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Inside Higher Ed on the Health of the Humanities
Today's Inside Higher Ed has a story on "Liberal Arts I: They Keep Chugging Along" (see http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2010/10/01/connor) continues the strand I have been pushing in this forum for some weeks -- where is higher education heading and what...
NOV 2nd Is Coming: Is New Jersey Coming Too?
Yes, the election is 5 weeks from yesterday. And we at APSCUF need to be watching. The poll out from former APSCUF president Terry Madonna's center at Franklin & Marshall yesterday shows Republican Tom Corbett 4 points up on the Democratic contender, Dan...
Faculty Negotiations Team
At Friday's Legislative Assembly, the delegates approved Ken Mash (ESU) & Beth MacDaniel (Clarion) to serve as the two faculty members on the faculty negotiations team. They join me (ex officio) as the faculty representatives on the team. The Assembly also...
Retrench When? When They Want To!
In a recent blog entry I noted that, given the important role that tenure plays in protecting academic freedom, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) asserts that removal of tenure because of an institution's financial distress should...
Newman, Idea of a University, and Knowledge for its Own Sake
I was surprised to see Inside Higher Ed referencing Cardinal Newman in their latest edition ("How Would Newman Fare Today?" http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/09/17/newman) -- admittedly, I don't keep up with the announcements about beatification out of the...
Donoghue on Humanities in The Chronicle: What is a university?
Frank Donoghue's article in the Chronicle is misguided: he forgets the public good that comes from broad-based public higher education. Frank Donoghue's recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (Can the Humanities Survive the 21st Century?...
PASSHE’s Administrative Bloat: Just How Many Managers Does It Take?
Sometimes it's just plain hard to not snicker, smirk, or just outright laugh. As our PASSHE officials and local managers preach about dire financial situations, as they strip away release time and pare down summer schools, as they...
PASSHE’s Ad Hoc Retrenchment Threatens Us All
Stripping faculty of tenure is a serious matter. It ought not done based on dire predictions of what might happen; it should only occur, as the AAUP says, “under extraordinary circumstances because of a demonstrably bona fide financial exigency, i.e., an imminent...