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Three PASSHE Universities Make Nationwide Value List; Four PASSHE Grads Receive Appointments from Governor Corbett
Three PASSHE universities make list for 100 best values in public colleges nationwide West Chester, Bloomsburg, and Millersville universities are among the 100 best values in public colleges nationwide, according to a report released January 4. The annual list by...
Some Resolve, Please?
Perhaps you missed it over the break, but Penn State's President Graham Spanier authored an Op-Ed piece in the Patriot News, "New Year's Resolution: Keep PA Universities Strong." I have never been envious of my graduate school alma mater, until now. I assure you that...
Season’s Greetings
Regardless of your cultural background, we at State APSCUF wish you and your loved ones a happy holiday and/or a relaxing break, and a Happy New Year. Our thoughts remain always with our colleagues who face retrenchment and with all our fellow citizens who face...
Are we like car companies?
APSCUF members may wonder about the comparison of the title. This idea is not new, to me or to higher education in general. In his Oct. 17 piece for The Chronicle Review (Lazerson), Marvin Lazerson connects the automatic industry, owning a house, and higher...
The Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of PASSHE
Editor’s Note: In 1948 the USSR announced a centralized plan to alter the environment. Like most of the Soviet Union’s grandiose plans, it ultimately failed. Perhaps you’ve seen the Chancellor’s latest on “PASSHE Transformation?” It’s amazing how a document so...
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...