As I reported last week, students in the Allentown School District are organizing in the face of what they see as an administration and a state legislature that just doesn’t care about their education or their […]
The story of student debt in Pennsylvania is pretty simple. In 2011, Governor Corbett proposed to cut the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education in half, but an outcry from students, faculty and other stakeholders within […]
Last week, I published a frustrated tirade about the latest social media blunder of East Stroudsburg University’s president Marcia Welsh. As you know, Welsh tweeted out a picture of her posing with a group of […]
Readers of Raging Chicken Press know that the president of East Stroudsburg University, Marcia Welsh, has a bit of an itchy twitter finger. She’s definitely been a stand out in the Pennsylvania State System of […]
Let’s say you are the president of a state university in the wake of deep budget cuts by an austerity-minded legislature and Tea Party governor. Let’s also say that the Chancellor and the Board of […]
Editor’s Note: A slightly earlier version of this post indicated that the Tweet pictured below originated from Marcia Welsh’s account. It did not. She FAVORITED another Tweet. We caught the error shortly after the article first […]
For eleven of the past twelve years, Kutztown University’s president welcomed faculty and staff to the new academic year by preaching the gospel of austerity, budget crisis, and gloom. Despite the evidence showing that Kutztown’s […]
Editor’s note: On November 13, 2013, ESU President Marcia Welsh wrote a Pocono Record Op-Ed responding to growing resistance to her decision to slash faculty and gut academic programs. Welsh claimed that “While the recent decisions made […]
Editor’s note: For all of our coverage of PASSHE layoffs and cuts click here. Follow #slasshe on Twitter for the latest news and resistance. From the moment that East Stroudsburg Normal School opened in 1893 […]
On this special edition of Counterpoint PA, I present footage I took of the October 29 “Believe in ESU” protest against education cuts at East Stroudsburg University right in my hometown. In this special “Believe […]
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