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 Chris Reese | Nov 21, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Yesterday’s edition of Inside Higher Ed brought a story out of Pennsylvania that is both disheartening and a bit embarrassing. It seems that the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) has announced that it will reduce the teaching load of 200 adjunct faculty –...
by ephyra | Nov 16, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
On November 13, the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Postsecondary Education approved and released its final report and recommendations to create a multi-year framework for higher education in the Commonwealth. APSCUF commends the Commission on many of the 19...
by ephyra | Nov 14, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
On Friday, PASSHE put out this statement about negotiations. Then they sent it to EVERYONE on campus Monday morning, which so happens to be the first day APSCUF was holding a strike authorization vote. It is clearly mere coincidence that they chose that timing to put...
