In-state tuition discounts could be nixed for students at four Pennsylvania state-funded universities - Jan Murphy, Penn Live

Pennsylvania could be on a path to becoming the most unaffordable state in the nation for students to pursue a college education. It's not a direction that Gov. Tom Wolf or state lawmakers say they want to head, but it's where their collective failure to agree on a revenue plan to fully fund the enacted $32 billion budget is taking us. Without any revenue from the state to fund Penn State, Pitt, Temple and Lincoln universities, officials from three of the four universities say they will be forced to end the tuition discount they offer to Pennsylvania students. At Penn State, for example, that tuition reduction saves students about $10,500, university officials say. The fourth, Lincoln, which depends on the state support to cover a quarter of its operating budget, chooses not to think about what action it might have to take. http://www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/10/budget_dispute_leaves_universi.html