University of Pittsburgh students, parents, faculty, and alumni gathered in Harrisburg Tuesday to lobby lawmakers for more funding for the university and to highlight the school?s success?stories.?
State Senator Jay Costa (D-Allegheny County) spoke to those gathered in the capitol rotunda for the annual ?Pitt Day at the State Capitol? and told them their efforts are key to making sure that state-related schools like Pitt can ?provide an adequate education for all of you at a reasonable?cost."
Costa is a member of the University?s Board of Trustees and is the parent of a Pitt alum.? ?The issue we have faced over the past several years as it relates to higher education funding has been very difficult,? said Costa. ?We have to convince my colleagues in the general assembly that we have to do?more.?
In his budget address last week, Gov. Corbett pledged not to cut funding to Pitt and the other state-related universities in the 2013-2014 state budget with the request that the schools do everything they can to keep tuition costs increases as small as possible.? Pitt?s state allocation is currently set at $136 million after being cut by 18% in?2011.
At the same event Costa praised the University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics for the impact it has had on the operations of the commonwealth.? Costa said every year he sees interns from the program pass through the halls of the capitol and then watches as they land jobs in government and win elections in communities across the?state.
Source: http://wesa.fm/2013/02/12/pitt-swarms-capitol-sen-costa-rallies-troops
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