Penn State recently announced that 12 of their Commonwealth campuses, including Penn State Schuylkill and Penn State Hazleton, could be closed after the 2026-27 school year. They created a committee to review the performance of these campuses and recommend closures by the end of the 2025 spring semester.
Our local delegation to the Pennsylvania General Assembly – me, and Reps. Jamie Barton, JoAnne Stehr, Tim Twardzik, Jamie Walsh, and Dane Watro – are all united in opposition to closing our local Penn State campuses. If this happened, it would jeopardize local jobs, harm the regional economy, and make it harder to earn a college degree in northeast Pennsylvania.
We will be sharing the results of this survey with Penn State leadership to show them how much of an impact Penn State Schuylkill and Penn State Hazleton have on our communities.