Dr. Jamie Martin was president of APSCUF from 2020 to 2022. She was the organization’s second elected woman president. APSCUF file photo
APSCUF is mourning the loss of Immediate Past President Dr. Jamie Martin, who helmed the organization from 2020 to 2022. She died Friday.
Martin led APSCUF through the pandemic, retrenchment, and consolidation. After her two-year term, she did not seek reelection due to medical treatment.
“I shudder to think where we might have been (given all that has transpired), had she not been in the leadership role exerting her steely resolve and giving all for her faculty and coach colleagues,” said Dr. Kenneth M. Mash, whose APSCUF presidency has bookended Martin’s, in 2022.
Martin was a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She served as chair of her department and once joked that she “was initially drawn to [criminology] because my parents thought it was a bad idea.”
Martin’s involvement in APSCUF started early: She served IUP APSCUF on the representative council, as grievance chair, as a member of meet-and-discuss, and on the executive council. She was an IUP APSCUF delegate to APSCUF’s legislative assembly. Also at the state level, Martin was an officer-at-large, vice president, and on faculty and coach negotiations teams. In 2020, she became the organization’s second elected woman president.
“I was so very lucky to have Jamie in my life, and all APSCUF members were fortunate to have a leader of her caliber to guide our union,” Mash told members this week.
As an APSCUF leader, Martin praised her colleagues, staff, and other supporters.
“My favorite part of the job is the people,” she said as she began her presidency in 2020.
As her presidency concluded in 2022, Martin wrote about the period and its challenges.
“I have been reflecting on transitions that we all face, both personally and professionally, in our lives,” she said in a message to members. “Some are painful, some are frightening, some are joyful, some are hopeful, and all result in change and growth.”
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