by ephyra | Aug 13, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Today Inside Higher Ed released a report on Paul Ryan’s views on higher education. Ryan, if you haven’t heard, was picked Saturday by Mitt Romney to be his vice presidential candidate. The takeway from the article: Ryan is in favor of bringing back...
by apscuftest | Aug 9, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
In the past two “statements” from the faculty negotiations team to membership, we have referenced the state “pattern.” After multiple questions about what this is, we thought we’d put this primer out for your information. In June 2011, a week before the expiration of...
by apscuftest | Aug 7, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
The APSCUF and PASSHE negotiations teams were scheduled to meet multiple times this week. However, late last week PASSHE’s chief negotiator informed APSCUF that the System would not offer to the faculty the same economic proposal that Governor Corbett agreed to with...
by Chris Reese | Jul 12, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Harrisburg, Pa – Pennsylvania could lose more than 758,000 votes for the upcoming November election with the passing of the new voter ID law that requires voters to present a photo identification card. Of the acceptable forms of identification, college IDs make the...
by Chris Reese | Jun 29, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Wilkes-Barre, Pa — On Thursday APSCUF Vice-President Ken Mash participated in a public meeting of Gov. Corbett’s post-secondary education commission, addressing the lack of faculty and student representation from the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education on...
by Chris Reese | Jun 28, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Today the PASSHE Board of Governor’s met in their regularly scheduled, quarterly session and the big news is they did NOT move on 2012-13 tuition. Instead, they put that decision off until a newly scheduled July 12th meeting. The highlight of the session that was...
