by apscuftest | Sep 25, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by apscuftest | Sep 22, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by apscuftest | Sep 19, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by apscuftest | Sep 14, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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?...
by apscuftest | Sep 12, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by apscuftest | Aug 30, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by apscuftest | Aug 25, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
Today’s newsflash from Inside Higher Ed is an article titled “Dollars and Sense” (http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/08/25/budgeting). This article makes a virtue out of a mantra of “no margin, no mission.” This piece of news...
by apscuftest | Aug 24, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
Those of you who read the Chronicle frequently might have seen the front page article in the Aug. 13 edition. Here it is for those of you who haven’t seen it: http://chronicle.com/article/Can-Gates-Foundations-Mill/123824 . What is revealed in the article...
by apscuftest | Aug 21, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
Even before yesterday’s Meet & Discuss meeting, word had trickled out that PASSHE University’s were being asked by the OOC (Office of the Chancellor) to prepare for budget scenarios that could include cuts in state appropriations as deep as 15% for the...
by apscuftest | Aug 15, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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...
