by apscuftest | Nov 30, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
[Ed’s note: we’d blog about retrenchment, but as it’s Nov. 30th, the day before one of the deadlines for retrenchment letters to go to faculty as defined by the CBA, we thought we’d wait and see what tomorrow brings…fingers crossed. ...
by apscuftest | Nov 24, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
In keeping with the season, we thought we’d do our own little Thanksgiving list: We’re thankful for the staff at APSCUF. We’re thankful we aren’t public university faculty in New Jersey, where we’d have to figure out which 7 days we weren’t working & not getting...
by apscuftest | Nov 23, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
Yesterday Ken and I had lunch in Harrisburg. That’s not terribly unusual, or blog-worthy. But yesterday we were joined by a couple of faculty members from private universities, who were in town and we took the opportunity to have lunch and talk about...
by apscuftest | Nov 9, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
Who exactly is responsible for retrenchment? Is it the state government, whose officials have not adequately funded the state system? Is it PASSHE’s Board of Governors who refuse to raise tuition despite evidence that tuition is needed to keep...
by apscuftest | Nov 5, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by apscuftest | Nov 2, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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...
