Penn State's 'Student Facilities Fee'

I’ll be on the “Pennsylvania Television Network” (PSN-TV) tonight, discussing a new student fee that the administration at Penn State University is looking to implement. This was my second interview with “The U” on PSN-TV this year, and it’s been a sincere pleasure to sit down with the fine men and women on both sides of the cameras at PSN.

The topic of discussion, the “Student Facilities Fee,” would impose an annual $200 tax upon all students — undergraduates and graduates alike — in order to fund what administrators have only vaguely elaborated upon as “non-classroom space”, which in practice will likely mean new recreation space.

We’ve been following the story of the Student Facilities Fee closely at Safeguard Old State (SOS), a student-alumni advocacy group focused on empowering students at Penn State and reforming administrative bureaucracies that serve, typically unintentionally, to degrade the quality of the University.

I’ll be sure to publish a digital version of the interview if I can get my hands on a copy of the segment later this week.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23GduU2WjwE]

UPDATE (April 12) – We had our tech guy at Safeguard Old State upload the interview earlier today after getting it from PSN-TV. How did I do?