Edinboro U. gets $1M promise

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania announced Thursday that it received a $1 million commitment from the state for a manufacturing engineering program.

[Scott]

Amazing. Great job Edinboro to lobby for the needs of NW PA

[jocie]

edinboro isnt that great

[Ralph]

jocie, what are you doing to better the NWPA region? I also commend Edinboro for finding money to improve the region. A better workforce will help to bring working class jobs BACK. It may be cheaper to send them to Mexico, but if they can get it done better and quicker and safer in NWPA, they will come

[lakerman1]

Wait! Wait! I thought the state was going to fund the pizza boy county executive's goofy community college to offer such associates' degrees? Is the state undercutting the pizza boy here?

(Not very nice to see our taxpayer dollars competing with ourselves.)

[Ralph]

Community colleges don't train manufacturing workers. They train secretaries, preschool teachers, semi-professional positions, etc.

[lakerman1]

Ralph, you are extensively wrong. As a starting point, you might look at butler community college, which has a manufacturing technology program. community colleges train nurses, engineering technology, and a number of othe professions.
Since you are posting without knowledge, you might want to go over to a sports forum. No knowledge is required there, just opinion.

[Ralph]

Okay I stand corrected on what Butler County offers. Last I checked, this isn't Butler County, nor does it have a city anywhere the size of Erie.

There is no point in using our public dollars to fund a community college that will develop programs that will directly compete against other publicly funded programs.

Let the community college train secretaries, entry level nurses, cooks and chefs, etc. Those are needs not currently entertained by public post-secondary education in NWPA.

[lakerman1]

Ralph, you missed something here. The president of butler county community college went to our county executive, the pizza man, and offered to set up a community college center in erie, just as butler has done in several other locations in western pa. The cost to the county was zero. ZERO!and the county executive said no.
Instead, he is forging ahead, currently paying consultants over $100,000 to fill out an application to the state, to establish yet another attempt at a community college (two here in erie county have failed in the past) and wants to build a campus on leased land. LEASED LAND!
These idiots in county government will spend about 7 million dollars a year, forever, on this stupid idea!(or until it fails, like the other two did, at a cost of at least 18 million dollars!)

[Ralph]

I don't doubt the incompetence of Erie government officials - my point was on the competing money.

[lakerman1]

ralph, I agree. the competition may be taking place between two agencies in harrisburg!

[Ralph]

Unfortunately, any money that is given out in both of these situations is going to come as some form of pork or addition to a piece of legislation. It should be given as a grant through the appropriate state department - obviously in this case the department of education. For the last 30+ years, the PA Dept of Education has had almost no involvement in post-secondary education.