Penn State board backs plan to close 7 campuses, saying low enrollment, financials leave no other choice

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Penn State’s Board of Trustees approved the closure of seven campuses Thursday, putting into motion a process that will impact thousands of students and more than 500 employees.

Citing declining enrollments and financial challenges, the university will close the DuBois, Fayette, Mont Alto, New Kensington, Shenango, Wilkes-Barre, and York locations after May 2027.

Ahead of the vote, President Neeli Bendapudi told the board that closing the locations was a strategic and humane decision.

“We are spreading our students, faculty, and staff so thin that we jeopardize the quality of education and the support that we can offer,” Bendapudi said. “We are subsidizing decline at the expense of growth.”

The board passed the president’s closure plan by a vote of 25 to 8.

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This comes as no surprise to anyone who's been following the PSU news in the past several months.