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Negotiators make progress; still divided on significant issues
APSCUF and PASSHE negotiators met on Friday, January 11. The parties reached several tentative agreements affecting compensation. Other discussion centered on distance education, curriculum committees, and class size. Although there has been...
Progress made during latest negotiations session; health care remains an issue
APSCUF and PASSHE negotiators met for six hours on Friday, January 4, 2013. The meeting was marked by several long breaks as the APSCUF team waited for the Chancellor's representatives to present counter proposals. There was some important progress;...
PASSHE’s Continued Healthcare Distortions
The Chancellor’s representatives repeatedly make specious claims about the System’s contributions to faculty health care. As a public academic institution, PASSHE ought to be more careful about spreading misleading information to our students and the public. Perhaps...
December 19th Faculty Negotiations Cancelled
APSCUF and PASSHE have agreed to cancel the faculty contract negotiations session scheduled for December 19th in Philadelphia. Last week, APSCUF requested that the meeting be cancelled if the Chancellor’s representatives were not prepared to make a counter proposal....
APSCUF frustration with contract negotiations grows
On December 11, the APSCUF negotiations team met with the Chancellor’s representatives for the first time since the faculty at PASSHE’s fourteen universities overwhelmingly voted to authorize their leadership to call a strike. APSCUF negotiators had met internally to...
Email Blitz: Tell the Chancellor to Be Fair
Please take a few minutes today, December 3rd, to join united faculty in an email blitz to the Chancellor urging him to be fair. Please use the text from this template, prepared by APSCUF, and personalize it with your own name and university. The consistency of the...
Join CUNY faculty in the fight against “Pathways”
Today AAUP President Rudy Fichtenbaum put out a call for all faculty to sign a national petition advocating for a moratorium on the adoption of a CUNY program called Pathways. CUNY faculty have been fighting the implementation of the program, which would impact...
Burns me up…
Yesterday’s edition of Inside Higher Ed brought a story out of Pennsylvania that is both disheartening and a bit embarrassing. It seems that the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) has announced that it will reduce the teaching load of 200 adjunct faculty –...