Wall Street on the Susquehanna: PASSHE Bond Scheme Bleeds Budget for...
This originally appeared in Raging Chicken Press on October 21, 2013. It is a fairly long article detailing changes in Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) policies regarding new...
View ArticleTrading Academics for Amenities: Move Over Faculty, Make Way for the Hot Tubs
Note: This was originally published on Raging Chicken Press earlier today. I did my PhD work at Miami University. No, not in Florida – Miami University in Oxford, OH. There was a t-shirt in the...
View ArticlePA State Senators Crafting Legislation to Allow Universities to Secede from...
Author’s Note: A version of this post was publish on Raging Chicken Press under the title, “Slow Train to Destruction of Public Higher Ed in PA?: Defund then Divide-and-Conquer,” on Saturday, Feb. 22....
View ArticleAPSCUF Contract Impasse Continues
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Writing for the Reading Eagle, David Mekeel reports that Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF), the union representing the faculty of the 14...
View ArticleNegotiations Breakdown: PASSHE Sets Stage for First Ever Faculty Strike
BY KEVIN MAHONEY Faculty union members at the 14 Pennsylvania state-owned universities (PASSHE) have had just about enough. Following three consecutive days of marathon negotiating sessions on Tuesday...
View ArticlePA Faculty Union To Make "Important Announcement" in Facebook Live Event,...
BY KEVIN MAHONEY APSCUF, the faculty union representing faculty at the 14 universities of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), announced a short time ago that union leaders will...
View ArticlePA Faculty Harden Resolve and Move Closer to Strike
BY KEVIN MAHONEY In the morning session of APSCUF’s Legislative Assembly meeting, faculty delegates received the unvarnished news about the state of negotiations from the union’s chief negotiator...
View ArticleAAUP Supports APSCUF in Struggle for Quality Education, Fair Contract
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following statement was issued by Rudy Fichtenbaum, President of the American Association of University Professors, and Howard Bunsis, chair of the AAUP Collective...
View ArticleAPSCUF Makes Contract Concessions for Quality Education; Ends Strike
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following is the text of a media release issued this afternoon by the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF): The strike is over....
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