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In-state tuition at the 14 state-owned universities of the State System of Higher Education will go up 4.5 percent this fall. The system's board of governors today approved the $250 increase, which will bring tuition to $5,804 for two semesters for in-state students. About 90 percent of the 117,000 students in the system are Pennsylvania residents. The tuition increase is part of a $1.5 billion budget for 2010-11. California, Clarion, Edinboro, Indiana, Lock Haven, Mansfield and Slippery Rock are among the 14 schools in the system. http://www.passhe.edu/executive/systemrelations/Communications/media/Pages/nrd.aspx?q=440

The State System of Higher Education board has approved the hiring of Karen Whitney as the next president of Clarion University. Whitney is a former vice chancellor at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. Two interim presidents also have been selected: David Werner at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Barbara Dixon at Lock Haven University. The board also extended the contracts of presidents at Bloomsburg, California , Cheyney, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Kutztown, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock and West Chester through June 2013. http://www.clarion.edu/178421/

HARRISBURG -- Agents from the Attorney General's Bureau of Narcotics Investigation along with local police officers from the Attorney General's Meth Task Force have arrested three people in connection with the search of a suspected meth lab, located in a Lock Haven hotel room. Attorney General Tom Corbett identified the defendants as Meloney Confer, 38, William Confer, 40 and Billie Jo Laubach, 37 all of Lock Haven, Clinton County. Corbett said the arrests were based on information about the defendants' alleged use of methamphetamine at the Fallon Hotel, 131 East Water St., Lock Haven. Agents executed a series of four search warrants on June 8, 2010, including Room 112 at the Fallon Hotel, the Confer's apartment, as well as Laubach's apartment, which had allegedly been used as the site for a meth lab. Nearly a gallon of liquid chemical meth or "meth oil" was seized from Laubach's residence. Corbett said that the meth oil could have been converted to mo...

On Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Lock Haven University held an Open House to celebrate the expansion of their Nationally Ranked, Master of Health Science: Physician Assistant program at the Charles Cole Memorial Hospital in Coudersport, PA. This May, twelve students will begin the intensive 24 month program to become certified as Physician Assistants at the Charles Cole Memorial Hospital facilities. The Open House featured remarks from the LHU Physician Assistant Program Director, Walter Eisenhauer. Attendees had the opportunity to tour the state of the art facilities that include faculty and staff offices, and classroom and laboratory spaces that utilize television quality, fully interactive, live broadcasts to provide curriculum between and among the four campus locations that deliver the program to students throughout Pennsylvania. Faculty and staff from Lock Haven University and the Charles Cole Memorial Hospital were available to answer questions about the program and facilities...