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Cheyney update: APSCUF calls for faculty involvement in Cheyney’s transformation, presidential search
Click here to read APSCUF’s statement about Cheyney University’s transformation and presidential search.
APSCUF summer intern excited to turn knowledge into action
Slippery Rock University student Lindsey Newton will work in the state office through August. Click here to learn more about future APSCUF internships.
Lindsey Newton is APSCUF’s government-relations and communications intern for summer 2017. She just completed her junior year at Slippery Rock University as a political science major.
Aside from her studies, Newton is active on campus. She is the co-founder and president of a new organization at Slippery Rock, the Young Progressives. She is also a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society.
“I am excited to bring knowledge from my studies into action, while gaining a new and unique perspective from the internship,” Newton said.
In her free time, she enjoys reading and trying out new coffee shops.
APSCUF welcomes faculty intern from Slippery Rock University
We are delighted to have Nan Nicholls, an associate professor at Slippery Rock University, as our faculty intern this week. She will be in the Harrisburg office interacting with staff members and observing the spectrum of union administration. Click here to learn more about APSCUF’s faculty and coaches orientation internships.
State System schools are an engine for upward mobility
The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center and Keystone Research Center‘s report released last month shares the type of positive news about our universities that has been lacking in recent months. “Pennsylvania’s Great Working-Class Colleges,” is the first installment of several reports, and its author, Mark Price, showcases how Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education universities serve working-class families and help propel graduates to a brighter future.
Providing our students with the best education possible — at an affordable price — is one of APSCUF’s core values.
- BU is exceptional and affordable (login required) in the Bloomsburg Press Enterprise
- Preserve state schools on TribLive
- Edinboro gave Saegertown man excellent foundation on GoErie.com
- Kutztown University delivers for students (login required) in the Reading Eagle
- State universities in Public Opinion
APSCUF resolution thanks and supports students
At our 190th legislative assembly, held last week in State College, APSCUF delegates from all 14 universities in Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education approved a resolution thanking students:
Resolution thanking and supporting students
Introduced by West Chester and Kutztown delegations
Whereas students and graduates across the country have an accumulated $1.3 trillion in student loan debt and students in Pennsylvania last year graduated with an average of more than $34,000 of student loan debt;
Whereas students and staff, like faculty, deserve to make living wages that respect their foundational role in building and sustaining State System universities;
Whereas the current student leaders of the Fight for 15 campus movement were the first students to organize and give their full support to the APSCUF faculty strike;
Whereas students, staff, and faculty have a common stake in keeping education adequately funded and affordable to everyone;
Be it resolved that APSCUF issue a statement articulating our gratitude to the students organizing the Fight for 15 for their efforts on our behalf during the strike; and supporting their goals of living wages and affordable education.