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APSCUF faculty members speak to Senate Appropriations Committee, address how state budget cuts are affecting their students and classrooms
Today, the state Senate Appropriations Committee, chaired by Sen. Jake Corman, held a public hearing on the impact of state budget cuts to the 14 universities of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Three APSCUF members testified at today’s hearing: read more…
PA budget impacts on campus
The 2011-12 state budget cut funding for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education by more than $90 million — resulting in a 7.5 percent tuition hike for students. The 14 state-owned universities have also seen larger class sizes and fewer faculty and staff this year.
PA’s state-owned universities cope with budget cuts: Fall 2011 APSCUF member survey results
When Gov. Tom Corbett signed the 2011-12 budget into law this summer, APSCUF expressed its concern that the 18 percent cut for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) would hurt educational quality for our students. At the time, this is what we said: read more…
High student debt + no jobs = ???
The issue of student debt is central to what we stand for at APSCUF and in the statute that created the state system of higher education: we are supposed to be “affordable.”
This rally in Philadelphia, and those like it, indicates there is at least some failure on the part of the Commonwealth at following that tenet, or else there’d be no impetus for such a rally. read more…
Senate Education Committee discusses proposals to update PA State System of Higher Education
The Senate Education Committee, chaired by Sen. Jeff Piccola, held a hearing today on a package of bills championed by Sen. Andy Dinnimanthat would update state law related to the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). There are currently six bills; each one is sponsored by a senator who represents a PASSHE institution or is a trustee at one of the universities. read more…