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Dear Chancellor: The Issue Is Pride
Dr. John C. Cavanaugh, Chancellor Office of the Chancellor, PASSHE Dixon University Center 2986 North Second Street Harrisburg, PA 17110 October 8, 2012 Dear Chancellor Cavanaugh, The issue is pride, Chancellor. Here’s a story, one […]
PASSHE Board of Governors: Here We Come!
It’s about 3:30 am and I am up preparing for today’s PASSHE Board of Governors meeting in Harrisburg. I am printing out the last faculty letters to the Chancellor that I received late last night, […]
The Industrialization of PASSHE: Where the Public Good, its Students, and its Faculty are Auctioned Off to the Extraction Profiteers (Or: Extortion by Extraction)
1. Pennsylvania Senate Bill 367 and Chancellor Cavanaugh’s Plan to Industrialize Higher Education Dory Hippauf’s “Welcome to PA Frack-U” offers an excellent profile of the Pennsylvania State Senate Bill 367: “an act providing for indigenous mineral […]
You Can Tell A Lot About A College By The Way It Treats Its Adjuncts
To borrow a turn of phrase, you can tell a lot about a college by the way it treats its adjuncts. If you read the PASSHE Negotiation Objectives recently distributed to PASSHE faculty via email […]
Smashing Apples: Shock Doctrine for Public Education – That’s What It’s All About
Editor’s Note: This article inaugurates a new Raging Chicken Press series by the same name: Smashing Apples. This series will focus on the ongoing attacks against public education from kindergarten through higher education both in […]
Rick Smith Files | Steve Hicks, President of APSCUF: “PA Leading the Race to the Bottom in Higher Education.”
Steve Hicks, President of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF): “PA Leading the Race to the Bottom in Higher Education.” Music intro: (Chicago – “Look Away”) [Rick Smith]: Yeah, well, “Look Away” […]
An Open Letter to Governor Corbett
4.2.11 Governor Tom Corbett: After having carefully read and digested your proposal for the Pennsylvania budget of 2011, after having considered the relevant facts concerning the Commonwealth’s fiscal health, the relationship of the state to […]