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Ravitch, Gates & What Education Is, with thread to WS
[Ed's note: we'd blog about retrenchment, but as it's Nov. 30th, the day before one of the deadlines for retrenchment letters to go to faculty as defined by the CBA, we thought we'd wait and see what tomorrow brings...fingers crossed. Four schools (KU, Mans, ESU...
What we’re thankful for…2010
In keeping with the season, we thought we’d do our own little Thanksgiving list: We’re thankful for the staff at APSCUF. We’re thankful we aren’t public university faculty in New Jersey, where we’d have to figure out which 7 days we weren’t working & not getting...
Tea for textbooks
Yesterday Ken and I had lunch in Harrisburg. That's not terribly unusual, or blog-worthy. But yesterday we were joined by a couple of faculty members from private universities, who were in town and we took the opportunity to have lunch and talk about...
The PASSHE Prevarication
Who exactly is responsible for retrenchment? Is it the state government, whose officials have not adequately funded the state system? Is it PASSHE's Board of Governors who refuse to raise tuition despite evidence that tuition is needed to keep the...
The Election: Perspective from Harrisburg
My first challenge is to talk about this without using the metaphor "changing landscape"... Second, I will try to stick with the "facts" as few papers carry much news about the state legislature races and totals. But let's start with the gubernatorial election....
Retrenchment in the Trenches
I'd love to write some bits of political analysis on what's going to happen with the State House races, but that can wait till another day. Now, retrenchment sits heavy. First, the last two days Ken and I have been in membership meetings at Mansfield and East...
Senseless Retrenchment
The official APSCUF press release, full of quotes, etc, is just out about the latest on retrenchment: six people in three departments at Kutztown have received formal letters terminating their service with the university as of May 2011. HR departments across the...
10 Take-aways from APSCUF/PSEA Labor & Higher Ed Conference
One point of holding a conference like this weekend's APSCUF/PSEA Labor & Higher Ed Conference is to disseminate information. There are many venues to do so, but we thought we'd use this one to provide a snapshot into the conference from our perspective....