When students and professors return to budget-slashing colleges this fall, they might notice things missing, such as limitless piles of food on their plates, land-line phones and trash pickup.
At Penn State University, “all you can eat” meals have been slimmed down to “all you care to eat,” and two fewer dining halls offer them, spokeswoman Annemarie Mountz says. The marketing change is to encourage gastronomic restraint.
It may be hard to swallow, but budget-cutting is the new normal at the nation’s 6,700-plus post-secondary schools.