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...
by apscuftest | Aug 6, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by apscuftest | Aug 5, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by apscuftest | Jul 27, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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...
