Pittsburgh public safety crews serve addresses regardless of tax status, but some high-call-volume locations — including dorms — don’t generate taxes to support them.
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Another Pittsburgh promise?
Payments from “eds and meds” would bring millions to Pittsburgh Public Schools, allowing district to slash deficit and consider “wonderful things.”
Posted inTampa Bay
Housing costs pricing out new hires for USF St. Petersburg
Tampa Bay has one of the most overvalued rental markets. The new regional chancellor said a possible solution could be temporary subsidized housing.
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Who decides the future of Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood?
Should the Oakland of tomorrow be a place where children play in sunny yards or where towers cater to students and “eds and meds” workers? Seven perspectives illustrate the stresses facing the booming center of Pittsburgh’s tax-exempt growth.
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Carnegie Mellon grad student growth driving plans for even denser campus
Carnegie Mellon University presented its 10-year development plan to the City Planning Commission, in a process that will continue into September.
Posted inColorado
Rural Colorado students go to college at low rates. Tiny Fowler goes against the trend.
The town shows how a partnership among educators, parents, and the broader community can foster the idea that college will contribute to success — whether or not graduates return home.
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City and county controllers call for greater payments from big eds and meds
The county’s five largest nonprofits, including three universities, pay 11% of what they would owe in property taxes if they didn’t receive exemptions and abatements.
Posted inOhio
University of Akron and its city form new group to advance cooperation
“The city and the university are intertwined at many levels,” the mayor said, “and the future of our region depends on each of us thriving.”
Posted inMile Markers
A rural town with two HBCUs and no movie theater
Those two universities present tremendous opportunities for rural Orangeburg, S.C., but the city has long let the area around them deteriorate. A new project brings hope of making this into more of a college town that serves its students.
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What Cleveland’s new mayor could mean for higher ed
The mayoral transition comes at a pivotal point: The pandemic amplified existing enrollment struggles at many schools. Many college students are dealing with issues outside the classroom that can impact what happens inside it. And the state has an ambitious goal of having 65% of its residents earn a certificate, credential, or degree by 2025.