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		<title>Senate Bill 1293</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathryn Morton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Statement from APSCUF’s statewide legislative committee: On behalf of the nearly 5,000 faculty members and coaches the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF) represents at Pennsylvania’s state-owned universities, we OPPOSE Senate Bill 1293. Senate Bill 1293 is a solution in search of a problem. We invite the legislature to rethink these efforts [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Commonwealth University President Bashar Hanna</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathryn Morton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[APSCUF’s February 2025 legislative assembly approved the following resolution: Be it resolved that: Whereas, he has failed to lead Commonwealth University competently, and Whereas, under his leadership enrollment has dropped, and Whereas, the main action he took to increase enrollment through institutional aid increased the university’s debt and he continued the initiative despite warning from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Student debt cancelation</title>
		<link>https://www.apscuf.org/student-debt-cancelation/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathryn Morton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2022 18:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[APSCUF’s April 2022 legislative assembly approved the following statement about student debt: We, the Association of Pennsylvania State College and Universities Faculties (APSCUF), call on President Joe Biden to cancel all federally held student loan debt. Student debt is a crisis. Student debt has reached nearly $1.75 Trillion, approximately 92% of which is federally held [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Faculty concerns about working during the COVID-19 pandemic</title>
		<link>https://www.apscuf.org/faculty-concerns-about-working-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathryn Morton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2020 15:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[APSCUF’s July 2020 special legislative assembly approved the following resolution about faculty concerns about working during the COVID-19 pandemic. WHEREAS the COVID-19 pandemic has had, and continues to have, profound, unprecedented and unpredictable public health and economic effects on the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and WHEREAS we are firmly committed to the health and wellness of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Black Lives Matter</title>
		<link>https://www.apscuf.org/black-lives-matter/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathryn Morton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2020 19:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties has released the following statement through its executive council: On May 25, 2020, a convenience-store employee called 911 to report a man who had bought cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill. Within 20 minutes, the 46-year-old Black man, George Floyd, was killed by three, white Minneapolis [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Psychological services</title>
		<link>https://www.apscuf.org/psychological-services/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathryn Morton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[APSCUF’s February 2020 legislative assembly approved the following resolution about psychological services. Whereas the first responsibility of educators and universities is the well-being of students; Whereas facilities for psychological services across the State System are staffed far below the needs of our current students; Whereas incidents of suicide and the prevalence of various severe psychological [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Article 3 Advocate Programs</title>
		<link>https://www.apscuf.org/article-3-advocate-programs/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathryn Morton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[APSCUF’s September 2019 legislative assembly approved the following resolution about Article 3 Advocate Programs. Whereas Article 3 of the collective bargaining agreement states: “Neither party hereto nor any FACULTY MEMBER shall discriminate against any other FACULTY MEMBER or candidate for employment on the basis of race, creed, color, sex (including discrimination by sexual harassment), handicap [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action</title>
		<link>https://www.apscuf.org/black-lives-matter-at-school-week-of-action/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathryn Morton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[APSCUF’s September 2019 legislative assembly approved the following resolution about Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action. Whereas the APSCUF Statewide Social Justice Committee formally endorsed the National Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action in 2018; Whereas the APSCUF Legislative Assembly formally endorsed the National Black Lives Matter at School Week of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Open education resources</title>
		<link>https://www.apscuf.org/open-education-resources/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathryn Morton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[APSCUF’s February 2019 legislative assembly approved the following resolution to consider open-source course materials and promote awareness of open-source materials. Whereas the increase in textbook costs has far outpaced normal inflation, adding a significant financial burden to college students and their families. Whereas students increasingly avoid or delay purchasing textbooks and/or defer enrollment in courses due to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Shared governance</title>
		<link>https://www.apscuf.org/shared-governance/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathryn Morton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[APSCUF’s September 2018 legislative assembly approved the following statement about shared governance. Whereas faculty participation in important decisions for both individual State System universities and the State System as a whole is a core value of APSCUF; Whereas resistance to such participation both nationally and statewide has been growing, as politicians and administrators have increasingly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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