by ephyra | Oct 29, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
By Amy Lynch-Biniek, Associate Professor of English, Kutztown University For the past two years, I’ve been working on a qualitative study of contingent teachers. In particular, I’ve been examining how temporary faculty and permanent faculty choose text...
by ephyra | Oct 28, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by ephyra | Oct 25, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by ephyra | Oct 17, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
“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...
by ephyra | Oct 14, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by ephyra | Oct 9, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by ephyra | Sep 27, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by ephyra | Sep 17, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by ephyra | Sep 11, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by ephyra | Sep 5, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
Since spring 2010, various PASSHE universities have grappled with retrenchment, part of the process of which is to provide the faculty union a list of departments to be evaluated as the administration deals with “changes that could lead to retrenchment”...
