention and graduation rates are average for like universities, but he says “we are anything but average. We are nothing short of extraordinary.”
Read the chancellor’s blog, his first since February:
