President Neil D. Theobald will be in Harrisburg today, advocating on behalf of Temple’s annual commonwealth appropriation. The president will appear at the hearings before the House and Senate Appropriations committees with the leaders from the three other state-related schools—Pennsylvania State University, University of Pittsburgh and Lincoln University.

Once again, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett proposed no increase in the commonwealth’s appropriation for Temple and the other state-related schools during his budget address earlier this month. The university would receive an appropriation of $139.9 million under the governor’s proposal.

If approved by the General Assembly, this would be the third year in a row that Temple would have level funding from the commonwealth, after experiencing an 18 percent drop in state support in 2011.

Today’s Senate hearing is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m., with the House hearing set to start at 2 p.m. PCN will carry the hearings live on its broadcast channel (Comcast 186 on campus) and at pcntv.com.

Temple’s Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs also will live-tweet the hearings: @TUGovtAffairs.