by ephyra | Jan 15, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
The following is a Letter to the Editor from APSCUF Vice President, Ken Mash, which ran in the Pocono Record on January 13, 2013. Why does the prospect of a strike loom at East Stroudsburg University and the 13 other state-owned universities? It’s really quite...
by ephyra | Jan 14, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by ephyra | Jan 5, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by ephyra | Jan 4, 2013 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by ephyra | Dec 18, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
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....
by Kathryn Morton | Dec 14, 2012 | Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 14, 2012 For more information Contact: Lauren Gutshall 717-579-5359 APSCUF COACHES REACH TENTATIVE CONTRACT AGREEMENT WITH STATE SYSTEM Harrisburg – Late Wednesday evening, APSCUF coaches and the State System of Higher Education...
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...
