Students at Pennsylvania’s state-owned universities won’t see tuition increase next year under a unanimous vote today by the the system’s board. The State System of Higher Education’s Board of Governors passed what will be the fourth year of flat tuition, as the struggling system hopes the Legislature will approve hundreds of millions in additional funding in the 2022-23 state budget. Chancellor Daniel Greenstein said this week, ahead of the expected vote, “The state’s decision about our budget this year is existential for the state system, It will determine the future of higher educaiton in the state.” Greenstein has been overseeing reforms to the sprawling system that currently enrolls nearly 90,000 students.
