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A 50 percent budget cut proposed Tuesday by Pennsylvania's governor could force Pennsylvania State University to shutter some of its 24 campuses, the university's president said at a news conference Wednesday. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette quoted Graham Spanier as calling such an outcome a "distinct possibility," saying that the cutback, which he and other college leaders vowed to fight, would threaten the "viability" of some of the university's regional campuses. A spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, meanwhile, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that the state-college system was not considering closing any of its campuses, despite a Democratic lawmaker's prediction that Governor Tom Corbett's proposed cut could compel such a result.
