INDIANA — More than 80 percent of the faculty at Indiana (Pa.) University have voted that they have "no confidence" in the school's president.

The results were released Friday at the IUP trustees meeting. About 84 percent of the 672 faculty who voted expressed "no confidence" in president Tony Atwater. A total of 777 faculty were eligible to vote.

Faculty critics say the school has spent too much on renovations and capital improvements during a rough economy.

Atwater has disputed the faculty union's claim that he has frozen the filling of vacant faculty positions this semester and has an "imperialistic" leadership style.

Atwater has been president since 2005.

STATE COLLEGE — Penn State trustees have approved the school's next appropriation request from the Legislature.The approval comes a day after the school learned it would receive its long-delayed state subsidies.A board of trustees' executive committee gave the OK Friday to seek $360.9 million from the state for 2010-11.That includes a roughly 4 percent increase for base appropriations and federal stimulus money to about $347 million. A school spokeswoman says it's the smallest increase request since at least 1964. Penn State says the increase covers just rising costs in an otherwise austere budget.Tuition increases would be limited to between 3 and 5 percent next year if Penn State gets its full request.The request must be ratified by the full trustees board.