University of Pittsburgh trustees have responded to a second consecutive year of major cuts proposed by Gov. Tom Corbett in the school's state appropriation. The board passed a resolution authorizing campus leaders "to take such steps as are necessary to protect the overall quality and strength of the university in the face of a proposed escalation in the withdrawal of state support. . ." The resolution did not specify what those actions might be, and in a news conference afterward, Pitt Chancellor Mark Nordenberg said he could not predict what specific actions might flow from the resolution.
Pitt, in return for funding it receives as a state-related university, charges in-state students a tuition rate thousands of dollars below what non-Pennsylvanians pay.
