by Kathryn Morton | Mar 14, 2016 | News, Uncategorized
Putting it all on the table: Communism, socialism, old dinosaurs, your 17-hour workweek, struggling universities and supermarkets, APSCUF bashing, per-credit tuition, and more APSCUF live-tweeted this month’s State System budget-appropriations hearings before the...
by Kathryn Morton | Mar 10, 2016 | News, Uncategorized
Grazing students, funding, CBA bashing, your healthcare, release time for APSCUF chapter presidents, diversity hiring, struggling universities, per-credit tuition, and more APSCUF live-tweeted last week’s State System budget-appropriations hearings before the House of...
by Kathryn Morton | Mar 7, 2016 | News, Uncategorized
State employees and contractors under Gov. Tom Wolf’s jurisdiction got good news this afternoon when the governor signed an executive order raising their minimum wage to $10.15 an hour. Gov. Wolf’s 2016-17 budget proposal calls for raising the statewide minimum wage...
by apscuftest | Feb 25, 2016 | News, Uncategorized
Our guest post today is by Dr. Amanda Morris of Kutztown University. Faculty unions are the antidote to the poison of austerity, uncertainty, and fear that has taken hold at many of our universities. If the faculty of Mount St. Mary’s were unionized, the recent...
by Kathryn Morton | Feb 19, 2016 | News, Uncategorized
On behalf of the approximately 5,500 faculty members and coaches employed at Pennsylvania’s 14 publicly owned universities, the Executive Council of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties released the following statement today: APSCUF...
by Kathryn Morton | Feb 15, 2016 | News, Uncategorized
About 500 people filled the Capitol rotunda last week to advocate for fair funding for our 14 state-owned universities. If you weren’t able to attend, you missed a roaring display of unity and activism featuring legislators and State System students, faculty members,...
