Asked what if there were no state aid, Pitt, Penn State said they would go private with no discounts to state students - Steve Esack, Mcall

During a state Senate budget hearing, lawmakers grilled the universities’ top officials about everything from security to protests to opioid prevention to student careers after graduation, to justify the latter’s requests for a combined 19 percent increase in state aid to $672.8 million. Not until the end of the 2½-hour hearing did a lawmaker address the budgetary elephant in the room: How would your institutions cope if the state stopped providing money as some lawmakers have advocated? http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-nws-budget-penn-state-temple-pitt-20180227-story.html