Slippery Rock University’s Provost Philip Way says that while he intends to abide by the faculty’s Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) he wants to “grease its operational wheels” as a “Third Way” to make deep cuts […]
In an email sent late Friday afternoon to faculty at Kutztown University, local union president Paul Quinn reported that there will be “no new retrenchment” this academic year. This doesn’t exactly mean Kutztown will be […]
Earlier today, administrators at Mansfield University informed the local chapter of the faculty union, APSCUF, that they are planning on cutting approximately 29 of their 170 permanent faculty members – just over 17% of the […]
Community groups, activists, parents, and students with the Philadelphia Coalition Advocating for Public Schools will protest House GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s visit to the Freire Charter School on Monday. Cantor is set to deliver a major […]
We all know that our phone calls are being monitored by the NSA – location, length of call, who we are calling and when. Likewise, our emails are being scanned by the NSA and our […]
Raging Chicken Press has obtained a copy of a draft of a new weapons policy for all the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education universities. Last spring, we broke the story about PASSHE universities quietly […]
PASSHE's Austerity Magic: Save Your Despair for Better Days
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I have a rule when I hear Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) administrators explain the “budget crisis” in the system or at any one of the 14 state-owned universities: the first two reasons […]
Last month Edinboro University’s chapter of the faculty union APSCUF was told that it could expect updates concerning the possibility of retrenchment – that is, the large scale firing of faculty and staff regardless of […]
Editor’s Note: We try our best to provide links to all the sources referenced by our writers. In this article, there are several references to articles published in the Palm Beach Post in 2003 that can […]
Fast food workers in 35 cities around the country are set to go on strike again for $15.00 per hour wages. The latest round of strikes now includes cities in the south and west coast. […]