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The Election: Perspective from Harrisburg
My first challenge is to talk about this without using the metaphor “changing landscape”…
Second, I will try to stick with the “facts” as few papers carry much news about the state legislature races and totals.
But let’s start with the gubernatorial election. I’m sure you all know that Attorney General Tom Corbett won, rather handily. In an earlier blog, I talked about the possibility of a Corbett regime that followed the New Jersey pattern. Wednesday Governor Christie announced layoffs of 1,200 (http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9J9CSAG0.htm). read more…
Retrenchment in the Trenches
I’d love to write some bits of political analysis on what’s going to happen with the State House races, but that can wait till another day.
Now, retrenchment sits heavy. First, the last two days Ken and I have been in membership meetings at Mansfield and East Stroudsburg — two of the three places where faculty received retrenchment letters last month. read more…
Senseless Retrenchment
The official APSCUF press release, full of quotes, etc, is just out about the latest on retrenchment: six people in three departments at Kutztown have received formal letters terminating their service with the university as of May 2011. HR departments across the system are sending job vacancy notices to APSCUF, as required by Article 29 of the contract. read more…
10 Take-aways from APSCUF/PSEA Labor & Higher Ed Conference
One point of holding a conference like this weekend’s APSCUF/PSEA Labor & Higher Ed Conference is to disseminate information. There are many venues to do so, but we thought we’d use this one to provide a snapshot into the conference from our perspective. As such, here are 10 ideas we brought from the conference, with just a brief contextual paragraph for each. Disclaimer: the author/speakers will forgive our probable misremembrance of their words. read more…
APSCUF BoG comments 1
A commitment to distance ed is not an appropriate investment in the basics of education, it’s an investment in distance.
Let’s transform in a way to retain our core mission & our source of pride & reputation — quality education with access to many.