by ephyra | Dec 11, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by ephyra | Dec 3, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by ephyra | Nov 29, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by Kathryn Morton | Nov 27, 2012 | Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 27, 2012 For more information Contact: Lauren Gutshall 717-579-5359 APSCUF LEADERSHIP TO POSTPONE STRIKE CONSIDERATION UNTIL SPRING SEMESTER Below is the text from an open letter from APSCUF President Steve Hicks to students at the...
by Chris Reese | Nov 21, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
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 –...
by ephyra | Nov 16, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
On November 13, the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Postsecondary Education approved and released its final report and recommendations to create a multi-year framework for higher education in the Commonwealth. APSCUF commends the Commission on many of the 19...
by Kathryn Morton | Nov 15, 2012 | Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 15, 2012 For more information Contact: Lauren Gutshall 717-236-7486 x3014 APSCUF FACULTY APPROVE STRIKE AUTHORIZATION Vote empowers association leadership to call a strike Harrisburg – Today, faculty members at the 14 state-owned...
by ephyra | Nov 14, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
On Friday, PASSHE put out this statement about negotiations. Then they sent it to EVERYONE on campus Monday morning, which so happens to be the first day APSCUF was holding a strike authorization vote. It is clearly mere coincidence that they chose that timing to put...
by ephyra | Nov 9, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
APSCUF negotiators met with the Chancellor’s representatives today, Friday, November 9, 2012, at the Dixon Center in Harrisburg. With the strike authorization vote looming, PASSHE presented APSCUF with a new concessionary comprehensive proposal. The new...
by ephyra | Nov 5, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
By Catherine Whitley (EUP English & Theatre Arts) Sun Tzu (ca. 500 B.C.), Philip II of Macedonia (382-336 B.C.), and Julius Caesar (102-44 B.C.) are each credited with the first articulation of this very effective strategy: divide your enemies into smaller...
