The State System of Higher Education has posted updated – and separate – implementation plans for the System Redesign, which will consolidate three universities in the west and three in the northeast into two entities.
The western plan merges California, Clarion, and Edinboro. The State System says it will have a single president and leadership team with one reporting relationship to the Board of Governors through the chancellor. Each campus will retain its use of the California, Clarion and Edinboro names and will share a “unified faculty…in a single academic program array.” Instruction will be both remote and face-to-face and the System promises a “comprehensive range of fully online programs”, including fully online undergraduate and degree-completion programs.
The northeast plan mirrors the western plan, with the planned integration of Bloomsburg, Lock Haven, and Mansfield universities.
Each of the implementation plans also included a summary of changes since the original Redesign was unveiled in April.
The State System Board of Governors will vote on the plan next week at its quarterly meeting. The mergers would take place starting with the fall 2022 semester.
Here are the links to the implementation plans and the changes since the introduction of the Redesign in April of this year:
https://www.passhe.edu/SystemRedesign/west/Pages/default.aspx
https://www.passhe.edu/SystemRedesign/northeast/Pages/default.aspx
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