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.