Were this any other year, the leader of Pennsylvania’s 10 state-owned universities simply might have needed to defend next year’s appropriation request and explain how it would enable a sixth consecutive tuition freeze. Instead, State System of Higher Education Chancellor Daniel Greenstein faced sharp questioning from state senators Wednesday about a more sweeping matter beyond his control — a proposed unification of the state’s two- and four-year campuses and all the details about it yet to emerge from Gov. Josh Shapiro. The governor’s new blueprint for higher education, part of his state budget proposal unveiled on Feb. 6, appeared to leave Greenstein at a loss to address specifics during the two-plus hour Appropriations Committee hearing in Harrisburg.
