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Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
Who Guards the Guardians? Today's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story on the spending habits of IUP's former President raises important questions about who exactly monitors the University Presidents and the upper echelons of their...
Efficiency v. capacity
I am just back from a week in California, ostensibly to attend AAUP's annual Summer Institute. While in California, one can't help but hearing about the shifts going on in higher ed there (especially with rooms full of California faculty), and begin to see trends with...
What’s FMAP, and why should you care?
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate ended its filibuster on FMAP, and Speaker Pelosi quickly announced that she would be calling the House back into session to vote on the legislation. The legislation gives $16 billion to the states to support Medicaid, and it also...
Guest Post: What is Guiding Higher Education in Pennsylvania? By Peter Pruim
What is Guiding Higher Education in Pennsylvania? During the past year the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) ordered universities in the state system to complete a review of department programs with lower numbers of majors in order to justify...
The Board of Governor’s Split Personae – IUP Style
Yesterday's Board of Governor's Meeting ended with a farcical flourish. The Board passed a resolution, complete with certificate, and standing ovations to honor Dr. Tony Atwater's contributions to IUP. Dr. Atwater, lest anyone forget, "resigned" after a...
Comments of State APSCUF President Steve Hicks to the PASSHE Board of Governors
This is the 3rd July meeting for which I’ve been state APSCUF president. I’ve spoken the last two Julys about tuition; you won’t be surprised today that I’m speaking about it again. In fact, since you probably read all my messages to faculty, you probably know what...
Comments of State APSCUF Vice President Ken Mash to the PASSHE Board of Governors
Some fifty years ago, the great professor and teacher Leo Strauss of the University of Chicago said that a, “Liberal [arts] education . . . is a training in the highest form of modesty, not to say of humility.” It is with humility, that I say on behalf of my...
IUP Management Surprises Local APSCUF with Retrenchment Reference
The only item on Monday’s Meet and Discuss Agenda at IUP was “Budget Concerns for FY 10-11 and 11-12.” When Susan Drummond, IUP-APSCUF President, received the request for a meeting from IUP Vice President of Human Resources Helen Kennedy, Drummond specifically asked...