by apscuftest | Dec 15, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by apscuftest | Dec 3, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by apscuftest | Nov 30, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
[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. ...
by apscuftest | Nov 24, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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...
by apscuftest | Nov 23, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
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...
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...
