Bloomsburg

Pennsylvania's Commonwealth University plans to lay off faculty and staff next year.

As Anne Danahy from our friends at WPSU reports, the university expects the cuts to happen across its three campuses, Lock Haven, Mansfield, and Bloomsburg.

Commonwealth expects to lay off as many as one hundred and seventy-five people, seventy-five faculty and a hundred staff.

It's to, quote, "Create a financially sustainable university for the long term and address the institution's recurring structural deficit." The move to balance the budget comes at the direction of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.

Layoffs will take effect in July of twenty twenty-seven.

The university says retirements, resignations, and other savings may reduce the number of layoffs, and the overhaul will protect students' ability to complete their degrees.

Commonwealth University was created in twenty twenty-two, bringing together Lock Haven, Mansfield, and Bloomsburg universities.

The university is now dealing with a seventeen million dollar budget deficit, according to news reports.

You know what I mean? It's what him and his dad built, um, from the ground up, I guess you could say.

And, uh, they they started from pretty much nothing and now they have a really really nice operation and um yeah it means a lot it's you know he does everything basically the way his dad would probably want to do it um so that that's cool too and um it's it's been neat like like traveling around and um getting to meet people jacob's obviously got a lot of connections from being on the outlaw tour for how long he's been on on it so he knows a lot of people um out on the road and getting to meet those kind of people and different race car drivers different crew guys this past week when we were at Eldora we were supposed to run Kokomo Wednesday and it rained out but and then we were going to maintain Thursday well he's friends with Ricky Warner and um Kokomo is only like an hour away from Bloomsburg so where that where TSR is so we actually got to work um in Tony Stewart's race shop on the drag um side of it drag racing side of it so that was really really cool like that's just the cool stuff you get to do when um you get involved with people like that and we uh I got to go over to like um the sprint car side of the shop and see everything they had which was super neat um I got to talk to Ricky Warner and um about like different just about racism and I thought that was super cool because obviously he's he's had a lot of success he's a very very smart guy so it's cool just to talk to people like that it's cool to say I um worked on the 1a and Tony Stewart's race shop I who had ever thought that it's just it's crazy so um it's been super cool and I think uh Jacob helps me a lot with driving too because um unless you drive it's really hard to explain how intense and how hard racing is like everybody's out there to win everybody shows up to the track to win and obviously um only one person wins a night so it's easy to get down but Jacob knows like how hard I try I put a lot of effort into it and he understands that and like I said he knows how hard it is so um he really is good at not you know putting his head down and like and dwelling on bad runs he's like dude that's nothing like it I ran the outlaw tour for years until I finally got my first win and all that stuff so um it's really helped me a lot and um even the setup like obviously the cars work really really good it's his dad was super super smart and um You know, that's a confidence booster too because I feel like you can, you know, when you're racing guys, you're more comfortable with the car sticking and putting it where you want to go.

Like a few weeks ago at BAPS when we won, the car was glued and like that.

You're just so confident because, you know, you can like run it in underneath guys and they'll slide and they'll stick.

She worked in communications at the Pentagon and several other bases.

She worked for the former Del Monte Foods in Bloomsburg.

She was a member of the American Legion Post in Danville.

Sadly, preceded in death by her husband, Paul, and a son, Paul Jr., surviving her son, Lee, of Danville, Barbara Brocious.

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I sat on a bench at Bloomsburg.

Yeah.

And said, "What do I want to do?"