Penn State's 2009 Right-To-Know Report-updated
As a result of last year's new Right-To-Know Law, Penn State and the other state-related universities must file a Right-To-Know Report each year with the state government. Each school must also post a copy in their library and online. Penn State hasn't made it easy to find their online version of the report, nor have they made it easy to use. The report is in a scanned pdf file which can't be searched. I've transformed it to a searchable pdf and posted it here.
Other than some salary data, which you have likely already read about, the report doesn't contain much information that can't be found elsewhere, at least I haven't seen much in my first read of the report. Its primary value is that it gathers this information together in a single place.[Update: I have more on what is in the report over at Left of Centre.]
By the way, we can thank Sen. Jake Corman (R-Old Main) for watering down the new law which in its first iteration, but not in the version which was signed into law, required state-related universities to respond to open record requests.
Graham likes to control information, hence it can be hard to get the accurate data that is needed to develop informed opinions about Penn State, which enjoys both tax-exempt status and large state subsidies. I would hope that the law is amended sometime soon to fully cover Penn State and the other state-related universities, since transparency is the best way to assure accountability.
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I've noticed both the gummit and corps like unsearchable pdfs
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Bill, I didn't mention this in my earlier posts, but the Penn State Financial Report for 2007-2008, which the Pennsylvania Department of Education has posted on their Web site and which I used to put together the tables of Penn State's legal expenses and its payments to the CDT, are in a series of scanned pdf's. The files are huge and I had to transform them as well, before I could easily extract the information for those tables. I haven't gotten around to posting the searchable versions yet, precisely because of their size.
The Financial Reports for both Temple and Pitt, which are also posted on the DOE Web site, are searchable. It's almost as if Old Main is run by Dick Cheney.
PS I usually disable rich-text because it doesn't work with FF spellchecker and I can use cut and past from the context menu. After previewing, the rich-text editor is re-enabled. When I disable it,the </pre> tag gets moved to the end of any text and I have to move it back to the top. What gives? Also, with the BBcodeXtra extension on FF you don't really need the rich-text editor."it's not a bug, it's a feature"
Those darn pre tags - "it's not a bug, it's a feature".
I just gave everyone the power to turn off the rich text editor - if you go to your account page, and click the EDIT tab, you should see a new link, called TINYMCE settings - click that, and it gives you the option to turn off the rich text editor - the "disabled" setting. Of course you can also turn it back on anytime by doing the same thing, but choosing "enabled".
Let me know if that fixes what you are experiencing.
I may turn off the pre (preformatted - it's supposed to let you post things and keep the formatting, but it's not reliable) option altogether.
Testing removing the <pre>
yadadada dada yadadada
Lets see if anyone misses it. I'm already glad it's gone, it will make my life a trifle easier.
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