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[quote=Anonymous]I have a friend who is a professor at Indiana U of PA, which is an hour or so from Pittsburgh. Another acquaintance who teaches at Slippery Rock. They are both really happy-the focus is really on teaching and their tenure process is not so crazy competitive so the staff are less pressured and stressed like they might be at a larger state school. The classes are small so they can really gets to know their students (not all of them obviously).

The negatives are that many of them are in really small towns with very little to do. At least at IUP the student body is split between kids from Pittsburgh and Philly and kids who grew up within 50 miles of campus and have never been outside the state. There is currently a lot of tension between the entire PASSHE system staff and the chancellor over wages. They all went on strike last year. Tuition (while still low) is expected to increase more rapidly, and the universities have felt pressure to raise money buy building fancy dorms and adding fees etc to recoup costs because they are getting less state money.[/quote]

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