by apscuftest | Nov 5, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
My first challenge is to talk about this without using the metaphor “changing landscape”… Second, I will try to stick with the “facts” as few papers carry much news about the state legislature races and totals. But let’s start with...
by apscuftest | Nov 2, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
I’d love to write some bits of political analysis on what’s going to happen with the State House races, but that can wait till another day. Now, retrenchment sits heavy. First, the last two days Ken and I have been in membership meetings at Mansfield...
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...
by apscuftest | Oct 17, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
One point of holding a conference like this weekend’s APSCUF/PSEA Labor & Higher Ed Conference is to disseminate information. There are many venues to do so, but we thought we’d use this one to provide a snapshot into the conference from our...
by apscuftest | Oct 13, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
A commitment to distance ed is not an appropriate investment in the basics of education, it’s an investment in distance. Let’s transform in a way to retain our core mission & our source of pride & reputation — quality education with access to many....
by apscuftest | Oct 13, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
In this time of economic crisis, we need to think about the future…of the nation and the Commonwealth. Education is a way out of this crisis, because we all know we need educated workers. And we can give them those workers. It makes no sense to have budget...