WHAT YOU CAN DO

The next PSU Board of Trustees Meeting is Nov 6 and 7 at University Park.

 Let's take the following actions by mid-October!

Sign the SAVE WPSU Petition at Change.org. -- Sign and then share widely on social media platforms you use as well as to your email contacts.

Write an email to the members of the PSU Board of Trustees. - It doesn't have to be long.  Here are ideas of information you might include.  Pick what is most important and applies to you.  Names & Email Addresses for PSU Board Members are in the linked chart.  You can highlight and copy the email column and paste in your email, sending one email to all of them.  I'm told a few of the addresses bounced back, but that's won't prevent it getting to the rest of the board.

• Value to you personally: 

  • Always on radio in car, use WPSU Passport for entertainment & education

  • Contributor to WPSU, or donor to PSU and the impact

  • favorite show, depend on Weather World, children watch...

• PSU positive impact on Pennsylvania citizens - closure of WPSU is negative impact

• Board Rejected transfer to WHYY  because of cost ($17 million over 5 years = $3.4 million/year) and no job security for all current WPSU employees. WHYY was a solution, and your solution is no jobs for WPSU employees!

• No public input was taken on closure

• Are there endowments contributed and earmarked for local public broadcasting? What happens to money contributed? 

• Closing campuses, raising PSU Presidents salary 47%, but no money for public broadcasting

Write a letter to the editor of your local news outlet or an outlet in Pennsylvania you follow.

• Centre Daily Times

• State College.com

• Daily Collegian (PSU student newspaper) Send email to:   letters@psucollegian.com  Be sure to include full contact information

• Altoona Mirror

• The Express (Lock Haven)

• The Daily News (Huntingdon County)

Contact local and state officials and ask for their support and voice.

• U.S. Senator Fetterman - DC office: ‭(202) 224-4254‬

• U.S. Senator McCormick - local office: ‭(814) 357-0314‬

• U.S. Representative Glenn Thompson (15th Cong. District) - local office: ‭(814) 353-0215‬

• PA Governor Josh Shapiro - Harrisburg Office (717) 787-2500

• PA Senators and Representatives

  • Rep. Paul Takac (PA State District 82) - local office: ‭(814) 308-0569‬

  • Sen. Cris Dush (PA State District 25) - local office: ‭(814) 355-0477‬

• Mayor of your town

• Township Supervisors

Map of the coverage for WPSU - share the news and this web page with your friends and family who will be impacted by this closure.