by apscuftest | Feb 1, 2011 | News, Uncategorized
These are difficult financial times, and this has escaped no one’s notice. Faculty have been hearing this mantra repeatedly on their campuses, local APSCUF leadership is completely aware of this fact, and so is the leadership at State APSCUF. Every...
by apscuftest | Jan 31, 2011 | News, Uncategorized
The Governors of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) adopted new policies at their quarterly meeting on January 19th. The meeting was conducted at PASSHE headquarters in Harrisburg. The finance, administration, and facilities committee proposed...
by apscuftest | Jan 7, 2011 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by apscuftest | Nov 9, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by apscuftest | Oct 22, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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...