Leaders of Pennsylvania’s 14 state universities are weighing a change in allocating hundreds of millions of dollars in yearly state appropriation to more closely focus on student success, generally, and support first-generation, low-income and underrepresented minority students. The State System of Higher Education’s board of governors will meet in special session Wednesday morning in Harrisburg to consider what leaders, including Chancellor Daniel Greenstein, hope will help reverse enrollment declines from households with incomes $75,000 and less — part of a demographic for whom the State System was founded in 1983 to serve.
