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Campus Equity Week 2013: Stand Up. Speak Out. Organize.
Campus Equity Week begins today and will end on Friday, November 2. This year’s theme is Stand Up. Speak Out. Organize. Around the country, faculty organizations are building awareness about the issues facing temporary faculty members. We have seen that the online...
Media Roundup: Students at Edinboro University rally for answers about faculty layoffs
Yesterday at Edinboro University, students rallied in solidarity with faculty members facing retrenchment. Students waited outside of President Julie Wollman’s office and requested real answers on the future of their education. They pointed out that classes are...
Faculty and students call on legislature to restore funding to the State System of Higher Education
“In 2011 the State System’s appropriation was cut by $90 million. For the past two years we’ve seen flat-funding and minimal tuition increases. Now our universities are facing financial difficulties, and they are choosing to cut programs, faculty, and staff at the...
Students beware!
By Dr. Ken Mash, APSCUF Vice President Over the last several years, administrative leaders have implied that universities ought to emulate businesses and prioritize efficiency. In recent weeks this argument reached a high point when at one of our universities...
Thoughts on the state of the profession
By Leigh Smith Dear colleagues, What I have to share with you is both intensely personal and urgently political. The private tragedy that probably awaits me is, I believe, a single manifestation of a public disaster that we--meaning people in our profession--are the...
Join Us for APSCUF Lobby Days
APSCUF will be hosting lobby day events on Tuesday, October 15 and Wednesday, October 16, 2013. Lobby day kicks off with a legislative reception on Tuesday evening from 5:30-8:30pm at Ceoltas Irish Pub. Wednesday morning begins...
Universities must prove financial reasons for retrenchment
It is mid-September and seven universities in the system (Cheyney, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Kutztown, Mansfield, & Slippery Rock) still have retrenchment letters active. If you have been paying attention the last three years, these letters, due...
Edinboro becomes second state-owned university to propose faculty layoffs
Today the president of Edinboro University released a strategic plan that includes the elimination of 40 faculty positions. The administration publicly released the plan prior to meeting with the campus chapter of APSCUF. Edinboro is the second state-owned university...